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Technical Note on Focus Group Interviews
Focus group interviews (also often called focus group discussions) are a key tool for collecting data to support many USAID activities. This data collection technique is widely used…
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USAID Brazil Data Quality Assessment for Standard Biodiversity Indicators
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis 2017 Data Quality Analysis (DQA) of the Partnership for Conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity (PCAB) Project reports on the quality of data used to measure…
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Discussion Note: Ex-post Evaluations
This Discussion Note outlines key considerations for USAID staff and evaluators when deciding to conduct an ex-post evaluation and then planning for, designing, implementing, and…
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Balancing crisis response with sustainable impact: Seven questions to ensure learning, ethics and accountability amid Covid-19 and beyond
Crises bring many things to light: how prepared you are to respond and adapt quickly, how you apply lessons from past experiences while adopting new practices, how you manage…
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ResilienceLinks: A New Knowledge Platform for Global Resilience
Resilience – the ability to manage through crisis without compromising future wellbeing – is increasingly recognized as an essential part of global development. Droughts, flooding,…
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Annotated Evidence Summary
The Annotated Evidence Summary tells the story of USAID's Development Innovations (DI) program that was implemented in Cambodia by Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI) from…
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Integrating Learning into the Program Cycle: CLA at a Cross-Sectoral Program in Vietnam
Development is measured in statistics; economic growth rates, life expectancy, literacy rates, population growth – to mention just a few – provide an objective assessment of…
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USAID COVID-19 Inequalities and Unintended Outcomes Assessment Report
This assessment identifies inequalities and unintended outcomes—both positive and negative—of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programming that was supported by…
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Using Systematic, Digital Data Collection to Drive Decision Making in Laos
Global development donors are increasingly seeking greater accountability from implementers in the form of data that proves who has been trained, what they were trained on, and how…
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Reflections on Bite-Sized Learning: CLA Paves the Way for Putting Evidence and Learning to Use
As development practitioners, we all strive toward evidence-based decision-making. But we also know there are so many reasons why that is often hard to do. Earlier this month, I was…