In Annual Tally, Policy LINK Triples ‘Milestones’ over Last Year
Each of the 29 milestones, up from the nine listed during last year’s annual report, corresponds to one of six elements of USAID’s institutional architecture framework.
According to a just-completed annual tally, Policy LINK more than tripled the number of “milestones” it made possible in the last year, extending USAID’s impact across activities that measure the health of policy systems—from their inclusivity and stakeholder engagement, to the degree to which they are evidence-informed, to the mutual accountability of government, civil society, and other non-state actors. Each of the 29 milestones, up from the nine listed during last year’s annual report, corresponds to one of six elements of USAID’s institutional architecture framework, a set of guidelines that guide the agency’s policy programming.
On inclusivity and stakeholder engagement, for example, more than half of participants in Policy LINK-facilitated activities hailed from civil society.
From elevating youth voices as part of the African Union’s participation in this year’s UN Food Systems Summit to ensuring that rural communities have a say in donor programming in Bangladesh and South Sudan, Policy LINK’s work has helped center the voices of citizens who might otherwise be marginalized, especially given the pandemic’s restrictions on in-person dialogue.
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