Resources
Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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A Guide to Hiring Adaptive Employees
If you are involved in hiring, this tool can help you increase your chances of selecting staff members skilled in adaptive management. It will help answer the questions:
Which…
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Stakeholder Feedback: Tips for Local Partners
Stakeholder feedback is information about the experiences and opinions of the people who are supposed to benefit from your program. This resource, originally developed for the Local…
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning...and Sensing Context
Context Driven Adaptation requires embracing learning about factors beyond the results of our own interventions, within timeframes that may not be easily mapped out in advance. One…
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Power Dynamics and Project Design
The resources in this section will assist you to consider power dynamics that apply to your programming space, and ensure that your design works “with the grain” of those…
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Adapting in Practice
USAID’s work takes place in environments that are often unstable and in transition. Even in more stable contexts, circumstances evolve and may affect programming in…
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Context-Driven Adaptation Videos and Webinars
This page links to a number of webinars that describe aspects of context-driven adaptation, and videos of practitioners speaking about how they have approached adaptation in their…
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Blog Series on Thinking and Working Politically and Inclusively
Political economy analysis (PEA) and related approaches to programming (known as Thinking and Working Politically or TWP) have at times been subject to the criticism that--through…
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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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Adaptive Management: Thoughts About USAID's Evolving Program Cycle (webinar recording)
We have learned a lot in the four years since USAID’s Program Cycle reforms were introduced. While the core elements of the Program Cycle - strategic planning, project design,…
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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…