Resource Type: Guide, manual or tool
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ASPIRES Vulnerability Assessment Handbook for Economic Strengthening Projects
April 2017 — This handbook will assist practitioners and specialists in monitoring and evaluation in the selection of vulnerability assessment approaches for economic strengthening interventions. The focus is on programs for orphans and vulnerable children supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), where economic strengthening is used to increase resilience to…
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Digitizing Worker Salary Payments: A Manual for Ready-made Garment Factories
March 2017 — This manual presents the current state of mobile financial services for garment workers in Bangladesh and the challenges of adopting digitized payments. It covers subjects such as environmental contexts, tips for mitigating challenges, registering accounts and selecting service providers.
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Using Unemployment Insurance Wage Data to Improve Program Employment Outcomes: A Technical Assistance Guide for Community and Technical Colleges
2012 — The National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education — Graduate Employment Outcomes Study developed a guide for college practitioners using unemployment insurance wage data to examine employment and earnings outcomes for students. The guide draws from the experiences gained in conducting the project and suggests practical action steps for colleges to take to negotiate…
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SCALE+ System-wide Collaborative Action for Livelihoods and Environment
This systems methodology helps project managers approach development challenges with multiple perspectives and with stakeholders from multiple sectors, to bring about broad and sustained collective impact. Three fundamental SCALE+ principles are: applying a systems lens, building social capital and facilitating locally driven development.
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The Startup Guide: Your Complete Guide to Registering and Licensing a Small Business in Jordan
October 2016 — The guide helps small business owners in Jordan with the process of registrations and licenses. The document defines the different registration types, steps to formalize a business, where to go and what documents are needed to register, fees and chamber information.
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Checklists for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate Use of the LNG-IUS
January 2017 — The levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) checklist consists of questions designed to rule out pregnancy and identify other medical conditions and high-risk behaviors that would prevent safe LNG-IUS use or require further screening. It also provides guidance and directions based on a client’s responses and a provider’s observations. The English, French and Spanish…
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Pathways to High Adherence: An Adherence Support Manual for Vaginal Ring Trials
September 2016 — The Pathways to High Adherence manual was designed for research teams that are involved in supporting adherence to use of antiretroviral-based vaginal rings in HIV prevention clinical trials. Much of the content is also applicable to clinical trials of other HIV prevention products, such as oral pre-exposure prophylaxis, microbicide gels and vaginal films. This…
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Research Utilization Strategic Planning Tools
2016 — These practical and adaptable tools are intended to support strategic planning for research utilization during study design, stakeholder analysis and systematic tracking of interventions during study implementation. Researchers, program implementers and other decisionmakers can use these tools to apply findings and to scale up successful interventions after study results are known.
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Guidance for Evaluating Integrated Global Development Programs
September 2016 — This comprehensive framework is a guidance document for evaluating multisector, integrated programs. It summarizes current research methodologies and approaches specific to integrated programs to better assess the nuanced nature of complex integrated models. This document includes guidance and key considerations on formative research, performance indicators, program monitoring, process evaluation, cost analyses, impact evaluation and…
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Promoting Evidence-based Vasectomy Programming
May 2016 — Vasectomy is among the most cost-effective and safest family planning methods for meeting the needs of men and women who desire to limit future births, but it is underused in low-resource settings. By promoting and supporting the voluntary use of vasectomy, countries can move toward national family planning goals, decrease service delivery costs and…