This blog is Part II in the two-part series on Rapid After Action Reviews (RAARs). Read Part I for background on what a RAAR is, when it should be con...

This blog is Part I in the two-part series on Rapid After Action Reviews (RAARs). Part II (coming soon!) explores the real-world successes and challen...

By March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had reached Bangladesh, and the offices of the Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock Productivity for Improved Nut...

The summer months at USAID are a period of transition. A cadre of Foreign Service Officers rotate to different placements around the globe. Fellowship...

Many of us strive to learn from challenges, successes, and failures in our development programming, and use these learnings as opportunities to adapt ...

Zach Center is a technical advisor at Pact, with a focus on civil society strengthening and capacity development. He spent the last five years he...

Over the course of five years and to the tune of more than a million dollars in funding, three research teams from Kenya and Tanzania worked to catalo...

Amy Prevatt, co-author of a 2019 winning case with USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (USAID/LAC), reflects on why she and colleague...

Over the past year, many of us have relied on a plethora of adaptive management guidance and tools – many more than we might have reasonably anticip...

Building and supporting networks – whether for advocacy or sharing knowledge – is central to many democracy, human rights, and governance projects...

A woman from CARE's Honduras pilot voucher program holds a voucher for a supermarket.After Action Reviews (AARs) have lots of benefits. They give team...

Nearly five years ago, the CLA and the LEARN contract developed the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Maturity Tool to help USAID missions an...