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Using Developmental Evaluation to Reboot Theories of Change
In September 2017, the Digital Finance (DFS) team joined others in the U.S. Global Development Lab to participate in a Developmental Evaluation (DE), a CLA approach. The Uptake DE…
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Learning by Thinking: Overcoming the Bias for Action through Reflection
Research on learning has primarily focused on the role of doing (experience) in fostering progress over time. Drawing on literature in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, we…
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Strengthening Kenya's TVET Capacity through Learning and Adaptation
Youth unemployment and underemployment is a major development challenge around the world and particularly in Kenya which has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment globally…
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Theory of Change as a Tool to Achieve Greater Self Reliance in Bangladesh
Nobo Jatra-New Beginning’ - a five year Development Food Security Activity - seeks to improve gender equitable food security, nutrition and resilience in southwest Bangladesh. World…
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Transforming Communities and Staff One Latrine at a Time in Rural Angola
Since 2016, Episcopal Relief & Development and the Igreja Evangélica Anglicana em Angola have been implementing Maza yi Moyo, a four-year community-led and managed project to…
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USAID/Liberia’s Rapid, Cost-friendly, and Collaborative Evaluations
In a context where Missions are seeking ways to be more creative and cost-effective with their work, even the way we learn and adapt begins to shift. The Democracy, Rights, and…
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Water for Life: Using CLA to Transform a WASH System into a Self-Reliant Apparatus
In the remote, highland areas of Bandarban District in southeastern Bangladesh, home to a dozen distinct ethnic groups, the USAID-funded Development Food Security Activity,…
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Tips on Collective Sensemaking
These tips are part of a series of tips and resources to support context-driven adaptation in programming. For other resources, see the Context-Driven Adaptation Collection at https…
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CLA Fosters Local Ownership and, Ultimately, Better Results: A Review of the Evidence
As USAID reorients its mandate to support countries in planning, financing, and implementing solutions to their own development challenges, local ownership will feature even more…
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Listen, Collaborate & Adapt: Increased Male Engagement for Resiliency in Northern Ghana
The USAID Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Project had notable success in its first three years of integrated agriculture, nutrition, livelihoods and sanitation programming to…