Tag: usaid
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Survey Stuff: The Feed the Future Population-Based Survey Toolkit
Alas people, tomorrow is the date when the vast majority of USAID personnel, with the exception of a handful of admin and other staff, officially depart the agency, and a few short weeks later the agency will be formally laid to rest. So today, I wanted to take a moment and highlight the amazing work…
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New Metrics: Influencing and Leveraging in USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative
Today I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the work we were doing at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In the last few years, I had the privilege of creating new metrics to measure the impact of the U.S. government’s flagship initiative, Feed the Future (FTF), designed to reduce hunger,…
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Survey Stuff: Validating Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Surveys ask us to answer all sorts of questions. Sometimes they ask us about facts such as our age, income, racial or gender identity. Other times they ask us about opinions such as what we think about human rights, democracy, specific issues, etc. And then again surveys might ask us about behaviors — did we…
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