This collection of Implementation Tips for USAID Partners brings together 68 articles to support new partners, especially those who have little or no experience with USAID.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on how to recruit an effective, diverse, and inclusive board of directors.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on governance, management, and the role of the board of directors. 

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on strategic planning. 

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on annual audit requirements. 

This Guide was developed to help program designers who work in any sector to envision and implement with CSO partners the CD support that will strengthen local systems and help CSOs achieve their missions. Program designers from both implementing partner and donor organizations who are working to build the capacity of CSOs can use this Guide to better distinguish among CD approaches, the processes involved in each, and potential impact of a chosen approach. By identifying organizational characteristics and areas of potential capacity growth, this Guide will enable program designers to better select the intervention necessary to achieve their desired goal. Although this Guide is designed to benefit CSOs, the approaches outlined can also be applied to community based organizations (CBOs) or local for-profit organizations. The approaches included in this Guide are designed to increase capacity regardless of the actual knowledge or skill targeted.  

Guide describes how evaluations should be used to test the theories and assumptions on which capacity-development programs are based, to document their results and to draw lessons for improving future programs.

Paper offers a conceptual framework and methodology for planning, monitoring and evaluating social development networks and partnerships by Darcy Ashman.

Guide provides information on developing a national or sectoral evaluation system (aka Evaluation Capacity Development) to assist governments and development agencies.

Describes guidelines that are used by independent auditors in performing recipient-contracted audits required by USAID agreements with non-U.S. recipient organizations. These organizations are referred to as ""recipients"" or ""foreign recipients"" throughout the Guidelines. ""Agreements"" or ""awards"" are defined as USAID-funded grants, contracts, cooperative agreements and loans. The guidelines also provide recipients with help in selecting independent auditors to perform the audits.