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Flashcards by Regina Rabenhorst, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Regina Rabenhorst
over 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Activity | Carries out an intervention or set of interventions, typically through an award or agreement |
| Adaptive Management | An intentional approach to making decisions and adjustments in response to new information and changes in context |
| Assumptions | The stated conditions, behaviors, and/or critical events outside the control of the strategy, project, or activity that must be in place for results to be achieved |
| Budgets | Key resource inputs into the Program Cycle |
| CDCS | The strategy that defines a Mission’s chosen approach in a country |
| Context Indicator | A means to monitor factors outside the control of USAID that have the potential to achievement of expected results |
| Development Hypothesis | Describes the theory of change, logic, and relationships between the building blocks needed to achieve or contribute to a long-term result |
| Development Objective | The most ambitious result that a Mission, together with its development partners, can contribute through its interventions |
| Development Policy | Grounded in broad USG foreign policy and development priorities and reflects commitment to international frameworks |
| Impact Evaluation | Evaluation that requires a credible and rigorously defined counterfactual to control for factors other than the intervention |
| Intermediate Result | An important result that is seen as an essential contribution to advancing a Development Objective |
| Learning | A continuous process of analyzing a wide variety of information sources and knowledge…and it takes place throughout the Program Cycle |
| Logic Model | A graphic or visual depiction of a theory of change |
| Mechanism | A means of implementing a project or activity to achieve identified results |
| Monitoring | Ongoing and systematic tracking of data or information relevant to strategies, projects, and activities |
| Non-Permissive Environment | Country contexts that are difficult to work in or constrained due to multiple factors |
| Performance Evaluation | The systematic collection and analysis of information about the characteristics and outcomes of strategies, projects, and activities |
| Performance Indicator | A quantifiable measure of a characteristic or condition of people, institutions, systems, or processes that may change over time |
| Program Cycle | USAID’s operational model for planning, delivering, assessing, and adapting development programming to advance US foreign policy |
| Project | A set of complementary activities, over an established timeline and budget, intended to achieve a discrete development result |
| Project Purpose | The highest result to be achieved by a project |
| Results Framework | A visual depiction of the results that USAID, in collaboration with its partners, expects to contribute to or achieve and how they will be achieved |
| Sustainability | The ability of a local system to produce desired outcomes over time |
| Theory of Change | A narrative description, usually accompanied by a visual depiction, of how and why a result is expected to be achieved in a particular context |
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