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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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Shock Responsive Programming and Adaptive Mechanisms
This guidance is intended to inform USAID staff, especially Mission project design and management teams and OAA staff, on options for designing flexible, shock responsive programs…
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Creating an Adaptive, Action-Oriented Team
This one-pager was created by Rebecca Herrington on behalf of the Developmental Evaluation Pilot Activity. You can find more information on developmental evaluation here.
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DRG Learning Agenda Literature Review: Combatting Corruption Among Civil Servants - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on What Works
In 2016, USAID’s Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance launched its Learning Agenda—a set of research questions designed to address the issues that…
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Grantcraft Guide to Community Philanthropy for Donors
This paper is for donors looking for ways to ensure that our interventions produce lasting results that are owned and directed by the people they are meant to benefit. It offers…
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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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Plausible Contribution Memo
In its efforts to advance understandings of how to measure the effects and effectiveness of collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) on development results, the CLAIM Learning…
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Experiences with Political Economy Analysis (PEA)
Some of the PEA's at USAID Missions have included:
Colombia in post conflict and local governance
Indonesia in maternal and child health
Serbia in rule of law
Sri…
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Measuring the Contribution of CLA to Organizational & Development Outcomes: What have we learned? Reflections from Pollen Group and Canopy Labs
This 2-pager describes Pollen Group's measurement approach in the CLAIM learning network.
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Measuring the Contribution of CLA to Organizational & Development Outcomes: What have we learned? Reflections from MercyCorps
This 2-pager describes Mercy Corp's measurement approach in the CLAIM learning network.