USAID General Publications (English)
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Why is this Guide Necessary? Energy is the driving force behind everything. The word that originally comes from the Greek language (ἐνέργεıα) has found its place in most living languages. It is used in different scientific disciplines, physics, biology, chemistry, technology, economy or in a...
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EnWASH seeks to fill knowledge gaps and improve rural water services. The study covers Northern, Savannah, North-East, Upper-West, and Volta regions, focusing on expanding sustainable piped water systems. EnWASH Study Objectives: Explore the drivers of financial and service delivery performance...
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For over a decade the international development community has been exploring how the use of digital technologies, including tools like the mobile phone, can extend the reach of development. At the same time, development organizations have grappled with how to use these technologies to make their...
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WHO, in partnership with the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has prepared prosthetics and orthotics standards to guide Member States in improving access to high-quality, affordable prosthetics and...- Inapatikana pia katika:
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USAID, March, 2020 The identification of Indigenous Peoples can be challenging. Not all countries in which USAID works recognize the rights, or even the existence of, Indigenous Peoples. This Policy provides USAID’s Missions with a consistent approach to identifying and working with Indigenous...
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USAID, 2023 Education programs and activities that seek to integrate climate change considerations and action should aim to achieve climate-resilient education systems and build climate-resilient learners, while adhering to the USAID Education Policy and identifying meaningful opportunities to...
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USAID, February, 2021 This primer presents an overview of disinformation culture to give readers a sense of key concepts, terminology, select case studies, and programmatic design options. Disinformation is by no means new. Although social media platforms have emerged as the most efficient...
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There are more than 1.3 billion persons with disabilities globally—or approximately 16 percent of the global population—with nearly 80 percent of persons with disabilities living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and 240 million children with disabilities worldwide. In 1997, USAID...
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The Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Assessment Toolkit (MECAT) is a set of tools that guide organizationsthrough a process to assess their current monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity, identify gaps, and plan ways to strengthen their M&E systems. MECAT uses four methods and...
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This volume is the last in a series of papers about systems approaches in complex environments, which includes the use of the collective impact model to address large-scale social problems, and the application of participant-driven MEL techniques across 17 networks of civil society organizations....
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USAID’s work takes place in environments that are often unstable and in transition. Even in more stable contexts, circumstances evolve and may affect programming in unpredictable ways. For its programs to be effective, USAID must be able to adapt in response to changes and new information. The...
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All Title II programs have improvements in food security as their core objective. As defined by USAID, food security has three components - availability, access and utilization.1 Title II programs focus on the access and utilization components. Utilization, in the context of food security, refers...
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Linking monitoring and accountability: This guidance aims to highlight the inherent links between monitoring and accountability. That is, monitoring enables evidence-based decision-making, which contributes to accountable practices. For example, if monitoring activities identify a problem with...
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The Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Assessment Toolkit (MECAT) is a set of tools that guide organizations1 through a process to assess their current monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity, identify gaps, and plan ways to strengthen their M&E systems. MECAT uses four methods and...
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For over a decade, the international development community has been exploring how the use of digital technologies, including tools like the mobile phone, can extend the reach of development. At the same time, development organizations have grappled with how to use these technologies to make their...
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This workbook is a companion to the Qualitative Toolkit: Qualitative Methods for Monitoring Food Security Activities Funded by the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. As you read through the toolkit, there will be activities where you are prompted to write answers in this workbook as well...
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The Bureau for Resilience and Food Security Digital Strategy Action Plan (DSAP) follows the launch of USAID’s Digital Strategy 2020-2024. Our priorities for the Bureau align with the broader objectives of the Digital Strategy, as follows: Improve measurable development and humanitarian assistance...
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The USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Emergency Application Guidelines (EAG) Indicator Handbook is one of the three core documents comprising the EAG, along with the Common Requirements and Sector Requirements. The Indicator Handbook provides the performance indicator reference...
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Countries around the world are in the midst of a historic digital transition. The rapid development and adoption of digital technology are transforming industries, governments, economies, and societies. Digital ecosystems—the stakeholders, systems, and enabling environments that together empower...
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The Modality Decision Tool (MDT) Nutrition Addendum aids implementing partners (IPs) to apply a nutrition lens to the selection of appropriate food assistance modalities (cash, vouchers, or in-kind) for the nutritionally vulnerable. IPs are encouraged to use this addendum alongside the MDT when...
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USAID, 2021 Private-sector engagement is fundamental to our goal to end the need for foreign assistance. This policy is a call to action for staff from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and our partners to embrace market-based approaches as a more-sustainable way to support...
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DQA Fundamentals A DQA is a process to help USAID staff and implementing partners understand the strengths and weaknesses of their data and the extent t o which the data can be trusted to influence management d ecisions. A DQA refers to USAID’s standard practice for assessing data quality,...
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Our (USAID) outreach and external engagements give our congressional stakeholders, oversight partners, aid organizations, and the public timely and relevant information related to our oversight of U.S. foreign assistance programs. We seek to inform stakeholders about our work, coordinate...
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This document provides a set of standards and a manual for implementation to support countries in developing or improving high-quality, affordable prosthetics and orthotics services. It brings promise, by ensuring that everyone in need, everywhere, has access to prostheses and orthoses: that no...- Inapatikana pia katika:
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Despite Vietnam’s dramatic economic transformation into a lower middle-income country, numerous development challenges threaten Vietnam’s continued pace of economic growth and hamper its deeper integration into the global economy. The United States supports a strong, prosperous, and independent...
