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Learning Evaluations Analysis Project (LEAP)

The LEAP award will support continued delivery of learning, evaluation, and analysis services of economic growth programming, including of the Agency's priority Feed the Future initiative. These services are required to enable the Agency to monitor key results and analyze projected impacts from hundreds of millions of dollars of planned investments to promote economic growth in USAID recipient countries.

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. Encourage and help countries to apply sustainable and efficient fiscal policies, which consist of establishing revenue and expenditure structures and develop management techniques that allow a government to manage the economy through the expansion and contraction of government spending.

Project ID

US-GOV-1-LR-AID-OAA-C-11-00169

Activity status

3 - Completion

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

Optimal Research Group

CRS code	%
Unknown (0)	100.0