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InProgress: Integrated Monitoring: A Practical Manual for Organisations That Want to Achieve Results [Outcome Mapping]
Written for non-profits, implementing partners can use this to support their monitoring, while USAID can use it for learning about their programs through monitoring CDCS/CLA. The…
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Gender Equality Impact: The Value of Organization-wide Reflection
CARE Tipping Point Bangladesh participant, and college student, Sumaiya and her family.
Photo: Mohammad Hasan ZobayerWe know that when…
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How-To Note: Prepare and Maintain a Performance Management Plan (PMP)
A Performance Management Plan (PMP) is a Mission-wide tool for planning and managing the process of (1) monitoring strategic progress, project performance, programmatic assumptions,…
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How-To Note: Strategy-Level Portfolio Review
Portfolio reviews are opportunities for Missions to periodically examine designated aspects of the Mission’s strategy, projects, or activities. Per ADS 201.3.2.18, Missions must…
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Discussion Note: Adaptive Management
This Discussion Note complements ADS 201.3.1.2 Program Cycle Principles by elaborating on Principle 2: Manage Adaptively through Continuous Learning. This Discussion Note is…
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How do you do "Adaptive Programming?" Two Examples of Practical Experience Help with Some of the Answers
This post originally appeared on Oxfam's From Poverty to Power blog on September 13, 2016.At a glance the two DFID programmes we work on are very different. SAVI (and its successor…
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Adaptive Management: Thoughts About USAID's Evolving Program Cycle (webinar recording)
We have learned a lot in the four years since USAID’s Program Cycle reforms were introduced. While the core elements of the Program Cycle - strategic planning, project design,…
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Thinking and Working Politically (TWP) through Applied Political Economy Analysis (PEA): Core Resource Documents
Thinking and Working Politically: A Guide for Practitioners provides an overview of the process and methodology for applied PEA in use within USAID, and guidance on how PEA can…
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Managing Adaptively: It’s About the People! Reflections from MTN 2018
There were so many good sessions at this year’s Moving the Needle event that I know people had a hard time choosing, but those who joined us in one or both of the ‘Managing…
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Advancing Work with the Grain at USAID
In December 2017, I wrote a blog about some of the insights gained during a workshop on Context-Driven Adaptation, where many of our sharpest field officers shared the ways that…