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From Goats to Poultry: How Transitioning to New Value Chains Enhances Livelihoods
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world; life expectancies are low, and families often struggle to meet basic household food needs especially during the lean season…
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Making Connections, Measuring Results: CLA in a Food Security Program in Zambia
This case concerns the USAID-funded, Feed the Future Zambia Mawa Project (2012-2017), implemented in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The project was designed to positively impact…
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A Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Approach to a Gender Workshop
USAID/Indonesia conducted a Gender CLA Workshop to follow up on the recommendation of a Mission gender self-assessment conducted in 2015, which highlighted the need for more…
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Cost-Savvy Learning and Adapting Maximizes Impact in Rural Paraguay
Midway through a five-year, $10 million cooperative agreement to increase the incomes of small producers, and with mounting concerns about project performance, USAID/Paraguay…
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What Can the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Tell Us About Collaborating, Learning and Adapting in USAID Missions?
The concept of collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA), introduced by USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) in 2012, has served to operationalize and strengthen…
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USAID/Morocco's State of the Mission Address: Improving Feedback Loops
USAID/Morocco's experience demonstrates effective ways of incorporating CLA into already-existing processes and then shows how one small change, presenting the "State of the Mission…
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Leveraging the Annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Reflection and Change
USAID/Senegal harnessed the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) as a powerful tool to generate organizational and cultural change. The intentional and highly consultative…
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Practice What You Preach: A Tool For Staff Transformation
Using a collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) and curiosity-centered approach made it easier and more effective for program staff to work with communities on the sensitive…
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Learning and Adapting Enables Civil Society Innovations in Cambodia
Development Innovations (DI) is a five-year, USAID-funded project aimed to spur innovation within Cambodia's civil society and build its capacity to design and use information and…
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Nigeria Education Crisis Response: Using Feedback Loops to Drive Project Success
The success of the Nigeria Education Crisis Response (ECR) has largely been determined by its ability to adapt to changing contextual factors and develop meaningful relationships…