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Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS)

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Name source: not recorded for this programScope: globalKind: program

Key awd:OAA-A-10-00006

Review evidence

73 facts shown; 0 unconfirmed links; 0 support mechanisms (not programs); 148 documents cite this program.

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

Description: not available yet. When it is, it appears here with its source (IATI, a DEC document abstract, a cited summary, or one generated from the documents), never without one.

Operated in: Africa, Asia, Syria, Sahel, Congo Democratic Republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Nepal, Pakistan, Haiti, Tanzania, Jordan, Malawi, Zambia, Africa South of Sahara, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Niger, Ghana, Lebanon, Turkey, Nicaragua, South Asia, Burundi, Southeast Asia, Mozambique.

Years: 2010 to 2023 award start, end from document years
Implementer: Save the Children (U.S.); Mercy Corps; Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group (CORE Group); and 24 more 118 sources
Funder or award: USAID. Ofc. of Food for Peace (FFP); OAA-A-10-00006; 72DFFP18LA00003
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

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
Save the Children (U.S.)	implementer	2013 to 2023	Stated in a document	118 sources
Mercy Corps	implementer	2016 to 2023	Stated in a document	112 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-A-10-00006 (cooperative agreement, FY2010)	2013 to 2023	Stated in a document	147 sources
72DFFP18LA00003 (leader with associates, FY2018)	2018 to 2023	Stated in a document	64 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
Mid-term evaluation of the technical and operational performance support (TOPS) program, cooperative agreement no. AID-OAA-A-10-00006	2013	PA-00M-FSN	linked as an evaluation of this program
Paquet de Gestion des Connaissance et de Suivi Evaluation	2017	PA-00W-S4Z	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
Technical and operational performance support (TOPS) program : summative evaluation final report	2019	PA-00W-468	linked as an evaluation of this program

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

Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS)

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with

Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Land O'Lakes, Inc.	implementer	2015	Stated in a document	2 sources
CARE International	implementer	2017	Stated in a document	2 sources
International Medical Corps	implementer	2016	Stated in a document	2 sources
ACDI/VOCA	implementer	2014 to 2016	Stated in a document	2 sources
World Vision Relief Organization	implementer	2014	Stated in a document	1 source
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)	implementer	2014	Stated in a document	1 source
TechnoServe	implementer	2016	Stated in a document	1 source
Lutheran World Relief (LWR)	implementer	2014	Stated in a document	1 source
GOAL	implementer	2015	Stated in a document	1 source
CARE USA	implementer	2015	Stated in a document	1 source
University Research Co., LLC (URC)	implementer	2017	Stated in a document	1 source
World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO)	implementer	2015	Stated in a document	1 source
AgriTechTalk CIC	implementer	2014	Stated in a document	1 source
The Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network	implementer	2016	Stated in a document	1 source
The Ethiopia Home Garden Network	implementer	2016	Stated in a document	1 source
Global Water Initiative	implementer	2017	Stated in a document	1 source
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth	implementer	2016	Stated in a document	1 source
RECO Industries LTD	implementer	2017	Stated in a document	1 source
WI-HER	implementer	2015	Stated in a document	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
USAID. Ofc. of Food for Peace (FFP)	2013 to 2019	Stated in a document	76 sources
USAID. Bur. for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)	2018 to 2023	Stated in a document	66 sources
AID-OAA-A-10-00006	2014 to 2016	Stated in a document	3 sources
USAID. Mission to Senegal	2015	Stated in a document	2 sources

What this program was

Where it worked0

Places21

Timelineyears: award years, end from document years

Political context

Implementers27

Awards and funding sources10

Topic tags15

Similar programs

Evaluations and lessons6

Documents by lifecycle stage148years in documents

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with