Fact Sheet: Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) Activity
The Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) activity provides on-demand support services and technical assistance for USAID Missions, Bureaus, and Independent Offices across a wide array of environmental and natural resource management issues.
Reference Sheet: Incorporating Land and Resource Governance into Biodiversity Conservation Programming
This reference sheet is part of a series of materials aimed at USAID Missions and other Operating Units interested in integrating land and resource governance (LRG) into their programming. Each reference sheet in this series briefly outlines existing evidence on the links between LRG and an adjacent development topic—in this case, biodiversity conservation—and provides practical guidance for integrating LRG considerations across the Program Cycle.
Linkages Between Participatory Natural Resource Management and Democratic Outcomes: A Review of the Evidence
It is widely accepted that participatory natural resource management (PNRM) can provide more effective social and ecological outcomes, but no comprehensive assessment has focused on how PNRM affects democratic outcomes more broadly. This systematic evidence review addresses that knowledge gap to answer: 1) What conditions have linked PNRM, positively or negatively, to democratic outcomes? 2) How has PNRM been linked to equity and empowerment? 3) What is the evidence base and where do remaining knowledge gaps exist? The evidence review concludes with lessons learned and implications for future programming.
Impact Evaluation Feasibility Assessment of the USAID/Zambia Eastern Kafue Nature Alliance Activity
The objective of this feasibility assessment (FA) is to assess the possible evaluation options for the Health, Ecosystems, and Agriculture for Resilient Thriving Societies (HEARTH) Eastern Kafue Nature Alliance activity (“Kafue Activity”) in Zambia. The assessment considers design options, including impact evaluation (IE) and performance evaluation (PE), that meet Agency-wide HEARTH and Mission learning interests, with the goal of determining the most rigorous options that can be applied given implementation, resource, and other constraints for this activity.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Agriculture and Land
Indicators, including guidance and Performance Indicator Reference Sheets (PIRS), for HEARTH programs focused on increased agricultural productivity, improved agricultural livelihoods, and better land and resource governance.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Biophysical
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs focused on conserving ecosystems and high-biodiversity landscapes, including both biotic and abiotic components.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Conservation Enterprise (CE) Benefits
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, to assess benefits to individuals directly participating in HEARTH conservation enterprise programs, as well as benefits to the wider community.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Food Security and Nutrition
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs designed to improve food security, diets, and nutrition.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs designed to increase women’s participation in decision-making, reducing gender-based violence, and supporting the inclusion of marginalized populations.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Governance
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs related to improved governance, including community participation, rights/security, resolution mechanisms, and monitoring/enforcement.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Health
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs related to improving access and use of healthcare services, such as family planning services, maternal health services, treatment for children, and other health outcomes.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Conservation Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs designed to raise awareness or otherwise demonstrate the benefits of conservation and natural resource management.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Private Sector Engagement
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs to facilitate measuring the number of USAID engagements with the private sector and the amount of investment leveraged from the private sector.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Resilience
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs designed to increase household resilience to shocks and stresses through various pathways, including increased incomes, access to finance, social capital, and access to natural resources.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Socio-economic Well-being
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs seeking to increase socio-economic well-being through pathways such as employment, participation in a conservation enterprise, greater agricultural productivity, and increased access to finance.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Agriculture and Land (Word Doc)
Indicators, including guidance and Performance Indicator Reference Sheets (PIRS), for HEARTH programs focused on increased agricultural productivity, improved agricultural livelihoods, and better land and resource governance.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Biophysical (Word Doc)
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs focused on conserving ecosystems and high-biodiversity landscapes, including both biotic and abiotic components.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Conservation Enterprise (CE) Benefits (Word Doc)
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, to assess benefits to individuals directly participating in HEARTH conservation enterprise programs, as well as benefits to the wider community.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Food Security and Nutrition (Word Doc)
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs designed to improve food security, diets, and nutrition.
USAID HEARTH Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Gender Equality & Social Inclusion (Word Doc)
Indicators, including guidance and PIRS, for HEARTH programs designed to increase women’s participation in decision-making, reducing gender-based violence, and supporting the inclusion of marginalized populations.
