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A Culture of Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptability: Examples from Lebanon
Search for Common Ground has long implemented a culture of collaborative, reflective learning around programming and across its country offices. This case story highlights recent…
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Realigning Strategy to Respond to Market Realities: Agricultural Inputs Uganda
In June 2015, the USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity was reaching its midway point, and the team commissioned a Strategic Assessment to determine if the…
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Walking the Walk: Building Internal Capacity for Performance Improvement
USAID staff are most often hired for their technical mastery, yet many of their day-to-day tasks require management and relationship-building skills. This gap is evident in the…
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Understanding Social Infrastructure to Increase Uptake of Improved Technologies
The traditional role of cooperatives has provided farmers with collective bargaining power. Cooperatives are now playing an increasingly significant role as a trusted vehicle to…
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From Goats to Poultry: How Transitioning to New Value Chains Enhances Livelihoods
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world; life expectancies are low, and families often struggle to meet basic…
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Making Connections, Measuring Results: CLA in a Food Security Program in Zambia
This case concerns the USAID-funded, Feed the Future Zambia Mawa Project (2012-2017), implemented in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The project was designed to positively impact…
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A Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Approach to a Gender Workshop
USAID/Indonesia conducted a Gender CLA Workshop to follow up on the recommendation of a Mission gender self-assessment conducted in 2015, which highlighted the need for more…
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Cost-Savvy Learning and Adapting Maximizes Impact in Rural Paraguay
Midway through a five-year, $10 million cooperative agreement to increase the incomes of small producers, and with mounting concerns about project performance, USAID/Paraguay…
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USAID/Morocco's State of the Mission Address: Improving Feedback Loops
USAID/Morocco's experience demonstrates effective ways of incorporating CLA into already-existing processes and then shows how one small change, presenting the "State of the Mission…
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Leveraging the Annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Reflection and Change
USAID/Senegal harnessed the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) as a powerful tool to generate organizational and…