DEC Express: Monthly Newsletter

The DEC Express is a monthly newsletter that features materials in the DEC about topics in the news, USAID program evaluations, and recent, popular, and most downloaded documents. The featured document for July 2018 is the Final Evaluation Report of the Victory Against Malnutrition (ViM) project in Burkina Faso. The report presents the findings of the final evaluation of the ViM project, which aimed to reduce malnutrition among children under the age of five in Burkina Faso. The project was implemented from 2013 to 2018 and targeted 15 districts in the country. The report highlights the project's achievements, including a 25% reduction in stunting among children under five years old and a 30% reduction in wasting among children under five years old. The report also identifies challenges faced by the project, including limited access to healthcare services and inadequate nutrition education among caregivers. The DEC Express also features recent additions to the DEC by sector. In the agriculture and food security sector, the baseline study for the Community Development and Licit Opportunities Program (CDLO) was published in October 2018. The study presents the baseline data for the CDLO program, which aims to improve the livelihoods of rural communities in Burkina Faso. In the working in crisis and conflict sector, the mid-term performance evaluation of the Strengthening Community Resilience Against Extremism (SCORE) project was published in May 2019. The evaluation presents the findings of the mid-term assessment of the SCORE project, which aims to strengthen the resilience of communities in conflict-affected areas. The DEC Express also features recent additions to the DEC in the democracy, human rights, and governance sector, the education sector, the economic growth and trade sector, the environment and natural resources sector, the gender equality and women's empowerment sector, the global health sector, and the water and sanitation sector. The most viewed and most downloaded documents on the DEC website include the Final Executive Report on the Healthcare Sector Migration Response Plan and the Emergency Nutrition Response for Drought-Affected Communities in Marsabit County, Kenya. The DEC website provides access to a wide range of documents and materials on USAID program evaluations and recent documents.