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Adaptive Management: If Not Now, When?
This blog is the sixth and final in an ongoing series exploring the components of USAID's Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Framework. Here is the first blog on organizational…
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Evaluation and Communication Decision-Making: A Practitioner's Guide
Over a dozen case studies led to this guide, with lessons on how to mentor projects to design their utilization-focused evaluation plans, alongside their communication strategies. …
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Utilization-focused evaluation: A Primer for evaluators
Utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) facilitates a learning process in which people in the real world apply evaluation findings to their work. This Primer is for practitioner…
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Open Letter on Hybrid Facilitation
This blog post, written in the format of an open letter, offers emergent reflections, tips and considerations from our early experiences of facilitating hybrid (jointly in…
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Request for Applications
The PRO-WASH & SCALE Award is soliciting applications to co-create and carry out activities that focus on approaches or tools aimed at centering community voices within PRO-WASH…
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How to localize (and revolutionize) humanitarian aid? Insights from local actors in the Philippines
Despite global aspirations to localize humanitarian response and shift decision-making authority, leadership, and resources to local actors in the lead up to and during…
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Impact Pipeline: Investigating downstream leaks and preventing upstream leaks
A MEL and impact measurement system is like plumbing: there are many steps throughout a project lifecycle where potential impact can “leak” (go unachieved, unmeasured, or unreported…
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Capacity Development in Evaluation and Communication: Prompts for Practitioner's
This guide is meant for facilitators of capacity development and organizational learning. This includes professionals from various fields including evaluation, communication,…
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Paying for Results: Managing Risk in Fixed Amount Awards with Local Partners
This white paper explores how both USAID staff and recipients approach fixedamount awards, understand risks, and mitigate those risks during activity design andimplementation. It is…
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Stop talking and start listening
There are few certainties in life, but one I have come to recognize, is that women in crisis will always take incredible action – whether there is outside intervention or not. …