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Adaptation in Action: Examples From Uganda
A conversation with Tracy Miller (USAID Contracting Officer); Neil Price (Deputy Director, OAA) and Tony Pryor (Training Advisor, PPL/SPP) on adaptive mechanisms, and the lessons…
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Sample M&E Position Description from Indonesia, 2015
This document is a sample PD for senior M&E position in USAID/Indonesia. It speaks about how Learning and Adaption is related to M&E duties. Such senior M&E position…
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Grants Improve Decentralized Service Delivery: Evidence from Uganda
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program is a 6-year USAID-funded project in Uganda. The program is USAID’s vehicle for empowering local governments in…
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Managing Knowledge for Program Results
CARE's SHOUHARDO program works with the generous funding of USAID in Bangladesh to reduce stunting and malnutrition. The project uses a detailed knowledge management strategy to…
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Fostering Reflective Practice in Complex Development Programming: Zambia's Mawa Project
This case is concerned with Catholic Relief Services’ learning around a safe-fail pilot of the use of evaluative thinking (ET) in the Feed the Future ‘Mawa’ Project located in the…
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Towards a Productive Collaboration in Research and Implementation of Climate-Smart Conservation Agriculture in Sierra Leone
The case study examines the research support by Cornell University to CARE Sierra Leone’s work as an implementing partner to the USAID-funded STEWARD project in Guinea and Sierra…
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Building a Culture of Learning: Lessons from Expanding HIV Treatment in Mozambique
HIV is a leading cause of death in Mozambique, which experiences stresses to its under-resourced health system. In 2020, the Ministry of Health expanded eligibility criteria to…
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CLA-Inspired Enhanced COVID-19 Specimen Collection and Transportation in the Conflict Area of Mindanao, Philippines
The USAID Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDDS) project in the Philippines worked with the government and other implementing partners in an emergency response to…
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Using CLA to Reinvigorate Partnerships in Zambia: EDEV's Journey
Partnerships are central to how USAID approaches development. The Agency's New Vision for Global Development is increasingly stressing the importance of localization and private…
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Leveraging Observational Evidence and Innovative Reflective Practice for Adaptation
‘We must learn!’ is a common cry on projects often resulting in a dry and static ‘pause and reflects’ that – if you are lucky – include evidence on occasion. Frontline staff in…