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Using CLA Approaches to Increase Responsible Gold from Congo
International policymakers, civil society, and end-users are increasingly aware of the role that minerals from the high-risk conflict zones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo …
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Collaborating to Build Local Government Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity in Peru
USAID’s evaluation policy and the integration of aid effectiveness principles in our work created an important impetus for…
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Learning to Learn in Liberia: A CLA Approach to Effective Advocacy
The USAID Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative (LAVI) is five-year project implemented by DAI with the goal of strengthening multi-stakeholder partnerships to advocate for…
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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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Putting Communities at the Heart of Learning and Adapting
CARE developed a Participatory Performance Tracker to put communities at the center of our learning and adaptation, as well as our monitoring and evaluation. The tool holds us and…
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Collaborate-Learn-Adapt in Practice: Harnessing Youth-Led ICT Solutions to Scale Feed the Future Results in Uganda
The Feed the Future Uganda Commodity Production and Marketing activity approach is to work through the middle of the value chain, targeting traders and village agents as the avenues…
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Operationalizing CLA in Uganda’s Feed the Future Value Chain Project
There is a need for an operational-level monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) plan and process to guide Project-level definitions, targeting, measurement, and reflection on…
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Saving Lives Through Continuing Education: Supporting Nigeria’s Medical Laboratory Scientists
Medical laboratory science has been called "the hidden profession that saves lives." Medical laboratory scientists (MLS) are scientific investigators, analyzing bodily fluids and…
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Assumptions, Conjectures, and Other Miracles: The Application of Evaluative Thinking to Theory of Change Models in Community Development
Unexamined and unjustified assumptions are the Achilles heel of development programs. In this paper, we describe an evaluation capacity building (ECB) approach designed to help…