The Program Cycle is USAID’s operational model for planning, implementing, assessing, and adapting development programming in a given region or country. The Program Cycle is how policy gets translated into action and how USAID supports countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance.
USAID Learning Lab hosts three toolkits to provide USAID staff and implementing partners with a curated set of resources to plan, implement and integrate monitoring, evaluating and CLA practices into their programs.
Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) is a framework and a set of practices for strengthening organizational learning and the conditions that enable it throughout the Program Cycle to improve our development effectiveness, and support countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance.
For Central American coffee farmers to achieve lasting income gains, there must be greater coordination between numerous stakeholders in the sector, such as cooperatives, exporters, and financial institutions, to support the investments necessary to improve smallholder... read more
USAID/Senegal has a broad government to government (G2G) portfolio. Two of the G2G activities were already evaluated and as USAID/Senegal approached its third G2G evaluation, it wanted to reinforce the relationship between the Government of Senegal (GoS) and USAID/Senegal... read more
The endline evaluation of the Information Communication Technology Challenge (ICT Challenge) Project; a two year project implemented by Grameen Foundation (GF), Digital Green (DG), and Farm Radio International (FRI) from October 2014 to September 2016 was conducted in... read more
Recent DRG Impact Evaluation reports examine:(1) USAID's Ghana Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms (GSAM) project: An impact evaluation of USAID's GSAM project, which aims to increase accountability of local District Assemblies in Ghana, tested the effect of two... read more
Library Resource | Mar 2, 2018 | Technical Resources
In an environment of growing scrutiny of donor-funded development activities, practitioners, including youth practitioners, must show evidence of the broader economic value of investments in workforce development. Using the USAID’s Local Enterprise Value-chain Enhancement (... read more
I'm working as an Evaluation Advisor to IFDC to help them identify a program/database for collecting M&E data company-wide. Would anyone be willing to share which program/database you currently recommend for creating Annual Reports? For example mFarms, or DevResults.com... read more
Over three days in October, leaders in the fields of impact investing, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, social finance, and evaluation will work together in a series of events, culminating in an action agenda for the development of impact... read more
Describe The Approaches Utilized To Measure / Assess This KM Initiative:
the tools adopted were mid-term/final evaluation and impact assessment as well as regular monitoring and observation. This assessment effort was integrated with other organizational metrics. The... read more
To tackle unacceptably low literacy, the government of Uganda has embraced early-grade, mother-tongue reading instruction, coupled with health and school safety interventions. This case focuses on the interplay among performance and impact evaluation (P&IE) activities... read more
During the week of February 29-March 4, USAID mission representatives from Peru, Macedonia, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador teamed up with academics, Impact Evaluation (IE) experts, and USAID/Washington staff to design five new IEs during the third annual Impact... read more