DEC Express I May 2023

The DEC Express is a monthly newsletter that features materials on topics in the news, USAID program evaluations, and recent, popular, and most downloaded documents. The newsletter highlights the DEC's capabilities in searching a half-century of U.S. international aid records. The featured document for this month is the Mali girls leadership and empowerment through education midline report, a special evaluation conducted in March 2021. This report focuses on the impact of a girls' leadership and empowerment program in Mali, which aims to improve girls' education and leadership skills. The program is part of the Feed the Future initiative, a U.S. government global hunger and food security initiative. The report highlights the program's achievements, including increased girls' enrollment in school and improved leadership skills among girls. The evaluation also identifies challenges faced by the program, such as limited resources and infrastructure constraints. The report provides recommendations for improving the program's effectiveness and sustainability. In addition to the featured document, the DEC Express highlights other recent and popular documents, including the Feed the Future livestock programming 2021 performance review, the DRG learning, evaluation, and research (DRG-LER) II activity: Zimbabwe youth political attitudes and behavior assessment, and the Colombia equitable finance project activity monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan (AMELP). These documents cover a range of topics, including agriculture and food security, democracy and governance, economic growth and trade, gender and women's empowerment, and global health. The DEC Express also features a collection of documents on various topics, including agriculture and food security, democracy and governance, economic growth and trade, gender and women's empowerment, and global health. These collections provide a comprehensive overview of USAID's work in these areas and offer insights into the agency's development programs and initiatives. USAID Data Services provides access to a wealth of information on international development, including program evaluations, research studies, and technical reports. The DEC Express is a valuable resource for development practitioners, researchers, and policymakers who seek to understand the impact of USAID's development programs and initiatives.