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Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security: KM Implementation Plan
The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security project offers tailored analysis, institutional strengthening, capacity building, stakeholder engagement, and strategic…
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CLA is a Journey: Reflections on a CLA Peer Sharing Event
Lorine Ghabranious is a Learning Fellow with the USAID Africa Bureau and Jessica Ziegler is a Learning Specialist with the USAID LEARN contract that supports the USAID Bureau for…
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Everything I Wish I Had Known About CLA Before Going to the Field: Tales from a cautiously optimistic Foreign Service Officer who often feels overworked, under-appreciated, and stressed
Disclaimer: I’m a Foreign Service Officer working for USAID. So when I say “going to the field”, what I really mean is sitting in an Embassy for a couple years and heading out…
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Encouraging a CLA Culture
Rural areas of the African Sahel suffer from many hardships that dampen community resilience, leaving households prone to socioeconomic shocks. USAID’s Resilience in the Sahel…
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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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A Culture of Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptability: Examples from Lebanon
Search for Common Ground has long implemented a culture of collaborative, reflective learning around programming and across its country offices. This case story highlights recent…
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Realigning Strategy to Respond to Market Realities: Agricultural Inputs Uganda
In June 2015, the USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity was reaching its midway point, and the team commissioned a Strategic Assessment to determine if the…
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Cultivating the CLA Enabling Environment: USAID Uganda's Mission of Leaders Program
USAID/Uganda has invested in an ever-evolving approach to developing the enabling environment for CLA at the Mission and beyond. Through a series of inter-related, multi-format…
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It’s Not What You Know But Who: How Social Relationships Shape Research Impact
This post originally apperared on Oxfam's From Poverty to Power blog on March 6, 2017.James Georgalakis is the Director of Communications and Impact at the Institute of…
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Three [More] Myths about Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Debunked
This blog post is a second in a series of about debunking common CLA myths. See the first blog here.In working with USAID missions and implementing partners, we hear a pretty…