Announcing DECfinder: Preserving Development Knowledge for the Future

Built by I4DI, DECfinder restores access to over 110,000 curated documents from USAID’s Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) — including evaluations, technical studies, project designs, and strategic plans spanning decades of global development work. Designed for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, it offers fast, intuitive search by keyword, country, sector, or document type — making institutional memory accessible again.

As the original DEC was taken offline, DECfinder fills the gap — not as a replacement, but as a practical response to preserve and activate development knowledge. It’s free, easy to use, and built for the field. Because when knowledge is cumulative and within reach, we move forward faster.

Insights from Six Decades of International Development Evaluations

As we enter 2025, it’s a fitting moment to reflect on USAID’s 60+ year journey in international development and consider what it tells us about the path ahead. To help distill these lessons from over half a century of international development, we turned to DECipher. DECipher is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system built by the […]