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Integrating a Gender Lens into Small and Growing Business Support Measurement
In 2018, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), launched the Gender Lens Impact Measurement…
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Community Led Development (CLD) Tools
Participatory Community LeD-Development (CLD) Assessment Tool
The Participatory CLD Assessment Tool creates dialogue among stakeholders through participatory reviews at various…
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SID KM Workgroup Event: Closing the Learning Loop: Principles and Practice - A Session with Chris Collison
Development practitioners have increasingly realized the value of flexible program design and iterative implementation driven by practical learning. These adaptive approaches are…
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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,…
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Learning to Adapt: Exploring Knowledge, Information and Data for Adaptive Programmes and Policies
Adaptive management is increasingly seen as critical capability for development programmes and policies that are more effective, efficient, relevant and sustainable. There is…
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Empowering Chiefs and Traditional Leaders Revolutionizes Sanitation Program
Akros has been working in Zambia in Community-Led Total Sanitation towards improving uptake of open defecation free (ODF) status at the village level. Our innovative approach…
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Integrated Planning and Budgeting Strengthens District Operational Plans in Uganda
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program, a USAID-funded project in Uganda, carried out a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) study to assess the…
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Grants Improve Decentralized Service Delivery: Evidence from Uganda
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program is a 6-year USAID-funded project in Uganda. The program is USAID’s vehicle for empowering local governments in…
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Managing Knowledge for Program Results
CARE's SHOUHARDO program works with the generous funding of USAID in Bangladesh to reduce stunting and malnutrition. The project uses a detailed knowledge management strategy to…
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Fostering Reflective Practice in Complex Development Programming: Zambia's Mawa Project
This case is concerned with Catholic Relief Services’ learning around a safe-fail pilot of the use of evaluative thinking (ET) in the Feed the Future ‘Mawa’ Project located in the…