2024's Most Popular Content
This December, we celebrate all that the USAID Learning Lab community has shared, learned, and created in 2024 and look forward to what’s to come in 2025.
- Our new Learning Lab monthly themes invited your perspectives on specific topics - from DEIA in development to Theories of Change. Thank you for sharing over 90 submissions that bring new and valuable insights to our library. Take a sneak peak at our 2025 themes and learn how to submit here.
- LinkedIn connected us in conversation - we grew our community to over 8000 people and noticed the energy around Theories of Change. Join the conversation by following our page and tagging us in what you’re sharing.
- Events brought us together to share and learn, such as the Bite-sized Learning series and the second annual Agency Learning and Evidence Month. Submit your own events to Learning Lab here!
- We celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the CLA Case Competition—receiving a record 176 cases, with 73% from first time submitters (welcome!) and expanding our case library to over 800 cases! Let’s break our record again next year.
The energy and insight from the community makes Learning Lab the knowledge hub it is. Thank you all for your contributions! Discover below which community contributions from 2024 were the most popular this year and we look forward to even more great learning in the next!
Top 10 most popular Learning Lab resources and blogs from 2024:
Making Theories of Change as easy as ABC By Andrew Koleros (Mathematica), Sean Mulkerne (USAID Learns), Mark Oldenbeuving, Danielle Stein
Paying for Results: Managing Risk in Fixed Amount Awards with Local Partners By Chemonics International
Why Your Gender Analysis is Disappointing By Emily Janoch with CARE
Designing Qualitative Research for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) By Karyn Fox, Robin Al-haddad, Camille Tacastacas, Anna Cloud, and Megan Neff with IDEAL
How to localize (and revolutionize) humanitarian aid? Insights from local actors in the Philippines By Florence Santos with CARE
Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Localization, Procurement, and Positive Deviants By Emily Janoch and Dawn Wadlow with CARE
Theory of Change Revision Guide By Sean Mulkerne with USAID/Vietnam and Social Impact
How to Encourage Self-Reflection and Sharing to Overcome Communication Challenges On Your Team By Hadas Kushnir (USAID), Katherine Haugh (Convive), and Christine Gandomi (USAID)
What should we focus on when we pause and reflect at different stages of activity implementation? By Hong Ha Nguyen and Linh Doan with USAID Learns
Self-Assessment Internal Communication Tool By Hadas Kushnir (USAID), Katherine Haugh (Convive), and Christine Gandomi (USAID)