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Orientation to IDEAL’s Qualitative M&E Program Improvement Award RFA

Watch Recording View Presentation About the Event IDEAL is inviting organizations engaged in emergency and non-emergency food and nutrition security activities to apply for a Qualitative M&E Program Improvement Award. This RFA is soliciting applications that strengthen the capacity of USAID Title II implementers to incorporate qualitative analysis into monitoring and evaluation. Applications will support the development, testing, packaging, and sharing of processes, systems, and tools to improve qualitative data collection, analysis, and utilization in support of USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance strategy and policy. For each grant, IDEAL will award no more than $100,000 US dollars for up to

The Role of Diet in Early Child Development: Evidence From Nepal

Good nutrition is critical for early childhood development, which has multiple facets including social, cognitive, emotional, and physical development. While stunting in early childhood has been used in the past as a proxy for the measurement of early childhood development, field-friendly tools now exist to directly measure the different facets of early childhood development in low and middle income countries. Join this webinar, hosted by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition, to learn more about the relationship between household and child factors, including diet quality, consumption of animal source foods, and anthropometry, to the early development of young

PCS Capacity Strengthening Support

Pre-Inception Technical Assistance PCS prepares implementing partners to arrive at the Inception Workshop ready to engage in collaborative discussions about key information gaps that affect implementation, and refinement period studies, pilots, and community engagement plans that respond to these information gaps. PCS strengthens partners’ capacity to: Address basic weaknesses in their theory of change (TOC) diagrams. Use the TOC to identify and document information gaps in advance of the Inception Workshop. Take ownership of and lead information gaps discussions at the Inception Workshop. R&I in Action: Information Gap Prioritization Pre-Culmination Technical Assistance PCS prepares implementing partners to arrive at the

PCS Workshop & Events

PCS Workshops & Events Inception Workshop Purpose: To develop a shared understanding between BHA and the RFSA consortia regarding Refine & Implement (R&I) expectations, roles and responsibilities, milestones, and deliverables. PCS facilitates discussions that assist BHA and implementing partners to: Agree on priority refinement period information gaps. Refine refinement period research plans. Understand stakeholder engagement expectations. Explore staff capacity development plans Build working relationships R&I in Action: Information Gap Prioritization Culmination Workshop Purpose: To jointly review the implications of refinement period findings on activity design and implementation plans, and agree on the way forward. PCS facilitates discussions that assist BHA

Protection Mainstreaming in Emergencies During COVID-19

Watch the recording English Presentation French Presentation While emergency food security programs have adapted to ensure continuity of services during COVID-19, challenges remain in assessing the needs of the most vulnerable. As part of IDEAL's COVID-19 Learning Series, this virtual event will focus on understanding the challenges, adaptations, and learning needs related to mainstreaming protection in EFSAs. During the event, participants will discuss: Key challenges faced in mainstreaming protection as EFSAs adapt programming to COVID-19 Adaptations made to mitigate protection concerns related to COVID-19 Capacity gaps and opportunities to improve protection mainstreaming across EFSAs