USAID ILRG MEL Plan

The primary objective of the ILRG task order is to assist the Land and Urban Office in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment (E3/LU) to design and implement activities that achieve this goal. The ILRG task order is currently designed to implement activities in Mexico, Mozambique, and Zambia under the term portion of the contract, with other activities expected to be added via completion tasks. As of October 2018, engagement in Mexico is uncertain, and a completion task has been identified and funds obligated for work in Ghana. The task order is expected to contribute to the following four broad objectives that assist in ending extreme poverty: increasing inclusive economic growth, resilience, and food security; providing a critical foundation for sustainable natural resource management and biodiversity conservation; promoting good governance, conflict mitigation, and disaster mitigation and relief; and empowering women and other vulnerable populations. To achieve the task order's objective and associated results, Tetra Tech will work collaboratively with E3/LU and USAID missions and operating units to engage host country governments, civil society, academia, communities, and businesses through four interrelated components. The components include supporting the development of inclusive land and property rights laws and policies; assisting law and policy implementation, including clarifying, documenting, registering, and administering rights to land and resources; supporting the capacity of local institutions to administer and secure equitable land and resource governance; and facilitating responsible land-based investment that creates optimized outcomes for communities, investors, and the public. The ILRG team will achieve these results via methodologies and approaches that similarly support positive results related to preventing and mitigating conflict, countering violent extremism, achieving women's economic empowerment, promoting inclusive economic growth, increasing agricultural productivity and food security, encouraging biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resources management, and becoming more resilient to extreme weather events. The results framework shows how ILRG proposed to use a unique package of interventions in each country to contribute to the specific country's Development Objectives (DOs) in addition to the overall project goal. The ILRG task order will work with grantees to address relevant components under each task, and the team will engage in collaborative learning and adaptive management to ensure that the activities are effective and efficient. The ILRG Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plan outlines the approach for monitoring and evaluating the task order's progress and outcomes, including the use of performance indicators, cross-cutting components, and data quality assessments. The MEL Plan also outlines the approach for learning and adaptive management, including the use of adaptive management and learning questions to inform the task order's activities and ensure that they are responsive to changing circumstances. The plan includes a list of acronyms and a table of contents, and it provides a detailed overview of the ILRG task order's objectives, components, and methodologies. The ILRG task order is expected to have a significant impact on the lives of people in the countries where it is implemented, particularly in terms of improving land and resource governance, strengthening property rights, and building resilient livelihoods. The task order's focus on inclusive economic growth, resilience, and food security, as well as its emphasis on promoting good governance, conflict mitigation, and disaster mitigation and relief, make it an important contribution to the broader efforts to end extreme poverty.