VC Learning Event: Learning and Evaluating Within Dynamic Systems (Session Resources)

The related resources below are products of the "Learning and Evaluating Within Dynamic Systems" session of USAID's Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development: A Learning Event.

Session Description:

Given the dynamic nature of value chain development activities, integrating learning into the program cycle is critical to achieving results. Because results can require years, impact evaluation is most useful in the long run to inform best practices going forward. However, integrating learning at the project level requires effective and continuous flows of knowledge throughout the project team, with value chain actors, partners and donors. This session will explore how to integrate learning into programs and projects designed to leverage and transform market systems. Participants will have the opportunity to hear the latest evidence on the impacts of selected value chain projects, discuss how to evaluate these complex programs that have systemic impacts, and identify indicators that can measure the sustainability of systemic change. The session will include updates from USAID’s Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning with respect to the Agency’s plans to strengthen learning throughout the program cycle.