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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…
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Walking the Talk: An Iterative Approach to Developing the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Maturity Matrix
USAID established Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) as a practice area in 2009 to improve organizational effectiveness and development results. The USAID Bureau for Policy…
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MERLIN: US Global Development Lab Evaluation and Impact Assessment
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Innovations activity, known as MERLIN, is an effort to source, co-create, and co-design innovations in monitoring, evaluation,…
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Better Bureaus for Business Partnerships: Collaborating Across USAID to Improve the Development Impact of Private Sector Partnerships
The U.S. Global Development Lab’s Center for Transformational Partnerships (CTP) built a private sector engagement (PSE) community of practice that is a resource for USAID staff…
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What’s New? High-Frequency Mobile Communication Drives Resilience Learning in Somalia
The Somalia Towards Reaching Resilience (STORRE) activity uses CARE’s Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, Reflection, and Learning (PMERL) process to help communities evaluate…
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Integrating Stakeholder Engagement into the Design Process: Liberia Strategic Analysis Communities of Practice
The Ebola crisis in Liberia clarified the importance of coordination, community engagement, and mobilization for emergency response and for development. Liberia Strategic Analysis …
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Science, Silver Bullets, and Sanitation: How Operational Research Improved Plan’s Global Programming
Plan International is a pioneer of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach — a method that triggers community-wide behavior change on sanitation practices, ending open…
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Context Analysis and Flexible Partnership in South and Central Syria
Mercy Corps’ South and Central Syria program supports local nongovernmental and community-based organizations to provide food assistance and non-food items; water, sanitation, and…
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CLA for Sustained Impact and a Model for Issue-Based Policy Making in Africa
The International Republican Institute (IRI) has a long record of helping civil society, the legislature and political parties in Somaliland to operate in a manner that is…
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CLA with Local Partners for Enhanced Organizational Performance and Learning
This case is presented on Development Food Security Activities (DFSA) USAID supported program, implemented by Relief Society of Tigray (REST). It narrates CLA practices of the…