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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Cracking the Nut Health: Lessons from the 2016 Conference
The learning event, Cracking the Nut Health: The Role of Communities in Building Resilient Health Systems took place July 18-19, 2016 in Washington, D.C., which focused on the three…
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Tips for Creating a Learning Agenda: Based on the findings of a Landscape Analysis of Learning Agendas at USAID
This document outlines ways a learning agenda may benefit an operating unit or team and describes characteristics of an effective learning agenda; it offers general steps to the…
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Facilitative Leadership - Using Facilitation to Enable Strategic Collaboration
The Africa Lead program, Feed the Future’s primary capacity building program in sub-Saharan Africa, has found how to use facilitation strategically - what they call facilitative…
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Aid Recipient Perspectives on Strengthening Country Systems
This is a background paper for the November 2012 USAID Experience Summit on Strengthening Country Systems. As USAID looks to strengthen country systems, it must move from its…
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Contractual Flexibility - Learning About Learning: Lessons on Implementing a KM and Learning Project from the USAID KDMD Project
As part of the Learning About Learning (L-squared) initiative, this one-pager describes the success of the KDMD experience in "contractual flexibility," including a definition,…
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Adaptive Management - Learning About Learning: Lessons on Implementing a KM and Learning Project from the USAID KDMD Project
As part of the Learning About Learning (L-squared) initiative, these one-pagers describe the success of the KDMD experience in "adaptive management," including a definition, value…
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Feedback Loops - Learning About Learning: Lessons on Implementing a KM and Learning Project from the USAID KDMD Project
As part of the Learning About Learning (L-squared) initiative, this one-pager describes lessons learned on the importance and role of feedback loops from the KDMD experience…
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Learning Networks - Learning About Learning: Lessons on Implementing a KM and Learning Project from the USAID KDMD Project
As part of the Learning About Learning (L-squared) initiative, this one-pager describes lessons learned on the importance and role of learning networks as a core KM and Learning…
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Making Use of the Portfolio: Organizational Learning at USAID
Learning from experiences to improve future actions has been a priority of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for decades. Indeed, a number of approaches to…
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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,…