Commissioned by USAID and published in 2019, the Implementing Developmental Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Evaluators and Administrators serves as a How-To reference for those trying to navigate the dynamics and complexities of implementing Developmental Evaluations (DEs). Co-written by Headlight’s CEO Rebecca Herrington along with staff at Search For Common Ground; Social Impact, Inc.; The
The Digital Finance team has initiated an annual effort to identify models or examples of digital finance support at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that demonstrate development outcomes catalyzed by digital finance, improved service delivery, and lessons learned for replication and scale. In partnership with USAID’s Digital Finance (DFS) Team, Headlight co-implemented
The Digital Finance team has initiated an annual effort to identify models or examples of digital finance support at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that demonstrate development outcomes catalyzed by digital finance, improved service delivery, and lessons learned for replication and scale. In partnership with USAID’s Digital Finance (DFS) Team, Headlight co-implemented
The Progress Markers Facilitation Guide provides instructions and helpful tips on conducting an exercise to identify progress markers for any program or activity where the results occur in the medium to long-term, but where there is a need to track and report on efforts in the short-term. A progress marker is any smaller anticipated action
In this slide deck from the American Evaluation Association’s 2020 Virtual Conference, Headlight’s CEO and Director of Strategic Learning, Rebecca Herrington, shared action-oriented best practices around a commonly critiqued challenge with qualitative evaluation work: rigor. As researchers and evaluators work to monitor, evaluate, and learn from work in the field, we often collect qualitative data
Pause & Reflect Workshops are a tried and true approach to support learning, adaptive management, and strategic planning. In USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Framework, Pause & Reflect falls as a sub-component under the Adapting sphere with the goal of getting a team to step back and reflect on what they have learned as
