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Constituent Voice
Constituent Voice is a methodology developed by Keystone Accountability to enable organizations to improve results by optimizing their relationships with their constituents. The…
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Operationalizing Adaptive Management: What it takes. Why it matters.
Development actors increasingly agree that managing programs adaptively – especially complex interventions – can improve their effectiveness. A growing body of evidence supports…
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Webinar: Reform Strategies for Development Professionals: How to Plan for and Measure Change in Complex Systems
Development practitioners have increasingly realized the value of learning by doing and of incorporating flexibility into program design. These adaptive approaches have particular…
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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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Adapting Global Content to Improve the Knowledge of Ghana’s Rural Nurses
The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project, supported by USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, collaborated with Ghana Health Service and Grameen Foundation under…
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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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LEARN Activity Level MERL Plan
achieving significant development outcomes.
USAID LEARN is a five-year contract funded by USAID’s Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) through its…
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A Management Compact for Advancing Adaptive Management
The Sprint Relay is a methodology that makes adaptive implementation practical. As part of a Sprint Relay, several agencies collaborate over a 100-day period (a Sprint) to…
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Assumptions, Conjectures, and Other Miracles: The Application of Evaluative Thinking to Theory of Change Models in Community Development
Unexamined and unjustified assumptions are the Achilles heel of development programs. In this paper, we describe an evaluation capacity building (ECB) approach designed to help…