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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…
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Stakeholder Consultation Visits Improve Strategic Planning
USAID/Ethiopia is using a purposeful collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) approach to develop its second generation Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS 2.0)…
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Building a Better Business Environment in Serbia through CLA
USAID’s Business Enabling Project (BEP), implemented by Cardno, is a seven-year initiative launched in 2011. BEP has helped Serbia to develop the critical elements for economic…
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Walking the Walk: Building Internal Capacity for Performance Improvement
USAID staff are most often hired for their technical mastery, yet many of their day-to-day tasks require management and relationship-building skills. This gap is evident in the…
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Understanding Social Infrastructure to Increase Uptake of Improved Technologies
The traditional role of cooperatives has provided farmers with collective bargaining power. Cooperatives are now playing an increasingly significant role as a trusted vehicle to…
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Making Connections, Measuring Results: CLA in a Food Security Program in Zambia
This case concerns the USAID-funded, Feed the Future Zambia Mawa Project (2012-2017), implemented in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The project was designed to positively impact…
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A Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Approach to a Gender Workshop
USAID/Indonesia conducted a Gender CLA Workshop to follow up on the recommendation of a Mission gender self-assessment conducted in 2015, which highlighted the need for more…
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Cost-Savvy Learning and Adapting Maximizes Impact in Rural Paraguay
Midway through a five-year, $10 million cooperative agreement to increase the incomes of small producers, and with mounting concerns about project performance, USAID/Paraguay…
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2017 CLA Case Competition Announcement Webinar Recording and Slides
The winners and finalists of the 2017 CLA Case Competition were announced in a webinar on Tuesday, September 12th.
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What Can the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Tell Us About Collaborating, Learning and Adapting in USAID Missions?
The concept of collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA), introduced by USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) in 2012, has served to operationalize and strengthen…