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Grantcraft Guide to Community Philanthropy for Donors
This paper is for donors looking for ways to ensure that our interventions produce lasting results that are owned and directed by the people they are meant to benefit. It offers…
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Facilitative Leadership - Using Facilitation to Enable Strategic Collaboration
The Africa Lead program, Feed the Future’s primary capacity building program in sub-Saharan Africa, has found how to use facilitation strategically - what they call facilitative…
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Applying Evidence: What Works? A Rapid Literature Review
This review provides a summary of existing literature on using evidence to inform ways the US Global Development Lab (the Lab) and Agency as a whole could improve its evidence-based…
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Discussion Note: Co-Creation (ADS 201 Additional Help)
The purpose of this Discussion Note is to share practical approaches on how to design USAID activities using co-creation methods. This Discussion Note recognizes that many Missions…
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The 5Rs Framework in the Program Cycle
A key principle of USAID’s Program Cycle is to “Promote Sustainability through Local Ownership.” The purpose of this Technical Note is to describe the “5Rs Framework”, a practical…
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Tools for Knowledge and Learning: A Guide for Development and Humanitarian Organizations
Knowledge and learning is key to ODI's Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) approach. This toolkit aims to present entry points and references to the wide range of tools and…
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USAID Hosts Its First "Crowdsourcing" Event To Clean, Map, and Share Agency Data
This crowd sourcing effort involved volunteers who virtually collaborated with USAID staff to review Agency data on specific USAID economic growth activities, and help code that…
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Aid Recipient Perspectives on Strengthening Country Systems
This is a background paper for the November 2012 USAID Experience Summit on Strengthening Country Systems. As USAID looks to strengthen country systems, it must move from its…
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Development Grants Program Global Evaluation Summary
This is a background paper for the November 2012 USAID Experience Summit on Strengthening Country Systems.Between September 2010 and March 2011, Thomas Dichter was commissioned to…
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Positive Deviance Approach
This website offers information on the positive deviance approach, which is an asset-based, problem-solving, and community-driven approach that enables the community to discover…