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RAPID Decision-Making: What It Is, Why We Like It, and How to Get the Most Out of It
Decision making can be challenging for nonprofit leadership teams. But using tools—like RAPID®—can help nonprofit leaders and managers identify the activities that must occur in…
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Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) Inception Report
GKI takes a challenge-focused approach across programs. This aligns with USAID’s CLA objectives, and can snap temporally to the USAID Program Cycle. GKI’s Context-Collaboration…
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CLA for Sustained Impact and a Model for Issue-Based Policy Making in Africa
The International Republican Institute (IRI) has a long record of helping civil society, the legislature and political parties in Somaliland to operate in a manner that is…
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Developmental Evaluation: A Practical Approach to CLA Implementation
How can Developmental Evaluations support Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) in our work? This short briefer illustrates the ways and means Developmental Evaluations can…
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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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Building a Learning Community in Liberia Through Partnerships at iCampus
Accountability Lab Liberia (ALab) and iLab Liberia established iCampus- a shared innovation, co-working and community space for organizations focusing on the intersection of…
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Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting to Improve Organizational Effectiveness
What does it take to increase income, improve food security and nutrition, raise literacy rates, or decrease malaria? To achieve these goals, we design programs that logically lay…
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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…