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Liberia Strategic Analysis

The Liberia Strategic Analysis (LSA) will provide analytical services to USAID/Liberia's Office of Program and Project Development (PPD) and Development Objective (DO) teams in support of the Mission's project design, performance monitoring and evaluation, and operational learning and adapting functions. A top strategic priority for the Mission is to ensure that all its programmatic activities are grounded in a deep and nuanced understanding of Liberia's geography, climate, historical experience, culture, values, political economy, social capital, and human institutional capacity. LSA is aimed to help accomplish this strategic mission priority.

This program area covers components of program design and performance management and learning. This area supports assessment, special studies and analysis, strategic planning, program and project design, program monitoring (to include baseline studies and other data collection needs) and activities that support learning, knowledge transfer and adaptation of projects. Assessment includes the examination of the state of a country or sector context to inform project design but does not include evaluation of USG-funded activities (please see Program Area PO.3 for a definition of evaluation). Special studies or analysis could support strategic or project planning or include research for general learning that is not necessarily related to the performance of USG-funded activities. This program area may also include the preparation of strategic plans and other short-term programming tasks, assessment of the potential of information and communication technologies to enhance performance throughout the program cycle or dissemination of best practices and lessons learned. Evaluation is the systematic collection and analysis of information about the characteristics and outcomes of programs and projects as a basis for judgments, to improve effectiveness and inform decisions about current and future programming. Evaluations are distinct from (a) needs assessments, which are designed to examine country or sector context to inform project design, (b) internal informal reviews of projects and (c) audits (conducted either internally or by an external audience). Such efforts should not be included in PO.3. However, evaluability assessments -- those assessments completed with the purpose of determining whether or not an evaluation of an activity can be conducted -- should be included in PO.3. This program area should include all evaluations designed and funded with foreign assistance funding, including the components of contracts with task orders for evaluations (regardless of the mechanism). It should also include all independent contractors hired solely to produce an evaluation(s); all other contractors (e.g., those whose job responsibilities may include support or management of evaluation but not the production of an evaluation as a deliverable) should be placed in PO.2. Support the development of effective, legitimate, and democratically accountable civilian security institutions, to include those governing law enforcement. Illustrative activities include the following: ministerial reform; national security planning, policy, and budget formulation; training, advising and educating security sector personnel; support for formal (legislative, judicial) and informal (civil society, media) oversight of the security sector. Support for non-civilian activities to strengthen military capabilities should be captured under PS.8.2.

Project ID

US-GOV-1-LR-AID-669-C-16-00002

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

C01 - Project-type interventions

% to Liberia

100.00

Organisations

Accountable

U.S. Agency for International Development

Extending

U.S. Agency for International Development

Funding

U.S. Agency for International Development

Implementing

Social Impact, Inc.

CRS code	%
STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040)	1.8
Agricultural policy and administrative management (31110)	5.5
Public sector policy and administrative management (15110)	0.03
Population policy and administrative management (13010)	5.38
Multisector aid (43010)	87.28