Monitoring & Evaluation

The Digital Payments in Liberia Bright Spots Case Study

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

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Progress Markers Guide

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

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Shining through Qualitative Rigor: Practical Application Slide Deck

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

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