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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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Brief: Rewards and Risks Associated with Community Engagement in Anti-Poaching and Anti-Trafficking
This short technical brief summarizes the research paper “Rewards and Risks Associated with Community Engagement in Anti-Poaching and Anti-Trafficking Efforts” to explore…
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Adaptive Management in the Context of Job Creation, Tunisian Business Reform & Competitiveness
Watch an interview with this activity's Contracting Officer's Representative William Baldridge:Tunisia faces a youth bulge and youth unemployment is more than 30% (and nearly 50%…
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Theories of Change
The Theory of Change approach, with its focus on continuous critical reflection, demands a radical shift towards more and better learning in development thinking and…
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Rural Families in Guatemala Take Part in Quality of Education
Amidst disappointing data on reading proficiency among children in Guatemala, USAID constituted the Education Reform in the Classroom Project (2009-2014). Among other things, the…
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Training: Organizational Capacity Assessment
This is a web-based training on the USAID version of an Organizational Capacity Assessment, one of the most useful tools in the Local Solutions toolkit, created by the Local…
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Ma Mya - The Power of a Visual Archetype for Human-Centered CLA
Shae Thot is a $70 million USAID-supported integrated community development project working in over 2,800 villages across Central Myanmar and Kayah State. It is a complex project…
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Increasing Locally-led Development Solutions in Ethiopia
The Local Capacity Development (LCD) project has regularly employed a collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) approach in its efforts to strengthen the capacity of local…
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Refining District-Level Interventions to Strengthen Health Systems in Bangladesh
The MaMoni Health Systems Strengthening Activity (MaMoni HSS), a four-year award (2013-2017) implemented by Jhpiego and Save the Children, builds on the success of previous USAID…
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Using CLA to Achieve Program Goals in a Volatile Conflict Environment
The Syria Regional Program (SRP) operates in a rapidly changing conflict environment, presenting challenges to remain relevant and effective. We apply a Collaborating, Learning and…