USAID General Publications

Artificial Intelligence Action Plan - 20/5/2022

USAID, 2022

As AI technologies are embedded and intertwined in digital ecosystems, a responsible approach to AI should include strengthening key aspects of the enabling ecosystem. This includes data systems, connectivity, and local workforce capacity. In addition, there must be a focus on strengthening the civil society structures holding AI systems and actors accountable, and shaping policy environments that in turn encourage open, inclusive, and secure digital ecosystems. Together, these investments will support governments, businesses, and individuals to sustainably and equitably benefit from the use of AI technologies

Technical Guidance for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting for Emergency Activities - 20/2/2022

The mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) is to provide international humanitarian assistance, alleviate suffering, and promote human welfare to the world’s most vulnerable populations through partnership with U.S. or non-U.S. non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including private voluntary organizations (PVOs), and public international organizations (PIOs). Through its emergency awards, BHA provides life-saving humanitarian assistance and disaster risk reduction (DRR) that reduces suffering, and supports the early recovery of populations affected by both acute and protracted emergencies. BHA responds to emergency situations, or complex crises, and seeks to help internally displaced people who have been forced to flee their homes, as well as providing food assistance to refugees who have crossed national borders.

The primary purposes of monitoring, evaluation and reporting for BHA emergency activities are to:
● Fulfill BHA’s obligation to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources; and
● To support adaptive management decisions to achieve the best possible outcomes for beneficiaries.

Community-Led Monitoring Technical Guide - 1/7/2021

Purpose

This guide supports the implementation of EpiC’s comprehensive community-led monitoring (CLM) system, comprised of four components: LINK, Community Scorecard (CSC), Adverse Event Prevention, Monitoring, Investigation, and Response (AEPMIR), and Implementer Security. The guide provides steps and tools for implementation, outlines attributes of each component, and illustrates how the components come together to function as a single monitoring system. Each component can also be implemented on its own. Per the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Country Operational Plan (COP) 2021 guidance, CLM systems are a critical aspect of the PEPFAR programs. All PEPFAR programs are required to develop, support, and fund a CLM system in close collaboration with independent civil society organizations (CSOs) and host country governments. The AEPMIR component helps address some of the PEPFAR requirements for programs implementing index testing.

Introduction

CLM is a system that empowers program beneficiaries, CSOs, and networks to routinely monitor accessibility and quality of HIV services and client satisfaction. As a solution-oriented system, CLM is designed to use this feedback to inform changes and monitor improvements needed to ensure clients—especially members of key populations (KPs), priority populations (PPs), and people living with HIV (PLHIV)—receive optimal client-centered HIV care and services and response to individual concerns they raise if immediate support is required or desired. The main objective of the EpiC CLM system is to empower local communities to monitor and improve the quality of HIV services through the collection and presentation of information. This includes providing feedback on services, proposing and negotiating solutions with health providers and other decision-makers, and monitoring progress toward addressing specific issues.

Diseño para Cambio de Comportamiento en agricultura, manejo de recursos naturales, salud y nutrición - 20/1/2013

Este manual para seis días de entrenamiento ha sido validado en campo y responde a la necesidad que existe entre los Gerentes de Desarrollo Comunitario, Diseñadores de Programas y Oficiales de cambio de comportamiento para tener un marco práctico de referencia del comportamiento que les ayude a planificar sus proyectos de forma estratégica y efectiva.

Este manual se ha adaptado de la herramienta diseñada por la Academy of Educational Development’s BEHAVE –Academia del Desarrollo Educacional- la cual fue desarrollada para convertirse en un manual para salud materno-infantil por el Grupo Social CORE y por el Grupo de trabajo para el cambio de comportamiento, de tal forma que ha sido actualizado y validado extensamente por personal de campo en el área de seguridad alimentaria para que incluya más estudios de caso, historias y ejemplos; clarificaciones de determinantes y factores clave; Análisis de Barreras (aproximación a una práctica de investigación formativa); medio día de trabajo de campo, utilizando investigación formativa; lineamientos para seleccionar actividades apropiadas para el cambio de comportamiento y más.

Household Hunger Scale - Indicator Definition and Measurement Guide - 20/8/2011

Despite long-standing efforts to improve the food security situation of populations globally, food deprivation and its physical consequences remain a continuing problem in resource-poor areas throughout the world. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimated that, in 2010 alone, 925 million people worldwide did not have access to sufficient food to meet their dietary energy requirements.

Arguably, one of the first steps to effectively addressing food insecurity is to establish reliable methods for measuring it. In the absence of reliable measurement, it is not possible to target interventions appropriately, to monitor and evaluate programs and policies, or to generate lessons learned to improve the effectiveness of these efforts in the future.

Fundamentos de monitoreo y evaluación - Cursillo autodirigido - 20/1/2007

Nina Frankel, Anastasia Gage, Measure Evaluation, actualizada 2009

El monitoreo y la evaluación son componentes esenciales en la ejecución de cualquier intervención, proyecto o programa. Este cursillo abarca los fundamentos de monitoreo y evaluación de programas de población, salud y nutrición. Además, incluye definiciones de algunos términos y explica por qué el monitoreo y la evaluación son fundamentales para la gestión de programas.

Al concluir este curso, usted tendrá la capacidad de:

• Identificar los propósitos y alcance básicos del monitoreo y la evaluación
• Distinguir entre las funciones de monitoreo y las funciones de evaluación
• Describir las funciones de un plan de monitoreo y evaluación
• Identificar los principales componentes de un plan de monitoreo y evaluación
• Identificar y distinguir entre marcos conceptuales, marcos de resultados y modelos lógicos
• Describir cómo se utilizan los marcos en la planificación del monitoreo y la evaluación
• Identificar los criterios a aplicar en la selección de indicadores
• Describir cómo se relacionan los indicadores con los marcos
• Identificar los tipos de fuentes de datos
• Describir cómo se puede utilizar información en la toma de decisiones