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Introducing the Youth Equity Index: Measuring What Really Matters in Youth Engagement

August 12, 2025 / White Paper
Too often, youth are invited to the table only to be handed a script someone else wrote. At Root Change, we believe it’s time to flip that script and the Youth Equity Index (YEI) is our latest step in doing just that. Developed under the USAID-funded Youth Excel program (2020-2025),
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Measuring Local Ownership in International Development Projects

January 6, 2020 / White Paper
This post was originally published by MERL Tech on December 17, 2019. It is the result of an opportunity to present a five-minute Lightning Talk on Pando LLS at the MERL Tech DC conference in Sept 2019. “Localization”, measuring local ownership, USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance… We’re all talking about these
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Pando Localization Learning System

November 15, 2019 / White Paper
The Pando LLS White Paper lays out the theory and methodology behind the Pando Localization Learning System. It describes why a new theory of measurement for localization is needed, how system-based approaches of network analysis and qualitative feedback provide a solution, details on of a set of four localization metrics,
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