USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
A connected evidence cycle for agriculture-led growth decision workflows.
Project overview
USAID's Bureau for Resilience and Food Security needed a stronger evidence cycle for agriculture-led growth. The work aggregated programmatic approaches, mapped intervention-level evidence, calculated cost per intervention, and identified future research priorities so technical teams could make cost-informed decisions with a broader evidence base.
Project story
For USAID's Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, the Evidence Cycle was about making agriculture and food-system evidence usable in programmatic choices. Teams needed more than a literature list; they needed intervention-level evidence, cost information, and a clearer view of research gaps.
The project aggregated programmatic approaches, mapped evidence at the intervention level, and calculated cost per intervention. The work enlarged the documented technical approach base, identified 18 research priorities, and gave the Bureau cost estimates that could support cost-informed decision-making for the first time across the evidence cycle.
Example deliverables
Concrete outputs or working assets the project produced or supported.
Decision problem
USAID's resilience and food-security teams needed a stronger evidence cycle for agriculture-led growth decisions. Evidence on programmatic approaches, intervention performance, cost, research gaps, food systems, markets, and resilience was spread across many products and difficult to use consistently in design and investment decisions.
What the work involved
Aggregated evidence for programmatic approaches and mapped it at the intervention level so technical teams could compare what had been documented.
Calculated cost per intervention and surfaced research gaps, giving the Bureau a stronger basis for cost-informed and evidence-informed decisions.
Expanded the documented base of technical approaches and identified research priorities to guide future agriculture, resilience, and food-system investments.
Outcome
More usable evidence for agriculture-led growth strategy and program decisions.
Evidence inputs
Review focus
Bring one decision, report, review process, or evidence problem. We will help identify the smallest useful place to begin.
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