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How Adaptive Management Became a Seed Bed for Project Improvement
The Upscaling Technologies in Agriculture through Knowledge and Extension (UPTAKE Project) was established under USAID’s New Alliance ICT Extension Challenge Fund to expand…
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Reshaping Watershed Restoration in Jordan
Women constitute just 16% of Jordan’s formal workforce, a staggeringly low number. Women are also missing from the decision-making sphere of managing natural resources, especially…
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Transforming Communities and Staff One Latrine at a Time in Rural Angola
Since 2016, Episcopal Relief & Development and the Igreja Evangélica Anglicana em Angola have been implementing Maza yi Moyo, a four-year community-led and managed project to…
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Encouraging a CLA Culture
Rural areas of the African Sahel suffer from many hardships that dampen community resilience, leaving households prone to socioeconomic shocks. USAID’s Resilience in the Sahel…
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A Culture of Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptability: Examples from Lebanon
Search for Common Ground has long implemented a culture of collaborative, reflective learning around programming and across its country offices. This case story highlights recent…
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Realigning Strategy to Respond to Market Realities: Agricultural Inputs Uganda
In June 2015, the USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity was reaching its midway point, and the team commissioned a Strategic Assessment to determine if the…
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Enhancing the Education Ecosystem through a Global Dialogue
The Education Performance Improvement, Communications and Knowledge (EPIC) contract supports USAID's Office of Education (E3/ED) and its missions in the areas of organizational…
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Cultivating a CLA Culture to Ensure Results: The NAFAKA Evolution
When a long-standing team needs to shift its approach for a transition from one project to another, how do you create a culture that enables this evolution? This is the challenge…
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Failing Forward: How CARE is Focusing on What Goes Wrong to Improve Impact
CARE's Failing Forward initiative is sparking opportunities to showcase the ideas that don't work so we can spend more time implementing the ones that do. It's changing the…
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Removing the blinders: Transitioning NAFAKA II to an evidence-based project.
The ability to design impactful interventions and make adaptive decisions during implementation requires a solid technical evidence base and an inquisitive implementation process…