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Improving Democracy Assistance - Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research (Paperback, New)
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Improving Democracy Assistance - Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research (Paperback, New)
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Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the
spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important
element of its national security policy. These efforts have created
a growing demand to find the most effective means to assist in
building and strengthening democratic governance under varied
conditions. Since 1990, the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) has supported democracy and governance (DG)
programs in approximately 120 countries and territories, spending
an estimated total of $8.47 billion (in constant 2000 U.S. dollars)
between 1990 and 2005. Despite these substantial expenditures, our
understanding of the actual impacts of USAID DG assistance on
progress toward democracy remains limited-and is the subject of
much current debate in the policy and scholarly communities. This
book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to
enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does
not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved
monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal
capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge. Table of
Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Democracy Assistance and USAID 2
Evaluation in USAID DG Programs: Current Practices and Problems 3
Measuring Democracy 4 Learning from the Past: Using Case Studies of
Democratic Transitions to Inform Democracy Assistance 5
Methodologies of Impact Evaluation 6 Implementing Impact
Evaluations in the Field 7 Additional Impact Evaluation Designs and
Essential Tools for Better Project Evaluations 8 Creating the
Conditions for Conducting High-Quality Evaluations of Democracy
Assistance Programs and Enhancing Organizational Learning 9 An
Evaluation Initiative to Support Learning the Impact of USAID's
Democracy and Governance Programs Glossary Appendixes Appendix A:
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members Appendix B: Committee
Meetings and Participants Appendix C: Measuring Democracy Appendix
D: Understanding Democratic Transitions and Consolidation from Case
Studies: Lessons for Democracy Assistance Appendix E: Field Visit
Summary Report Appendix F: Voices from the Field: Model
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