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CLA Framework, Maturity Tool and Spectrum Handouts
USAID/PPL/LER and its support mechanism, LEARN, have developed a Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Framework and Maturity Tool to help USAID missions think more…
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Webinar: Scenario Planning and the CDCS
The three Missions (Colombia, DRC, and Zimbabwe) developed contingency scenarios to adapt to uncertainty related to changing political space due to conflict, peace agreement…
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How-To Note: CDCS Mid-Course Stocktaking
The Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Mid-Course Stocktaking How-To Note provides guidance on planning and conducting a mid-course stocktaking. The process described…
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How-To Note: Strategy-Level Portfolio Review
This How-To Note supplements ADS 201.3.2.18. It presents guidelines and recommended practices in planning and implementing a mission-wide strategy-level portfolio review. These…
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USAID/Malawi's Experiment in Integration to Foster Collaboration and Improve Programmatic Decision-Making
After fifty years of development work in Malawi, it was clear that traditional development structures were failing to lift Malawians out of the poverty trap. So the Mission asked,…
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How-To Note: Prepare and Maintain a Performance Management Plan (PMP)
A Performance Management Plan (PMP) is a Mission-wide tool for planning and managing the process of (1) monitoring strategic progress, project performance, programmatic assumptions,…
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Drafting a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Plan and CLA Plan Template
This content is currently under revision to align with the recently updated ADS 201.
For guidance and support associated with revisions to ADS 201, please see the Program Cycle…
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Adaptive Management at the Strategy Level: Portfolio Reviews and Mid Course Stocktaking
On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. EST, the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) held a one-hour webinar exploring Strategy-level Portfolio Reviews and Mid…
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USAID CDCS Mid Course Stocktaking: What We've Learned So Far & How To Get Started
CDCS mid-course stocktaking has emerged as one approach to assessing ongoing strategy and program implementation, particularly in light of contextual changes and emerging lessons…
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Implementing Partner Update: CDCS Development and the Journey to Self-Reliance
USAID’s Office of Strategic and Program Planning (SPP) in the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) has prepared a Partner Update video on USAID’s new, streamlined approach…