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Adaptive Management: Nice Idea, How Do You Do It?
This blog post originally appeared on the Education in Crisis & Conflict Network's website on May 10, 2016.Recent Evidence from the FieldMany practitioners struggle with program…
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Adaptive Learning is Taking Hold in the Development Field, but Gaps Between Theory and Practice Remain
A Princeton University professor recently tweeted a version of his CV listing his professional failures, such as the journals his papers have been rejected from, the schools he didn…
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Leveraging Data and Evidence to Drive Decision Making at USAID
This post orginally appeared on the USAID blog on May 6, 2016.Over the past five years, USAID has made significant progress in using evaluations and open data to effectively drive…
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Our Poll Says Your Greatest Obstacle to Resourcing CLA is…
Following up on Monalisa Salib’s recent blog post about resourcing CLA, we sent the following poll to our list of 7,334 subscribers on Wednesday, May 11th:With 418 votes accounted…
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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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Integrating Development Frameworks: The Next Development Innovation?
This blog post originally appeared on IRI's blog, Democracy Speaks, on Monday, June 6th. Matt Baker is a Senior Applied Learning Specialist in IRI's Monitoring and Evaluation…
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We’re always collaborating. But how can we make it more effective?
This blog is the fourth in an ongoing series exploring the components of USAID's CLA Framework. Here is the first blog on organizational culture, the second on…
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Where have we got to on adaptive learning, thinking and working politically, doing development differently etc? Getting beyond the People’s Front of Judea
This article orginally appeared on Oxfam's Blog on Thursday, June 9th.Aid, development, and governance practitioners increasingly recognize that change happens through iterative…
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Does evidence tell us that integrated development approaches work? It depends!
Tricia Petruney is a Technical Advisor, Research Utilization and Integrated Development with FHI 360. This blog post originally appeared on FHI 360's blog on June 6th, 2016…
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Collaborating, learning, and adapting as a vehicle for integrated development
Following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the international development and disaster management communities struggled to contain the virus for over two years. Not only did the…