Local Works Facilitation Guide: Assumptions and Learning Questions

This resource, originally developed for the Local Works program but can be used by anyone, supports coaching new and local partners through USAID monitoring, evaluation, and learning planning. This facilitation guide and template is intended to identify learning questions to guide strategy, program, or activity design. It draws from assumptions in an initial (implicit or explicit) theory of change to identify unknowns, then move from those unknowns to learning questions. It includes two parts, and is recommended to be conducted in two separate sessions to provide time for facilitator work between sessions.