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SID KM Workgroup Event: Closing the Learning Loop: Principles and Practice - A Session with Chris Collison
Development practitioners have increasingly realized the value of flexible program design and iterative implementation driven by practical learning. These adaptive approaches are…
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Monitoring and Evaluation for Adaptive Management: 8 Promising Practices
In 2015 the Office of Learning, Evaluation, and Research began the Complexity-Aware M&E (C-AM&E) Initiative to learn about using, supporting, and spreading innovative M&…
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USAID/Zimbabwe’s Big Weeks and CLA: A Blueprint for Participatory, Scenario-Based CDCS Development
From fall 2015 through the spring of 2016, USAID/Zimbabwe developed its Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for 2016–2021. This is our first full CDCS following a three…
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DRG Integration: Case Study Synthesis Report
Recently, the DRG Center presented the findings from six DRG Integration Case Studies (Ethiopia, Indonesia, Rwanda, Guatemala, Malawi and Nepal) to 50 representatives of key USAID…
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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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Adaptive Management in the Context of Job Creation, Tunisian Business Reform & Competitiveness
Watch an interview with this activity's Contracting Officer's Representative William Baldridge:Tunisia faces a youth bulge and youth unemployment is more than 30% (and nearly 50%…
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Learning to Adapt: Exploring Knowledge, Information and Data for Adaptive Programmes and Policies
Adaptive management is increasingly seen as critical capability for development programmes and policies that are more effective, efficient, relevant and sustainable. There…
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Empowering Chiefs and Traditional Leaders Revolutionizes Sanitation Program
Akros has been working in Zambia in Community-Led Total Sanitation towards improving uptake of open defecation free (ODF) status at the village level. Our innovative approach…
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Integrated Planning and Budgeting Strengthens District Operational Plans in Uganda
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program, a USAID-funded project in Uganda, carried out a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) study to assess the…
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Grants Improve Decentralized Service Delivery: Evidence from Uganda
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program is a 6-year USAID-funded project in Uganda. The program is USAID’s vehicle for empowering local governments in…