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Let Your Failures Teach You
"You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you." ― Barack Obama
Two years after our last blog post on “Fail Again, Fail Better,” we’re…
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Designing a Collective Action Approach: Make Critical Scoping Decisions
Program Design for USAID design teams is a creative and exciting venture, but it can be daunting. Even if you determine that the Collective Action approach can best address your…
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Measuring Organizational Performance Improvement: Perspectives from USAID Mission Staff
Measuring the effectiveness of local capacity strengthening (LCS) efforts is key to tracking USAID’s progress towards reaching long-term development outcomes. Capacity is a form of…
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Five Ways to Use the NEW Digital Ecosystem Evidence Map
Digital technology is transforming the ways in which we interact with businesses, governments, and each other. It’s also changing how we do development. And—in that context—it’s…
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Case Competition Toolkit
Case study competitions are a useful tool for:
Capturing what’s working, what’s not working, and lessons learned on a certain topic or approach
Gathering a body of examples for…
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5 things we’ve learned from analyzing how we’re addressing gender inequality
The recent Gender Snapshot on progress against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is concerned that, at the current pace of…
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Integrating Effective CLA Plans into USAID Awards
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Learning has always been a part of how development programs are designed and implemented, but in recent years USAID has more clearly defined systematic guidance for its…