Key Technical Resources
Adaptive Management Decision Chart
This job aid will help you determine how best to resolve a challenge/issue in programming. It is intended for use by USAID, partners, and others working in international development.
Applied Political Economy Analysis SOW
There is no perfect SOW. However, each SOW should contain a title that indicates the purpose of the study, a background section that orients the study; a purpose statement; section on the key core and supporting questions that will animate the research; key tasks, activities and deliverables; and, the level of effort of the people involved in the research process, a research timeline is advisable but not imperative at the SOW stage as it is likely to change when the actual process begins
Applied Political Economy Analysis Checklist
What is the purpose of the specific PEA to be conducted, and what are the questions that need to be asked? Is the timing right to feed into design, strategy, planning, reviews or other decisions?
Applied Political Economy Analysis Guide
This guidance provides information on how USAID can think and work in ways that are more politically aware — an approach known as “thinking and working politically” (TWP) — through the use of applied political economy analysis (PEA). PEA is a structured approach to examining power dynamics and economic and social forces that influence development.
Applying Rights-Based Approaches
This guide was prepared by Pact in collaboration with USAID’s Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) under the USAID-funded, Freedom House-led Human Rights Support Mechanism (HRSM). The purpose of the guidance is to help USAID staff understand, adopt, and implement rights-based approaches (RBAs) across a range of sectors.
Applied Political Economy Analysis Guide Annex
This resource provides guidance on the kinds of questions that need to be addressed of the different elements of the USAID Applied PEA Framework.
Security Sector Institution Building Toolkit
Institutions and their capacities drive a sector’s performance. USAID’s extensive experience in institutional reform across sectors from health to education to governance is regularly applied in security sector reform, particularly its rule of law components. USAID’s comprehensive approach to institution building is captured in the Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD) Handbook.
Making Human Rights Campaigns Effective While Limiting Unintended Consequences
This literature review investigates the effects and effectiveness of human rights awareness campaigns. The authors differentiate carefully between effectiveness and effects. “Effectiveness” refers to the degree to which a campaign reaches its intended goal(s) among the target population. “Effects” encompass effectiveness, but also includes the broader set of consequences—unintended and unexpected, perhaps negative—that result from carrying out a campaign.
Maintaining Civic Space in Backsliding Regimes
This essay describes a series of strategies that civil society actors have used to fight back when a previously open civic space begins to shrink due to restrictive legislation, repression of dissent, and/or political violence. It also discusses the risks and downsides of each strategy.
Grassroots Reform in the Global South
This report asks whether, when, and how grassroots reforms in the developing world scale up. It is based on a careful review of approximately 150 peer-reviewed and gray-literature sources in five world regions—East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia, and subSaharan Africa—with an eye toward drawing actionable lessons for international development professionals.
Guide on Gender Integration in DRG Programming
Incorporating gender analysis into USAID’s work in Washington and in the field allows the Agency to identify opportunities to advance gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment and helps to ensure that all of our work takes gender-based differences, constraints, and opportunities into account. Gender analysis is required for strategies and projects, but the scope of analysis will differ depending on the level of focus.
USAID Human Rights Landscape Analysis Tool
The purpose of this resource is to provide USAID personnel with guidance for surveying the human rights landscape as part of their country strategy and project design process. The objective is to understand how fundamental rights and freedoms that are related to USAID’s development goals are being respected, protected, and fulfilled or how they are being violated.
Assessing and Verifying Election Results
This guide provides USAID Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) officers, donors, and other development stakeholders with information about activities designed to analyze, verify, or otherwise assess the credibility and legitimacy of election results.
Field Guide: Helping Prevent Mass Atrocities
This field guide is designed to provide USAID field staff with practical guidance on a range of issues related to preventing and responding to mass atrocities.
Integrating Rule of Law and Global Development: Food Security, Climate Change, and Public Health
This guide is intended to change that view. The promotion of the rule of law, especially when founded on a human rights-based approach, can significantly advance objectives in each of these fields. This guide demonstrates the fundamental connection between rule of law and human rights and food security, public health, and climate change. It makes specific recommendations for rule of law programs and provides case studies that demonstrate the value of legal strategies in each context.
Best Practices in Electoral Security: A Guide for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Programming
The purpose of this Electoral Security Best Practices Guide (Guide) is to provide USAID’s development professionals, as well as electoral assistance and conflict prevention policy-makers and practitioners, with a global over view of best practices in programming to prevent, manage, or mediate electoral conflict and violence.
Tax Administration Reform: A Primer
This document provides an overview of the tax administration reform process. It first describes the tax administration's tasks and operating environment and then discusses a reform strategy, highlighting areas frequently in need of reform and providing case illustrations of successful reform.
People-to-People Peacebuilding: A Program Guide
This guide reflects the centrality of Conflict Management and Mitigation’s (CMM) technical leadership commitment to advancing learning, theory, and practice. Developed in consultation with scholars and practitioners, it provides specific guidelines on the implementation of people-to-people peacebuilding programs for use by USAID and its development partners. These programs, conducted in some of the most difficult and challenging environments, require special care to ensure impact, capture learning and advance a ―Do No Harm‖ approach. These guidelines aim to assist program designers and evaluators in how best to do just that.
Guide to Rule of Law Country Analysis: The Rule of Law Strategic Framework
This document offers accumulated wisdom to USAID democracy and governance (DG) officers and other USAID staff who are developing strategies to address weak or inadequate justice systems. It provides a conceptual framework for analyzing challenges to the rule of law, as well as guidelines for conducting a justice sector assessment and for designing and prioritizing program interventions.
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