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Financial Inclusion Survey in Colombian Conflict Affected Municipalities
Between August and December 2016, Banco de la República (Colombia Central Bank), with technical and financial support from USAID/Colombia's Rural Finance Initiative (RFI), carried…
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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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Resourced CLA Accelerates the Journey to Self-reliance and Resilience in the Sahel
The SAREL project is a resourced, external CLA mechanism with the mandate to facilitate and stimulate enhanced collaboration and learning exchanges among 28 different RISE partners…
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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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Improving Evaluation Use in Senegal through Recommendations Workshops
USAID/Senegal has a broad government to government (G2G) portfolio. Two of the G2G activities were already evaluated and as USAID/Senegal approached its third G2G evaluation,…
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The Scoop on Poop: How Open Defecation Free Data Led to Activity Program Pivots in Ethiopia's Lowlands
Sanitation behavior change is a notoriously complex intervention. In the harsh, remote environment of the Ethiopian lowlands, this is particularly so. Community-Led Total Sanitation…
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Enhancing Organizational Culture for Improved Collaboration and Effectiveness
In April 2017, USAID/Paraguay suffered a series of unfortunate events that impacted staff morale and their ability to act as a team. The Mission’s FY 2018 budget was…
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Seeing in Systems, Working in Networks: CLA for Adaptive Peacebuilding in Myanmar
This case describes a CLA approach in a highly conflict-affected region of northern Myanmar between 2013-16. A CLA approach was desirable in this area because it has highly fluid…
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1+1>2: Increasing Impact Through a Regional Development Initiative in Uganda
USAID/Uganda set out to 'do business differently' with the introduction of their latest Country Development Cooperation Strategy. Part of this philosophy involves looking at…
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Effectiveness and Efficiency: CLA integration in Damrey Emergency Response in Vietnam
To improve organizational learning and effectively address programmatic challenges, CRS Vietnam has made deliberate efforts to operationalize the USAID-initiated CLA approach…