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Learning from Evaluations
Understanding the importance of evaluations to learn about development effectiveness is critical to USAID and its partners as it promotes learning and adapting across the agency…
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Are We Learning From Evaluations?
I recently returned from Kampala where I attended the third annual Uganda Evaluation Week. This year’s theme was “Quality Evaluations for Accountable Service Delivery.”…
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Knowledge Value Chain© Approach to Evaluation Utilization
The Knowledge Value Chain©, by Timothy W. Powell can be an effective approach toward building a culture of using evaluations. I decided to introduce the Knowledge Value Chain© in a…
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Microlinks Seminar Series: Show Me the Data: Evidence & Experience on SMEs
Donors and governments around the world looking to boost inclusive growth have focused on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for their employment and innovation potential. In the…
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Sustaining Development: Results from an Ex-Post Evaluation Among Food for Peace Development Food Assistance Projects
USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP), Local Systems Community, and the Evaluation Interest Group (EIG) hosted a presentation of key findings and recommendations from the FFP…
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Evaluation Design Matrix Templates
The evaluation design matrix is an essential tool for planning and organizing an evaluation. It is simply a table with one row for each evaluation question and columns that…
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Choosing Between Internal and External Evaluations
The purpose of this guidance document is to provide USAID staff in the Missions and at Headquarters with guidance on choosing whether to conduct an internal or external evaluation…
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Submitting a USAID Evaluation to the Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)
This document provides detailed instructions for USAID staff on how to submit an evaluation to the DEC. Non-USAID staff members accessing the DEC’s public website are required to…
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Conducting an Evaluability Assessment for USAID evaluations
This Evaluation Resource offers guidance on what an evaluability assessment is, when to conduct an evaluability assessment, and what steps to take to complete an evaluability…
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Evaluation Statement of Work (SOW) Peer Review Process
This document provides guidance on good practices and issues to consider when conducting the required peer review of an Evaluation Statement of Work. This resource is for use…