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Cultivating a CLA Culture to Ensure Results: The NAFAKA Evolution
When a long-standing team needs to shift its approach for a transition from one project to another, how do you create a culture that enables this evolution? This is the challenge…
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Construction Permitting in Serbia: From 20 Stops to One Stop Shop
Before USAID Serbia’s Business Enabling Project (BEP) started in 2011, it was much harder to run a business in Serbia. In 2015, the World Bank ranked Serbia among the worst…
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Failing Forward: How CARE is Focusing on What Goes Wrong to Improve Impact
CARE's Failing Forward initiative is sparking opportunities to showcase the ideas that don't work so we can spend more time implementing the ones that do. It's changing the…
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Removing the blinders: Transitioning NAFAKA II to an evidence-based project.
The ability to design impactful interventions and make adaptive decisions during implementation requires a solid technical evidence base and an inquisitive implementation process…
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Strengthening Colombia’s Social Service Workforce through Collaboration and Learning
The Colombian Family Welfare Institute (Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, ICBF) provides violence prevention and protection services for children, adolescents, and…
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Success Breeds Success: A Case Study in CLA Implementation Across Activities
The USAID/Philippines Health Project (2017–2022) is a portfolio of 11 activities to improve the health of under-served Filipinos. Based on evidence from its 2016 Health Portfolio…
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The Luke Commission uses CLA to Manage Rapid Growth in Eswatini
The Luke Commission (TLC) is a local NGO in the Kingdom of Eswatini that provides comprehensive medical care to under-served populations through mobile hospital outreaches and at a…
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Employing Futures: CLA to Strengthen Youth Workforce Development in Honduras
In Honduras, youth employment reaches almost 30 percent, more than double the global rate. It is exacerbated by the lack of citizen security and effective gang deterrence strategies…
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From Good to Great: USAID/Azerbaijan's Enabling Environment (R)evolution
How do you go from good to great in a non-permissive environment when your budget has been zeroed and staff morale has tanked? In the case of USAID/Azerbaijan, the key was…
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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 …