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Expanding the Reach of CLA Through Wide Stakeholder Engagement
The USAID Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Framework and Maturity Tool provides an engaging participatory approach to assist missions in being more…
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What’s Your Pathway to CLA?
At the beginning of a new year, we are encouraged to make a fresh start. This year, I’m not picking up something new, but rather taking a different outlook to my ongoing work.To get…
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Improving Your Interview Game: One Rule and Five Tricks of the Trade
If adaptive management is about responding to changes, we need information about those changes -- and good information at thatOne method that is used often and is particularly well…
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Enter the 2019 Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Case Competition!
Does your team pause and reflect for programmatic adaptations?Are you building self-reliance through strategic collaboration with local partners?Are you creating a learning culture…
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New Online Training: Introduction to Collaborating, Learning and Adapting in the Program Cycle
Are you looking to build your collaborating, learning and adapting skills?Do you know how CLA relates to USAID’s Program Cycle?Do you want to start integrating CLA practices into…
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How CLA Improves USAID's Effectiveness
With the impetus to “do development differently,” USAID’s Bureau for Policy Planning and Learning (PPL) introduced the collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) approach in 2011…
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Demystifying Social Network Analysis in Development: Five Key Design Considerations
We all know relationships matter––whether with our colleagues, friends or family. We also know that in international development relationships inside an organization or between…
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Building Healthy Cultures to Enable CLA: New CLA Toolkit Resources
Imagine you’ve just joined a well-resourced team brimming with experienced, super-smart colleagues. You’re excited for the new opportunity, but not sure what to expect. After…
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Knowing When to Adapt
It seems that adaptive management is all the rage lately. And while we know the different ways to do it, we don’t know necessarily what it takes. This begs the question: what are…
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If the Journey to Self-Reliance is to Succeed, We Need to Strengthen Local Capacity to Collaborate, Learn, and Adapt
USAID’s approach to development - the Journey to Self-Reliance - focuses our collective efforts on building the capacity and commitment of partner countries to lead their own…