The 2021 CLA Case Competition Submission webinar was hosted on April 8, 2021. It was led by USAID's Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Team in the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning Office of Learning, Evaluation and Research (PPL/LER).The webinar included a presentation and Q&A session. It covered the submission process...

Building and supporting networks – whether for advocacy or sharing knowledge – is central to many democracy, human rights, and governance projects. However, while “network” is a term practitioners often use, it is rarely clearly or consistently defined.  At minimum, this undermines result measurements, but can also hinder eff...

The USAID Center for Education within the Bureau for Development, Democracy and Innovation (DDI/EDU) advances the USAID Education Policy, which aims to achieve sustained, measurable improvements in learning outcomes and skills development. The Education Performance Improvement, Communications, and Knowledge (EPIC) contract was a five-year...

Nearly five years ago, the CLA and the LEARN contract developed the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Maturity Tool to help USAID missions and offices think more deliberately about how to plan for and implement CLA approaches. In the years since, many USAID and implementing partner teams have used the tool. They have found it hel...

Addressing the question "How can we measure USAID's contribution to capacity and commitment" required first exploring potential programmatic measures of capacity and commitment at different levels of scale. To that end, this collection of resources includes (1) a review of existing measures of capacity and commitment across sectors and le...

Here are my remarks from the November 19, 2020 KM4Dev Knowledge Cafe #10 on “Uncomfortable Truths in Development,” with thanks to co-panelists Sarah Cummings, Ann Hendrix-Jenkins and Kishor Pradhan, moderated by Gladys Kemboi.I want to say a bit about what we can do differently, and better, specifically as knowledge workers, to addres...

Learning Lab is part of the constellation of USAID sites through which Agency staff and partners engage and share in learning and knowledge exchange around topics important to development work. Another of our "sister sites," BiodiversityLinks, has recently refreshed and relaunched. Below is the BiodiversityLinks announcement and summary o...

At CARE, we’ve been convinced for a long time that supporting gender equality is critical to people changing their lives and leaving poverty. From a human rights perspective, we know it’s “worth it” – even though approaches that focus on supporting women and men to change their own lives are more complicated and sometimes take l...

Learning Lab is one of a constellation of USAID sites through which we hope to share and exchange knowledge and learning with the Agency’s staff and partners. Another of our “sister sites," Climatelinks, has recently undergone a redesign. Below is the Climatelinks announcement and a breakdown of the new features. The family of USAID �...