Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research
Front Matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 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 Questionnaire.