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No One Can Know Everything: Collaborating for Better Evaluation Recommendations
In June 2016, USAID/Jordan decided that, while its systems were producing strong evaluations, there must be a way to further enhance the utility of the final recommendations for…
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Using Evidence & Expertise to Build a Sustainable Health Service Delivery Network
The USAID-DFID nongovernmental organization (NGO) Health Service Delivery Project (NHSDP) is USAID/Bangladesh’s flagship clinical service delivery project, offering integrated…
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Rising Coca Production and USAID/Colombia: Responding with Rapid Iterative Learning
The astonishing increase in coca leaf cultivation in Colombia over the past 3 years, coinciding with the historic peace agreement between the government and guerrilla forces to end…
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Walking the Walk: Building Internal Capacity for Performance Improvement
USAID staff are most often hired for their technical mastery, yet many of their day-to-day tasks require management and relationship-building skills. This gap is evident in the…
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Understanding Social Infrastructure to Increase Uptake of Improved Technologies
The traditional role of cooperatives has provided farmers with collective bargaining power. Cooperatives are now playing an increasingly significant role as a trusted vehicle to…
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Making Connections, Measuring Results: CLA in a Food Security Program in Zambia
This case concerns the USAID-funded, Feed the Future Zambia Mawa Project (2012-2017), implemented in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The project was designed to positively impact…
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A Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Approach to a Gender Workshop
USAID/Indonesia conducted a Gender CLA Workshop to follow up on the recommendation of a Mission gender self-assessment conducted in 2015, which highlighted the need for more…
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Cost-Savvy Learning and Adapting Maximizes Impact in Rural Paraguay
Midway through a five-year, $10 million cooperative agreement to increase the incomes of small producers, and with mounting concerns about project performance, USAID/Paraguay…
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Ma Mya - The Power of a Visual Archetype for Human-Centered CLA
Shae Thot is a $70 million USAID-supported integrated community development project working in over 2,800 villages across Central Myanmar and Kayah State. It is a complex project…
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Cultivating an ECOsystem of Adaptive Learning in the E3 Bureau
The ECO Project was designed to strengthen USAID’s development impact by ensuring high-quality learning in the environment and climate change sectors. The project worked…