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Gender and Development Dialogues: A CLA Approach for Gender Integration Among USAID Implementing Partners in Cambodia
USAID/Cambodia works with its partners to protect natural resources, improve health and nutrition, promote democracy and good governance, and help children improve their reading…
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The Refine and Implement Pilot: USAID Food for Peace’s Approach to Adaptable Mechanisms
USAID/Food for Peace’s pilot approach, Refine and Implement, builds a one-year refinement period into each activity. At the end of the year, we ask implementing partners to refine…
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Walking the Talk: An Iterative Approach to Developing the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Maturity Matrix
USAID established Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) as a practice area in 2009 to improve organizational effectiveness and development results. The USAID Bureau for Policy…
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MERLIN: US Global Development Lab Evaluation and Impact Assessment
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Innovations activity, known as MERLIN, is an effort to source, co-create, and co-design innovations in monitoring, evaluation,…
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Better Bureaus for Business Partnerships: Collaborating Across USAID to Improve the Development Impact of Private Sector Partnerships
The U.S. Global Development Lab’s Center for Transformational Partnerships (CTP) built a private sector engagement (PSE) community of practice that is a resource for USAID staff…
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What’s New? High-Frequency Mobile Communication Drives Resilience Learning in Somalia
The Somalia Towards Reaching Resilience (STORRE) activity uses CARE’s Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, Reflection, and Learning (PMERL) process to help communities evaluate…
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Training
USAID/Uganda’s Learning Contract, launched in 2013, is charged with assisting the mission to refine, scale up, and institutionalize collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA)…
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Integrating Stakeholder Engagement into the Design Process: Liberia Strategic Analysis Communities of Practice
The Ebola crisis in Liberia clarified the importance of coordination, community engagement, and mobilization for emergency response and for development. Liberia Strategic Analysis …
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Turning a Gathering Into a Party: The DME for Peace Community-Building Conundrum
In 2015, staff from the Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Peacebuilding (DME for Peace) global community of practice recognized a need to better understand the target audience…
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Science, Silver Bullets, and Sanitation: How Operational Research Improved Plan’s Global Programming
Plan International is a pioneer of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach — a method that triggers community-wide behavior change on sanitation practices, ending open…