ADS chapter 202 : achieving

USAID Missions, Regional Platforms, and USAID/Washington Bureaus and Offices should apply these policy directives and required procedures to help ensure that the development results that USAID seeks are obtained in a cost-effective and timely manner, consistent with applicable regulatory and accountability requirements. Achieving with program resources begins after the planning and approval of Assistance Objectives (AOs), projects, or activities and ends with the completion or termination of the AO. However, establishing the basis or environment of the assistance often begins during planning, when team members can negotiate necessary policy and/or institutional reforms, changes, or modifications prior to the expenditure of program funds. Assessing impact and learning from experience takes place concurrently with achieving. New planning may take place when new or modified AOs, projects, and/or activities are identified in the course of achieving. (Author abstract, modified)