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By the end of the module you will be able to: Identify the 3 types of evaluation questions. Identify what makes a good evaluation question. Know difference between typical performance evaluation and impact evaluation questions. Break questions down into sub-questions. Use the design matrix as an...
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The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Digital Strategy1 was launched in April 2020 to achieve and sustain open, secure, and inclusive digital ecosystems that contribute to broad-based, measurable development and humanitarian assistance outcomes through the responsible use of...
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This document was created using LinkedIn posts by different consultants. The links to the posts have been added as footnotes on each page. The guidelines provide essential insights on handling Stop Work Orders (SWOs) issued under USAID contracts and cooperative agreements, including best...
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The reverse in progress and the persistently high levels of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in recent years have put the world off track to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Targets2.1 and 2.2 – to end hunger, foodinsecurity and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. Previous editions...
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VISION AND PURPOSE: DEVELOPMENT IN A DIGITAL AGE USAID envisions a world where open, inclusive, secure, and rights-respecting digital ecosystems enable people everywhere to thrive. In today’s digitally connected world, there is a growing recognition that open, inclusive, secure, and...
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The Program Cycle is USAID’s operational model for planning, delivering, assessing, and adapting development programming in a given region or country to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security. It encompasses guidance and procedures for: Making evidence-based strategic decisions at the...
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An Inclusive Development Analysis (IDA) is an analytic tool that assists in the inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented groups in policies and programming. An IDA aims to: Identify marginalized groups in a country; Review the social, economic, political, and cultural factors that lead to...
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This guidance (1) explains the concept of inclusive development and its importance to achieving USAID’s development goals, (2) serves as a framework for applying USAID policies and guidance that promote inclusion of and equity for marginalized and/or underrepresented groups, and (3) provides...
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Mental health encompasses emotional, cognitive, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how humans think, feel, learn, work, make decisions, and build relationships. The importance of mental health to individual well-being, as well as to social and economic progress, is becoming more...
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A description of the USAID Terminated Awards.
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This report covers current conditions as well as changes to the projected outlook for food insecurity in this country. It updates the FEWS NET’s Food Security Outlook, which is published three times per year.
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This publication will covertopics including: What is Crop Diversification? Why Crop Diversification? The Advantages of Crop Diversification A Need for Crop Classification
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Donors, like the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) and implementing partners, rely on evidence collected through robust qualitative and quantitative methods to monitor and evaluate emergency and food security activities—for documentation, learning, decision-making, and adaptive...
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Adaptive management is a way of working that starts with an assumption of uncertainty around how to address a particular challenge. This approach can be useful in complex emergency contexts, particularly for livelihoods and markets programs, yet humanitarian organizations have not embraced...
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The Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Technical and Operational Performance Support Program. 2017. Designing for Behavior Change: A Practical Field Guide. Washington, DC: The Technical and Operational Performance Support Program. The Designing for Behavior Change (DBC) Approach...
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Adaptive management (AM) acknowledges that there is often uncertainty around the best approach for addressing livelihoods challenges. Market systems and emergency contexts (in which markets operate) are constantly changing; adaptive management allows a program to adjust in response to those...
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The FFP Indicator Handbook provides details and guidance for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) indicators. The handbook is intended to be used by potential awardees during the pre-award stage and by successful awardees (also referred to as “...
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20-02-2025 To assess alignment of the US Government’s (USG) foreign assistance with the President’s America First foreign policy, which requires that each dollar of foreign assistance makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous.
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20-03-2024 USAID Simply put, our goal at USAID OIG is to improve U.S. foreign assistance programmed by the agencies we oversee by providing assurances to Congress and the American people that critically important aid dollars are going where intended and having the desired impact. Our oversight work during...
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20-03-2024 USAID, Revised 2024 The Program Cycle is USAID’s operational model for planning, delivering, assessing, and adapting development programming in a given region or country to advance U.S. foreign policy. It encompasses guidance and procedures for: 1) Making strategic decisions at the regional or...
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20-01-2023 The recent conflict in Ukraine is a stark reminder of the links between conflict and food security. Not only has it had a tragic human toll inside the country, but it is also fueling a global food crisis.1 Indeed, the increasing state of global fragility and conflict is a major contributor to...
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20-01-2023 USAID, March, 2023 Since USAID’s founding more than 60 years ago, we have helped tackle many of the challenges of our time. With development partners around the world, we helped lift communities out of poverty, push back against oppression, and secure peace after conflict. We helped spark the...
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20-11-2022 The U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) 2022–2026 calls on the U.S. Government and its implementing partners to foster inclusive agricultural growth for small-scale producers, small- andmedium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and poor households, while increasing access to safe,...
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20-10-2022 USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) has developed this strategic framework to provide guidance to BHA and Agency staff and partners on approaches and programming1 in the areas of early recovery, risk reduction, and resilience (ER4). BHA considers the broad range of activities...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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20-01-2013 This field-tested, six-day curriculum responds to community development managers', program planners' and behavior change officers’ need for a practical behavioral framework that strategically aids them in planning for maximum effectiveness. This curriculum, originally adapted from the Academy of...- Inapatikana pia katika:
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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,...
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20-01-2007 Nina Frankel, Anastasia Gage, Measure Evaluation, Updated 2016 Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is an essential component of any intervention, project, or program. This mini-course covers the basics of program monitoring and evaluation in the context of population, health and nutrition...- Inapatikana pia katika:
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