Key Technical Resources
Responding to Democratic Backsliding: A Practitioners Guide
This guide aims to facilitate democracy support staff decision
making by providing recommendations for responding to instances of democratic backsliding. It compiles current research on how such backsliding occurs and what factors have been observed to prevent further democratic decline. The goal of this guide is to help practitioners identify where they should focus their attention and how limited resources might best be applied given the pattern of democratic backsliding that a country is experiencing.
Responding to Democratic Openings: A Practitioners Guide
This guide aims to facilitate democracy support staff decision making by providing recommendations for responding to democratic openings. The goal of this guide is to help practitioners identify where they should focus their attention and how limited resources might best be applied given the pattern of democratic opening that a country is experiencing.
DRG Evidence Maps across six subsectors
The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation has created six maps (one for each area) and report International Initiative for Impact Evaluations summarizing the findings to provide an overview of the evidence.
Improving Democracy Assistance : Building Knowledge through Evaluations and Research Report
This book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge.
Deepening our Understanding of the Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building
Does USAID’s democracy promotion program work?
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