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Facilitative Leadership - Using Facilitation to Enable Strategic Collaboration
The Africa Lead program, Feed the Future’s primary capacity building program in sub-Saharan Africa, has found how to use facilitation strategically - what they call facilitative…
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RAPID Decision-Making: What It Is, Why We Like It, and How to Get the Most Out of It
Decision making can be challenging for nonprofit leadership teams. But using tools—like RAPID®—can help nonprofit leaders and managers identify the activities that must occur in…
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OMB Learning Agenda
What is a Learning Agenda?According to the Office of Management and Budget, a learning agenda is a set of broad questions directly related to the work that an agency conducts…
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Establishing a Learning Agenda and Learning Agenda Template
A learning agenda includes a (1) set of questions addressing the critical knowledge gaps impeding informed design and implementation decisions and (2) plans for learning activities…
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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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Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange to Promote “Treat All” in the Caribbean
In 2001, the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) was created to provide a unified response to combating the epidemic. While the HIV prevalence declined from 2%…
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Oceans of Opportunity: Using CLA for Mid-Term Program Learning and Adaptation
The USAID Oceans and Fisheries Partnership (Oceans) is a five-year regional program funded by USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA) to combat illegal, unreported, and…
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Learning by Doing: Building the Evidence Base for Health Information System Strengthening Globally
Addressing health systems needs globally requires effective resource allocation and the ability to make decisions based on available information. In low- and middle-income countries…
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A New Model for Strengthening Health Information Systems: Learning from Experiences During the Ebola Outbreak
The West Africa Health Informatics Team (WAHIT) is a proof of concept initiative funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Global Development Lab to test…
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Adapting Theories of Change: Pause and Reflect to PROTECT Wildlife in Tanzania
The USAID Promoting Tanzania's Environment, Conservation, and Tourism Activity (USAID PROTECT) addresses dynamics that threaten biodiversity conservation and inhibit private sector…