Key Technical Resources

• Civic Education Primer

• Advocacy in Restricted Spaces: A Toolkit for Civil Society Organizations

• Maintaining Civic Space in Backsliding Regimes

• Grassroots Reform in the Global South

• Making Human Rights Campaigns Effective While Limiting Unintended Consequences

• Struggles from Below: Literature Review on Human Rights Struggles by Domestic Actors

• Election Management Assistance Donor Guide (2025)

• Companion Toolkit: Electoral Assessment Framework (2021)

• USAID Electoral Assessment Framework (2021)

• USAID Guiding Principles for Electoral Assistance (2024)

• Electoral Assistance After Action Review Methodology (2025)

• Political Party Assistance Policy (2021)

• Transition Elections and Political Processes in Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations: Lesson Learned (2007)

• Best Practices in Electoral Security: A Guide for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Programming (2013) 

• Electoral Security Framework: Technical Guidance Handbook for Democracy and Governance Officers (2010)

• Assessing and Verifying Election Results: A Decision-Maker’s Guide to Parallel Vote Tabulation and Other Tools (2015)

• Electoral Cybersecurity: A Brief Guide for Donor Program Development (2023)

Improving Democracy Assistance : Building Knowledge through Evaluations and Research Report (2008)

Deepening our Understanding of the Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building (2008)

DRG Evidence Maps across six subsectors (2022)

DRG Programmatic Approaches Inventory (2021)

DRG Programmatic Metrics (2022)

DRG Third Party Metrics (2022)

Learning Harvest of USAID Commissioned DRG Evidence

Guide on Gender Integration in DRG Programming

What works in supporting Women’s Political Participation and Leadership

Inclusive Development Analysis

Trauma Informed Approaches Toolkit (2024)

Safety/Security-Sensitive and Trauma-Informed Stakeholder Consultations with Members of Marginalized Groups

Women’s Political Participation and Leadership - Guide, What Works,

Assessment Reports: Honduras, Ecuador, Nigeria, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Colombia

Media Assessment Tool

Disinformation Primer

• Democratic Decentralization Programming Handbook (2009)

• Interagency Security Sector Reform Guide (2009)

• Handbook on Legislative Strengthening (2000)

• Impact of Investing in Cities and Local Governments (2024)

• Civil Service Reform Guide: Fiscal Accountability and Sustainable Trade (2023)

• Public Debt: A Primer for Development Practitioners (2022)

• Tax Administration Reform: A Primer (2012)

• USAID Guide: Strengthening and Working with Legislatures to Achieve Development Results (2022)

• USAID Guide to Public Financial Management (2022)

• Counter-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) Field Guide (2023)

• Field Guide: Helping Prevent Mass Atrocities (2015)

• USAID Human Rights Landscape Analysis Tool (2016)

• Applying Rights-Based Approaches (2019)

• Labor Sector Assessment Guide

• Labor Sector Programming Handbook

• Lessons in Locally Led Development: USAID/DRG's Shifting Approach to Civil Society

• Lessons in Locally Led Development: USAID/DRG's Shifting Approach to Rule of Law

• Lessons in Locally Led Development: USAID/DRG's Shifting Approach to Governance

• Measuring Local Capacity Strengthening in USAID/DRG Programming Using CBLD-9

• Rule of Law Practitioner's Guide (2020)

• Designing and Implementing Court Automation Projects Guide (2019)

• Guide to Rule of Law Country Analysis: The Rule of Law Strategic Framework (2010)

• Crime and Prevention Field Guide Final Report 2016

• Integrating Rule of Law and Global Development: Food Security, Climate Change, and Public Health 2013

• Field Guide for USAID DG Officers: Assistance to Civilian Law Enforcement in Developing Countries (2011)

• Reducing Corruption in the Judiciary (2009)

• USAID Legal Empowerment of the Poor: From Concepts to Assessment 2007

• Rebuilding the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Environments 2005

• Alternative Dispute Resolution Guide (1998)

• Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Reference Guide

• People-to-People Peacebuilding: A Program Guide

• Crime and Prevention Field Guide Final Report (2016)

• USAID OTI Lessons Learned Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programming (2010)

• VCA Analytical Framework Brief

PEA Guide

PEA Guide Annex

PEA Checklist

PEA SOW