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Learning with the Community to Improve an Intervention Approach
This is a case story about using collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) to improve a community-level intervention within the Community Connector (CC) project in Uganda. CC is a…
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Cross-border Vaccinations in the Horn of Africa
Tackling polio, as well as other viruses and diseases, in cross-border areas is necessary to keep them from spreading across countries, continents, and the globe. As the Core Group…
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Encouraging a CLA Culture
Rural areas of the African Sahel suffer from many hardships that dampen community resilience, leaving households prone to socioeconomic shocks. USAID’s Resilience in the Sahel…
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Saving Lives Through Continuing Education: Supporting Nigeria’s Medical Laboratory Scientists
Medical laboratory science has been called "the hidden profession that saves lives." Medical laboratory scientists (MLS) are scientific investigators, analyzing bodily fluids and…
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Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting to Develop the Bangladesh Dairy Sector
The USAID-facilitated Bangladesh Livestock Coordination group consists of seven livestock projects funded by seven different donor agencies whose purpose is to improve the…
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How to Achieve Strategic Integration of Humanitarian and Development Funding
This case study examines the process by which USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP) and the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), together with USAID/Somalia,…
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USAID/Malawi's Experiment in Integration to Foster Collaboration and Improve Programmatic Decision-Making
After fifty years of development work in Malawi, it was clear that traditional development structures were failing to lift Malawians out of the poverty trap. So the Mission asked,…
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Cultivating the CLA Enabling Environment: USAID Uganda's Mission of Leaders Program
USAID/Uganda has invested in an ever-evolving approach to developing the enabling environment for CLA at the Mission and beyond. Through a series of inter-related, multi-format…
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Learning and Collaboration: DNA for Next-Generation Agricultural Research
The case presents the learning and collaboration as well as adoption experiences of the Africa RISING program, with a specific focus on the Ethiopian highlands project. As a…
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Embracing CLA to Drive Technology Adoption in Kenya: AflaSTOP's Experience
From the outset, the AflaSTOP project in Kenya had an ambitious vision: widespread farmer adoption of grain storage and drying technologies that impact aflatoxin – a harmful toxin…