Winning CLA Case Competition Submissions from Africa!

The Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Case Competition, celebrated its milestone 10th year! The CLA Case Map now holds over 800 cases. These numerous examples show the reach and breadth of ways USAID and partners put CLA into practice for better development programming. In November, we're looking back on all the winners from past competition years. Discover winning cases from Africa below!

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY

• Learning and Collaboration: DNA for Next-Generation Agricultural Research 

• Strengthening Kenya's TVET Capacity through Learning and Adaptation 

• Embracing CLA to Drive Technology Adoption in Kenya: AflaSTOP's Experience

• Making Connections, Measuring Results: CLA in a Food Security Program in Zambia

• Stop, Reflect, Improve: Using CLA to Engage Men to Improve Women and Children's Health

• Adapting Child Nutrition Screening During the COVID-19 Lock Down in Uganda

CROSS-SECTORAL

• Ask questions, generate learning, use learning (Wash, Rinse, Repeat)

• CLA's Essential Role in Supporting Racial and Ethnic Equity

• Collective Action, Collective Impact through Strategic Partnerships in Northern Kenya

• Leveraging the Annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Reflection and Change

• Collaborative Efforts to Further Strengthen the Government of Tanzania's Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Capacity Through the National MEL Week

RESILIENCE

• Collaborating, Learning and Adapting to Build Resilience in Fragile States 

• Encouraging a CLA Culture

• CLA Drives First-of-its-Kind Cash Grant Model in Morocco 

• How Restructuring and Culture Change Impacted Our Performance 

• Learning from Disaster: How CLA Helped to Mitigate Disaster in Ethiopia

STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Charting Uncertainty: Scenario Planning in a Complex Environment 

• USAID/Malawi CDCS Mid-Course Stocktaking Collaboration

• USAID/Zimbabwe’s Big Weeks and CLA: A Blueprint for Participatory, Scenario-Based CDCS Development 

DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GOVERNANCE 

• Libya's Taqarib Project Channels the CLA of Local Politics

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TRADE

• Adaptive Management in the Context of Job Creation, Tunisian Business Reform & Competitiveness 

EDUCATION AND YOUTH

• USAID/DFID ACCELERE! Working Together for Educational Success in the Democratic Republic of Congo 

• Nigeria Education Crisis Response: Using Feedback Loops to Drive Project Success

• Long-Term Parallel and Integrated Evaluation Activities Amplify Learning and Results 

• CLA and Research to Change with Adolescents in Zambia

ENVIRONMENT

• Seeing the Forest for the Trees: CLA Strengthens Conservation in Mozambique

• The Community-Based Landscape Connectivity Model: A Collaborative Approach to Secure, Protect and Sustain Kwakuchinja Wildlife Connectivity

• Collaborators with skin in the game: Learning about the use of sport to foster resilience against wildlife crime in the Greater Kruger, South Africa 

GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT

• Developing Country-Specific Gender Monitoring Indicators for Men and Women

• Practice What You Preach: A Tool For Staff Transformation

GLOBAL HEALTH

• The Luke Commission uses CLA to Manage Rapid Growth in Eswatini

• The Scoop on Poop: How Open Defecation Free Data Led to Activity Program Pivots in Ethiopia's Lowlands

• USAID/Liberia's G2G Promotes and Strengthens Decentralization in Health Sector 

• Road Map for Collaboration: Addressing Health & Nutrition Disparities Across Rwanda

• Improving Evaluation Use in Senegal through Recommendations Workshops

• How Collaborative Efforts Led to Better HIV Services and Outcomes in Eastern Uganda