USAID Evaluation, Research & Communications

The purpose of this USAID project was to create, expand, and communicate evidence-based knowledge around best land tenure and property rights (LTPR) practices to enhance internal USAID and external U.S. Government (USG) learning and guide program design and implementation.

The ERC project consisted of five tasks: Impact Evaluations, Research, Communications, Training, and Implementation of Pilot Activities. ERC also supported biodiversity conservation through collection and dissemination of evidence-based knowledge on how secure land tenure and property rights can incentivize sustainable land use and protection of valuable ecosystems including the forest, water and wildlife within them.

Impact & Performance Evaluations

Under ERC, I worked on various impact and performance evaluations of USAID land tenure projects across the globe. As part of the evaluation process we designed quantitative and qualitative survey instruments including household surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and stakeholder surveys. Our evaluations collected information about land tenure and property rights, conflict, governance, community forestry, knowledge and capacity building and many other topics of interest. We also always had data by disaggregated by youth and gender in order to understand unique impacts on women or youth issues. After coordinating the data collection process in country, we do an analysis of our quantitive and qualitative data and compile our findings and recommendations into policy relevant reports for USAID. All of the evaluations were in different stages (baseline, midline, endline etc).

I supported the integration of geospatial analysis in our evaluations, developed survey and qualitative protocols, innovated creative knowledge dissemination methods to share our data and findings.

Evaluations

Land Administration To Nurture Development (LAND) – Ethiopia

Community Forestry Project (CFP) – Zambia

Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC) – Zambia

Community Land Protection Program (CLPP)- Liberia