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A Culture of Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptability: Examples from Lebanon
Search for Common Ground has long implemented a culture of collaborative, reflective learning around programming and across its country offices. This case story highlights recent…
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Realigning Strategy to Respond to Market Realities: Agricultural Inputs Uganda
In June 2015, the USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity was reaching its midway point, and the team commissioned a Strategic Assessment to determine if the…
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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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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…
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Stop, Reflect, Improve: Using CLA to Engage Men to Improve Women and Children's Health
The Amalima project builds on existing communal initiatives to sustainably improve household food and nutrition security by strengthening access to and availability of food,…
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No One Can Know Everything: Collaborating for Better Evaluation Recommendations
In June 2016, USAID/Jordan decided that, while its systems were producing strong evaluations, there must be a way to further enhance the utility of the final recommendations for…
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Using Evidence & Expertise to Build a Sustainable Health Service Delivery Network
The USAID-DFID nongovernmental organization (NGO) Health Service Delivery Project (NHSDP) is USAID/Bangladesh’s flagship clinical service delivery project, offering integrated…
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Rising Coca Production and USAID/Colombia: Responding with Rapid Iterative Learning
The astonishing increase in coca leaf cultivation in Colombia over the past 3 years, coinciding with the historic peace agreement between the government and guerrilla forces to end…