This blog is a response to our invitation to reflect on how this community is using CLA approaches to respond to COVID-19. We’d love to hear fro...

We are experiencing something that none of us expected. The context has shifted under our feet. The world has changed significantly. And yet, our deve...

In September 2019, USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning and the LEARN contract announced the winners for the 2019 CLA case competition. ...

Effective decision-making - how it’s done and what decisions come to be - is a critical component of effective management. And it’s essential for ...

My first job in development was as an “Institutional Memory Specialist” (a fancy title to avoid calling me “intern in charge of finding pape...

About four years ago, we shared the Collaborating, Learning & Adapting (CLA) Framework with our USAID Learning Lab community and started using the...

Resilience – the ability to manage through crisis without compromising future wellbeing – is increasingly recognized as an essential part of globa...

Are you thinking about, or actively involved in, planning or implementing a learning agenda effort? Do you support learning and adaptive management wi...

Imagine you’re tasked with designing a program that improves public service delivery to local communities in Uganda. You know that you need to engag...

In promoting international development, what is the actual work we do?   How is that work understood?   Do our words truly reflect the work we wan...

This fall, USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning and the LEARN contract announced the winners of our annual CLA case competition. This wa...

This opinion piece was originally published on Devex.com on January 2, 2020. It was cross-posted with permission.  With a greater focus on interdisci...