USAID General Publications

Artificial Intelligence Action Plan - 20/05/2022

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 - 20/02/2022

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 - 01/07/2021

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.

Elaboration d’une Stratégie de Changement de Comportement Pour l’Agriculture, la Gestion des Ressources Naturelles, la Santé et la Nutrition - 20/01/2013

Le curriculum « Elaboration d'une Stratégie de Changement de Comportement » a été élaboré par le groupe de travail pour le changement social et du comportement du CORE group et fût plus tard modifié pour adresser les besoins d'autres secteurs par les membres de l’équipe de travail sur le changement social et du Comportement du réseau de sécurité alimentaire et de la nutrition (Food Security and Nutrition Network).

Le programme Soutien à la Performance Technique et Opérationnelle (TOPS) a été rendu possible grâce au soutien généreux et grâce à et la contribution du peuple américain pour le développement international (USAID). Le contenu de ce curriculum ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues de l'USAID ou du gouvernement des Etats-Unis.

Household Hunger Scale - Indicator Definition and Measurement Guide - 20/08/2011

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.

Eléments de Base du SuiviEvaluation (S&E) - Autoguid - 20/01/2007

Nina Frankel, Anastasia Gage, Measure Evaluation, actualisé 2009

Le suivi et évaluation (S&E) est un volet essentiel de toute intervention, tout projet ou programme. Ce mini-cours, qui s'inscrit dans cette logique, traite des fondamentaux du suivi et évaluation de programme dans le cadre des programmes pour les populations, des programmes de santé et de nutrition. Il définit également les termes usuels et indique pourquoi le S&E est essentiel pour la gestion des programmes.

Au terme de ce cours, vous serez à même de :

• identifier les objectifs de base et l'étendue du S&E ;
• différencier les fonctions de suivi des fonctions d'évaluation ;
• indiquer les fonctions d'un plan de S&E ;
• identifier les principales composantes d'un plan de S&E ;
• identifier et faire la distinction entre les cadres conceptuels, les cadres de résultats et les modèles logiques ;
• décrire comment les cadres sont utilisés aux fins de la planification du S&E ;
• identifier les critères de sélection des indicateurs ;
• décrire comment les indicateurs sont liés aux cadres ;
• identifier les types de sources de données ;
• décrire comment les informations peuvent informer la prise de décision.