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Drafting a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Plan and CLA Plan Template
This content is currently under revision to align with the recently updated ADS 201.
For guidance and support associated with revisions to ADS 201, please see the…
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Performance Indicator Baselines
This document provides supplemental guidance to ADS 201.3.5.7.E Indicator Baseline, and offers guidance for planning and collecting performance indicator baseline data for…
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Performance Indicator Targets
This document provides supplemental guidance to ADS 201.3.5.6 Indicator Targets, and offers guidelines and good practices for USAID and its partners to set targets for performance…
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Monitoring Data Disaggregation by Geographic Location
The Additional Help: Data Disaggregation by Geographic Location has been updated to reflect the recently updated ADS 201. The Country Example and Checklist are currently under…
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Data Security Guidance: Protecting Beneficiaries
This content is currently under revision to align with the recently updated ADS 201.
For guidance and support associated with revisions to ADS 201, please see the Program…
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A Management Compact for Advancing Adaptive Management
The Sprint Relay is a methodology that makes adaptive implementation practical. As part of a Sprint Relay, several agencies collaborate over a 100-day period (a Sprint) to…
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Assumptions, Conjectures, and Other Miracles: The Application of Evaluative Thinking to Theory of Change Models in Community Development
Unexamined and unjustified assumptions are the Achilles heel of development programs. In this paper, we describe an evaluation capacity building (ECB) approach designed to help…
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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…