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Liberia Strategic Analysis (LSA) (LGSA)

The meta-evaluation synthesizes 31 evaluations and assessments that were conducted between 2016 and 2020. DEC abstract (PA-00W-S5P)

Name source: not recorded for this programScope: country, LiberiaKind: program

Key awd:669-C-16-00002

Review evidence

89 facts shown; 0 unconfirmed links; 0 support mechanisms (not programs); 50 documents cite this program.

The one-paragraph answer: years, implementer, funder and purpose, each from document metadata.

The meta-evaluation synthesizes 31 evaluations and assessments that were conducted between 2016 and 2020. These reports evaluate $464 million USD in investment by USAID/Liberia and review the context and activities of seven major sectors and 20 subsectors.<br /><br />As a meta-evaluation, this report does not evaluate a particular activity, but rather reflects on the evaluation process and high-level findings that emerged across reports. What emerges is guidance for both future implementation and evaluations. To begin, the report illustrates a step-by-step process into evaluations, from research design to data collection to learning events. We provide examples of learning in action—specifically, from findings and challenges identified in evaluations and assessments conducted by Liberia Strategic Analysis (LSA). Each of the 31 reports is included in key highlights, examining first the main cross-cutting lessons. The Development Objectives (DOs) for Economic Growth, Health and Education, and Democracy, Rights, and Governance are further examined alongside standalone reports on gender and stakeholder consultation.<br /><br />However, findings do not necessarily generate learning unles

Source: DEC abstract, PA-00W-S5P (2020). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.

Operated in: Liberia. 3 other countries are only tagged on documents.

Years: 2012 to 2021 award start, end from document years
Implementer: Tetra Tech ARD; Social Impact, Inc.; Landesa 28 sources
Funder or award: USAID. Mission to Liberia; OAA-I-12-00032; 669-C-16-00002
Purpose: Not available yet: the program's stated purpose has not been read from its documents.

Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents

not in the map yet: no district, region or facility is named for this program yet; only Malawi and Guatemala have place data so far

No district, region or facility is named in this program's documents yet. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far. Towns and natural features are not drawn.

Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. Source: document tags, scope rule

Operated in Liberia, 2015 to 2021 49 sources

Scope: country: Liberia. The award code belongs to this country's mission. High confidence.

How we know this

How sure we are: 0.9.

OU code 669 = mission Liberia
evidence countries (2): Liberia 49, Indonesia 1; top share 0.98, single-country share 0.98

Only tagged on documentsnot program locationsnot program locations

Basis: read from a record field

These countries are tagged on documents. A tag is not evidence that the program operated there.
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence

When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. Source: award and document years

Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.

Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. Source: initiative records, start year

Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. Source: award and document records

Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. Basis: read from a record field

Organizations named on this program's documents.
Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Tetra Tech ARD	implementer	2015 to 2020	Stated in a document	28 sources
Social Impact, Inc.	implementer	2016 to 2021	Stated in a document	16 sources

Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records

Basis: read from a record field

Awards this program is funded through (identifiers, not amounts).
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
OAA-I-12-00032 (idiq, FY2012)	2015 to 2021	Stated in a document	31 sources
669-C-16-00002 (contract, FY2016)	2016 to 2021	Stated in a document	20 sources

Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. Source: DEC document tags

Programs worth reading next, by topic, implementer, country and years. Similar by facets (topic, implementer, country, years) and, when available, description. It says the programs look alike, not how they are related in time. Source: catalog facets

Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. Source: linked evaluation documents

Evaluation studies and evaluation-stage documents, by title and year. Findings not extracted yet.
Title	Year	Document	Why listed
Institutional Audit of the Key Liberian Land Governance Institutions	year not recorded	PA-00W-RWN	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
Liberia elections and political transition (LEPT ): pause and reflect project review	2017	PA-00X-77D	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
Activity review: land governance support activity	2018	PA-00T-5GQ	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)

Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.

Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library

Liberia Strategic Analysis (LSA) (LGSA)

Only tagged on documentsnot program locationsnot program locations

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
USAID. Mission to Liberia	2016 to 2020	Stated in a document	11 sources
USAID. Bur. for Economic Growth, Education and Environment	2018	Stated in a document	1 source
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)	2021	Stated in a document	1 source

What this program was

Where it worked0

Places1

Only tagged on documentsnot program locationsnot program locations

Timelineyears: award years, end from document years

Political context

Implementers3

Awards and funding sources67

Topic tags15

Similar programs

Evaluations and lessons5

Documents by lifecycle stage50years in documents

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with