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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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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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Turning a Gathering Into a Party: The DME for Peace Community-Building Conundrum
In 2015, staff from the Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Peacebuilding (DME for Peace) global community of practice recognized a need to better understand the target audience…
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Context Analysis and Flexible Partnership in South and Central Syria
Mercy Corps’ South and Central Syria program supports local nongovernmental and community-based organizations to provide food assistance and non-food items; water, sanitation, and…
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Test-Learn-Adapt: Achieving Inclusive Growth in Mozambique's Complex Market Reality
The USAID-funded Feed the Future Mozambique Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova) implemented by DAI, aims to improve the income of smallholder farmers in Mozambique by…
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Senegal's Cereal Farmers Use Data to Scale-up Technology Adoption for Big Results
Agricultural extension is key to spreading new technologies, promoting behavior change, and improving incomes and resilience to shocks. When national extension services frustrate…
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Intro to Applied Political Economy Analysis for Somalia Access to Justice
This short introduction to an applied political economy analysis is from the Somalia Expanding Access to Justice program, implemented by Freedom House in consortia with Pact. This…
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Applications of Forest Monitoring Tools for Development Projects
Recommendations for multilateral funding agencies to increase the use of forest monitoring tools across development sectors, as a matter of policy and practice to meet…
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A Proven Approach to Improve Quality of Health Services
The five-year USAID Health Service Delivery is designed to improve health outcomes for women of reproductive age and children under the age of five, including Syrian refugees living…
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Six Models for Understanding Impact
We often default to the assumption that our programs will lead to greater positive change over time. The rate of change may be incremental, exponential, or something else, but it’s…
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Applying CLA to Increase Private Sector Participation in Local Governance in Uganda
This case study describes how the Governance, Accountability, Participation and Performance (GAPP) Program, with funding from USAID and DFID, used a CLA approach to increase…