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How Adaptive Management Became a Seed Bed for Project Improvement
The Upscaling Technologies in Agriculture through Knowledge and Extension (UPTAKE Project) was established under USAID’s New Alliance ICT Extension Challenge Fund to expand…
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Increasing Advocacy Impact through Networks in Lebanon – A Collaborative and Adaptive Learning Process
Developing effective advocacy networks in a country like Lebanon with strong sectarian and confessional divides is difficult, but when challenged with an approach to network…
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MECap Final Report-2015-2020
What was MECap?The Expanding Monitoring and Evaluation Capacities (MECap) task order was launched in Fiscal Year 2015 by the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) to…
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Water for Life: Using CLA to Transform a WASH System into a Self-Reliant Apparatus
In the remote, highland areas of Bandarban District in southeastern Bangladesh, home to a dozen distinct ethnic groups, the USAID-funded Development Food Security Activity,…
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Working Outside of the Box: Adapting a Health Program to Become Market-Aware
Global Communities' Kenya DREAMS project was an unlikely candidate to attend the 2018 SEEP-supported workshop on Minimum Standards for Economic Recovery (MERS). Firstly, DREAMS is…
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Incorporating Local Voices in Country Development Cooperation Strategy
USAID/Philippines conducted a nationwide listening tour engaging hundreds of local people – citizens, community leaders, local officials, and private sector – to hear directly from…
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USAID/Armenia’s community-led development approach
USAID/Armenia’s CLA case illustrates Mission’s experience in operationalizing the Agency’s locally-led development agenda. It explores what worked well and what could have been…
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Nothing about us, without us
The Peacebuilding Project is designed to be locally led and community driven, employing local staff and partnering with national and departmental civil society organizations to…
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Learning by Doing: Adaptive Management in Kosovo
In 2017, USAID/Kosovo piloted the use of the Cost-Plus Award Fee (CPAF) contracting mechanism with its Transparent, Effective, and Accountable Municipalities (TEAM) activity -…
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Making the Shift in Local Capacity Strengthening: Tool
During the first annual Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS) Policy Learning and Feedback Forum in 2023, USAID asked partners and staff what shifts in practices the LCS Policy calls…