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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Adaptive Management: Thoughts About USAID's Evolving Program Cycle (webinar recording)
We have learned a lot in the four years since USAID’s Program Cycle reforms were introduced. While the core elements of the Program Cycle - strategic planning, project design,…
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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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Mercy Corps PRIME Adaptive Management Resources
By all measures, PRIME is a very complex project; a 62-million dollar project, covering five technical components, managing an innovation fund, addressing gender and disability,…
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The Facilitation Approach at USAID: A Discussion Paper
This paper provides an overview of the facilitation approach with information drawn from its use in market systems development. It is not designed to include all the relevant issues…
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How-To Note: Strategy-Level Portfolio Review
This How-To Note supplements ADS 201.3.2.18. It presents guidelines and recommended practices in planning and implementing a mission-wide strategy-level portfolio review. These…
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Adaptation in Action: Examples From Uganda
A conversation with Tracy Miller (USAID Contracting Officer); Neil Price (Deputy Director, OAA) and Tony Pryor (Training Advisor, PPL/SPP) on adaptive mechanisms, and the lessons…
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Sample M&E Position Description from Indonesia, 2015
This document is a sample PD for senior M&E position in USAID/Indonesia. It speaks about how Learning and Adaption is related to M&E duties. Such senior M&E position…
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Managing Complexity: Adaptive Management at Mercy Corps
To be effective in complex environments we need to be more agile and able to adapt to changes in needs and opportunities in a timely and intentional way.This document articulates…
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Outcomes for Money (OxM): An Unorthodox Analysis of Value for Money
This experimental methodology takes a fresh look at the notion of value for money, by redefining ‘value’ as the changes experienced in terms of new knowledge, attitudes and…
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How-To Note: Prepare and Maintain a Performance Management Plan (PMP)
A Performance Management Plan (PMP) is a Mission-wide tool for planning and managing the process of (1) monitoring strategic progress, project performance, programmatic assumptions,…