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USAID/Kosovo Award Fee Contract Case Study
USAID/Kosovo recently awarded a $11.9 million, 5-year Cost Plus Award Fee (CPAF) type contract for an Office of Democracy and Governance Activity. USAID/Kosovo theorizes that a CPAF…
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Building a Better Business Environment in Serbia through CLA
USAID’s Business Enabling Project (BEP), implemented by Cardno, is a seven-year initiative launched in 2011. BEP has helped Serbia to develop the critical elements for economic…
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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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From Goats to Poultry: How Transitioning to New Value Chains Enhances Livelihoods
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world; life expectancies are low, and families often struggle to meet basic…
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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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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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Leveraging the Annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Reflection and Change
USAID/Senegal harnessed the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) as a powerful tool to generate organizational and…
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Learning and Adapting Enables Civil Society Innovations in Cambodia
Development Innovations (DI) is a five-year, USAID-funded project aimed to spur innovation within Cambodia's civil society and build its capacity to design and use information and…
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Stop, Reflect, Improve: Using CLA to Engage Men to Improve Women and Children's Health
The Amalima project builds on existing communal initiatives to sustainably improve household food and nutrition security by strengthening access to and availability of food,…
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Scenario Planning for Assistance to Yemen
In the absence of a formal strategy to guide programming in the dynamic and challenging context of Yemen, the USAID/Yemen team developed a scenario plan and monitoring framework to…