Key Technical Resources
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Reference Guide
The idea for creating an online CVE Reference Guide for Local Organizations came directly from civil society organizations implementing projects to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Many of these local organizations in countries affected by violent conflict struggle to access practical, concise, and relevant materials and tools designed specifically for their use and in their primary languages.
DECfinder: Preserving Development Knowledge for the Future
DECfinder gives you access to over 111,000+ curated documents from USAID’s Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) — including evaluations, reports, and project insights from decades of U.S. development work around the world.
Collaborating, learning, and adapting informed by evidence (CLAIRE)
This study seeks to understand how USAID and its partners conduct CLA and to generate lessons for how it can improve CLA going forward. In particular, it employs a qualitative research methodology to explore the role of evidence in the CLA process and to disprove or validate the following hypothesis: IF monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) is planned and used to inform CLA, THEN adaptations are more likely to lead to program outcomes.
Election Management Assistance Donor Guide
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provides assistance to election management bodies (EMBs) as a core component of its electoral assistance and broader Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) programming. This guide provides a brief overview of election management assistance and offers strategic considerations and programming options for USAID and other donor agencies. While the primary audience of this guide is USAID staff, its content may be useful to other donors and other audiences.
Impact of Investing in Cities and Local Governments
The Making Cities Work (MCW) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract (2014-2024) issued 18 task orders (TOs) for urban governance work, totaling over $500 million. MCW aims to provide access to short- and long-term technical services, training, and capacity-strengthening in areas related to improving urban and local governance.
Tools for asking better evaluation questions
The purpose of this research is to systematically explore the common challenges of developing quality DRG PE questions and to develop guidance for USAID staff to maximize the utility of PE questions.
Electoral Assistance After Action Review Methodology
This EA3 review methodology provides a standardized methodology for post-election assessments to ensure consistency and improve learning from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) worldwide support of elections and political processes. This manual provides guidance to assessment teams conducting in-country reviews after an electoral process, outlining key areas of inquiry and research questions.
USAID Guiding Principles for Electoral Assistance
USAID’s Guiding Principles for Electoral Assistance are intended to enhance USAID’s support for democratic elections and political processes globally.
Measuring Local Capacity Strengthening in USAID/DRG Programming Using CBLD-9
This brief provides guidance for USAID Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) stakeholders in applying Capacity Building indicator (CBLD) -9 to measure the impact of their local capacity strengthening (LCS) programming. In line with the LCS Policy, measuring results is essential for understanding LCS program effectiveness and making improvements for the future. This guidance helps DRG stakeholders to think creatively about how to measure performance of LCS activities, transcending the often used approach of tracking internal organizational processes or other procedural improvements.
Addressing Pain Points in Qualitative Research
This guidance includes minimum standards to which all studies should adhere, good practices that studies should seek to implement when feasible, and guidance for study commissioners.
Women’s Political Participation and Leadership Assessment Framework
To encourage gender-inclusive programming in the Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) sector, USAID developed a toolkit for DRG staff to integrate gender into programming and advance gender equality in civil society and government institutions.
VCA Full Framework
USAID’s Violence and Conflict Assessment (VCA) is a tool to assist USAID Missions, U.S. government counterparts, and partners to better understand, address, and navigate the pervasive challenges of armed conflict and violence.
VCA Analytical Framework Brief
The Violence and Conflict Assessment (VCA) is a structured analytical approach to help USAID and our partners better navigate the challenges of working in conflict and violence affected situations.
Trauma Informed Approaches Toolkit
A trauma-informed approach (TIA) to international development recognizes and addresses the potential for trauma and its effects on individuals and communities within development programs, ensuring that interventions are sensitive and responsive to any potentially existing trauma.
Women’s Political Participation and Leadership Final Report — Kenya Assessment
This report discusses the results of the Kenya WPPL Assessment. These results are intended to guide the program strategies, activity design, and allocation of resources aimed at advancing WPPL in Kenya.
Lessons in Locally Led Development: USAID/DRG's Shifting Approach to Governance
USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance’s (USAID/DRG) long-term emphasis on locally led development has allowed staff from across its subsectors to learn a number of lessons on how to more effectively operationalize this practice over the years. Indeed, the nature of the work undertaken by the DRG Bureau makes locally-led development inextricably linked to much of its programming.
Women’s Political Participation and Leadership Final Report — Columbia Assessment
This report discusses the results of the Colombia WPPL Assessment. These results are intended to guide the program strategies, activity design, and allocation of resources aimed at advancing WPPL in Colombia.
Inclusive Development Analysis
An Inclusive Development Analysis (IDA) is an analytic tool that assists in the inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented groups in policies and programming.
Lessons in Locally Led Development: USAID/DRG's Shifting Approach to Rule of Law
USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance’s (USAID/DRG) long-term emphasis on locally led development has allowed staff from across its subsectors to learn a number of lessons on how to more effectively operationalize this practice over the years. Indeed, the nature of the work undertaken by the DRG Bureau makes locally-led development inextricably linked to much of its programming. This document profiles some of the changes implemented by USAID/DRG’s Rule of Law subsector in response to these lessons. It should be noted that the lessons learned highlighted in this document should not be viewed as set in stone, keeping in mind that improving development programming is an ongoing process.
Lessons in Locally Led Development: USAID/DRG's Shifting Approach to Civil Society
USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance’s (USAID/DRG) longterm emphasis on locally led development has allowed staff from across its subsectors to learn a number of lessons on how to more effectively operationalize this practice over the years.
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