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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Operationalizing Adaptive Management: What it takes. Why it matters.
Development actors increasingly agree that managing programs adaptively – especially complex interventions – can improve their effectiveness. A growing body of evidence supports…
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USAID Evaluation Policy: Year One
This report summarizes evaluation requirements and practices at USAID before and after the Evaluation Policy, major accomplishments during the first year of implementation, and…
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FAQs on the Evaluation Toolkit
This document provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the Evaluation Toolkit released in September 2015 and updated in September 2016. For example:
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Webinar: Reform Strategies for Development Professionals: How to Plan for and Measure Change in Complex Systems
Development practitioners have increasingly realized the value of learning by doing and of incorporating flexibility into program design. These adaptive approaches have particular…
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Saving Lives Through Continuing Education: Supporting Nigeria’s Medical Laboratory Scientists
Medical laboratory science has been called "the hidden profession that saves lives." Medical laboratory scientists (MLS) are scientific investigators, analyzing bodily fluids and…
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Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting to Develop the Bangladesh Dairy Sector
The USAID-facilitated Bangladesh Livestock Coordination group consists of seven livestock projects funded by seven different donor agencies whose purpose is to improve the…
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Adapting Global Content to Improve the Knowledge of Ghana’s Rural Nurses
The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project, supported by USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, collaborated with Ghana Health Service and Grameen Foundation under…
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Webinar: Good Practices for Peer Reviews of Evaluation SOWs
This webinar featured PPL, regional, and technical bureau representatives who have participated and led evaluation statement of work (SOW) peer reviews. They discussed good…
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Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) Inception Report
GKI takes a challenge-focused approach across programs. This aligns with USAID’s CLA objectives, and can snap temporally to the USAID Program Cycle. GKI’s Context-Collaboration…
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The 5Rs Framework in the Program Cycle
A key principle of USAID’s Program Cycle is to “Promote Sustainability through Local Ownership.” The purpose of this Technical Note is to describe the “5Rs Framework”, a practical…