Resources

USAID strongly emphasizes the importance of capacity development to improve development results by increasing local ownership, sustainability, and partnerships with other local…

USAID’s Center of Excellence in Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) has commissioned a forthcoming edited volume on decentralized governance and accountability. This…

Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plans must include performance indicators and supplemental information about each performance indicator. There is no required…

This ADS 201 Additional Help document provides guidance and best practices on how to disaggregate monitoring indicators, supplementing policy guidance in ADS 201.3.5.6(G). It is…

This How-To Note supplements ADS 201.3.5.7. It provides guidance about how to conduct a Data Quality Assessment (DQA) and promote high quality monitoring indicator data. The…

This guidance is for USAID Staff Only and can only be accessed behind the USAID Firewall. The Performance Plan and Report (PPR) is an annual data call for performance information…

Two infographics from the USAID DRG/L Division on CTIP in Nepal and the V-Dem report.

This cross walk document assists personnel who must complete a USAID Performance Indicator Reference Sheet (PIRS) when working with U.S. standard foreign assistance indicators. The…

The purpose of this Discussion Note is to share practical approaches on how to design USAID activities using co-creation methods. This Discussion Note recognizes that many Missions…

The Evaluation Statement of Work (SOW) Checklist and Review Template helps SOW drafters and peer reviewers to prepare and review the SOW.