Program Cycle Lexicon Flash Cards

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IPC Flashcards on Program Cycle Lexicon Flash Cards, created by Regina Rabenhorst on 27/05/2020.
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Activity Carries out an intervention or set of interventions, typically through an award or agreement
Adaptive Management An intentional approach to making decisions and adjustments in response to new information and changes in context
Assumptions The stated conditions, behaviors, and/or critical events outside the control of the strategy, project, or activity that must be in place for results to be achieved
Budgets Key resource inputs into the Program Cycle
CDCS The strategy that defines a Mission’s chosen approach in a country
Context Indicator A means to monitor factors outside the control of USAID that have the potential to achievement of expected results
Development Hypothesis Describes the theory of change, logic, and relationships between the building blocks needed to achieve or contribute to a long-term result
Development Objective The most ambitious result that a Mission, together with its development partners, can contribute through its interventions
Development Policy Grounded in broad USG foreign policy and development priorities and reflects commitment to international frameworks
Impact Evaluation Evaluation that requires a credible and rigorously defined counterfactual to control for factors other than the intervention
Intermediate Result An important result that is seen as an essential contribution to advancing a Development Objective
Learning A continuous process of analyzing a wide variety of information sources and knowledge…and it takes place throughout the Program Cycle
Logic Model A graphic or visual depiction of a theory of change
Mechanism A means of implementing a project or activity to achieve identified results
Monitoring Ongoing and systematic tracking of data or information relevant to strategies, projects, and activities
Non-Permissive Environment Country contexts that are difficult to work in or constrained due to multiple factors
Performance Evaluation The systematic collection and analysis of information about the characteristics and outcomes of strategies, projects, and activities
Performance Indicator A quantifiable measure of a characteristic or condition of people, institutions, systems, or processes that may change over time
Program Cycle USAID’s operational model for planning, delivering, assessing, and adapting development programming to advance US foreign policy
Project A set of complementary activities, over an established timeline and budget, intended to achieve a discrete development result
Project Purpose The highest result to be achieved by a project
Results Framework A visual depiction of the results that USAID, in collaboration with its partners, expects to contribute to or achieve and how they will be achieved
Sustainability The ability of a local system to produce desired outcomes over time
Theory of Change A narrative description, usually accompanied by a visual depiction, of how and why a result is expected to be achieved in a particular context
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