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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Bangladesh Network Analysis
The Idea: Network analysis can be utilized efficiently and cost effectively to inform ongoing program decision-making, flagging promising innovations for scale-up or scale-back.The…
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Mission-Based Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Platforms Assessment Report
In 2016, the Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) commissioned an internal stocktaking of USAID's mission-based MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) Platforms. A MEL…
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DRG Learning Agenda Literature Review: Combatting Corruption Among Civil Servants - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on What Works
In 2016, USAID’s Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance launched its Learning Agenda—a set of research questions designed to address the issues that…
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Grantcraft Guide to Community Philanthropy for Donors
This paper is for donors looking for ways to ensure that our interventions produce lasting results that are owned and directed by the people they are meant to benefit. It offers…
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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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Applying Evidence: What Works? A Rapid Literature Review
This review provides a summary of existing literature on using evidence to inform ways the US Global Development Lab (the Lab) and Agency as a whole could improve its evidence-based…
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Tips on Learning from Context Formal and Informal Approaches to Understanding the Local Political Economy
Successfully adapting your programmatic efforts and policy engagement to the context depends on maintaining your understanding of that context. Given this, continuous …
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Tips for Strengthening Local Capacity To Assess Incentives and Conduct Savvy, Adaptive Programming
These tips are part of a series of tips and resources to support context-driven adaptation in programming. For other resources, see the public version of the Context…
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Tips to Adaptively Manage in Dynamic Contexts
These tips are part of a series of tips and resources to support context-driven adaptation in programming. For other resources, see the public version of the Context…
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Tips for Creating a Learning Agenda: Based on the findings of a Landscape Analysis of Learning Agendas at USAID
This document outlines ways a learning agenda may benefit an operating unit or team and describes characteristics of an effective learning agenda; it offers general steps to the…