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Five Lessons and a Lingering Question About Using the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Maturity Tool
The CLA Maturity Too strives to “walk the talk” on CLA. While many organizational assessments are completed by external management consultants, this self-assessment approach…
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Localization in Focus: Promoting Learning Communities: A Pathway Towards Localization in Mexico
This blog is part two of a six-part series on localization. Localization is a power-shifting process, where power is shifted to local actors to address development challenges. Over…
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CPR keeps CLA Alive: Creating Team Cultures that Thrive!
Do you have multiple offices or teams that are geographically dispersed around the world? Do you struggle to create environments where teams can balance churning with learning? Do…
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Localization in Focus: Two Concrete Ways Support Contracts can help USAID Missions on Localization
This blog is part three of Social Impact's six-part series on localization. Localization is a power-shifting process, where power is shifted to local actors to address development…
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Look No Further: New Guide and Toolkit are One-Stop Shop for Activity-level Pause and Reflect Processes
Pause and reflect processes are a key component of adaptive management, which USAID’s Biodiversity Division and Missions have embraced in their efforts to improve conservation…
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From Dusty Shelves to Well-Worn Resources: Knowledge Translation Turns Products into Tools
In 2020, Linda Keuntje of USAID's Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) activity conducted a desk review of knowledge translation in response to one of TNRC's learning…
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Using Digital Survey Tools to Listen to Women
In the COVID-19 context, where face-to-face surveys are no longer a safe option, digital surveys offer a timely and effective solution. At CARE, we've used mobile surveys, developed…
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Don’t Cut Culture Out of CLA
What does it mean to build a culture of continual learning within a global development program? While the concept of “culture” might not be the first thing one thinks of when…
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Lessons from the Maze
During a recent trip to a USAID Mission to support their development of a Learning Plan, the USAID/LEARN team had the opportunity to test a new (to us) experiential learning…
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Reflections on a USAID Development Journey #6: Madagascar Stories in Two Acts
Introduction to these informal notesOn Halloween 2022, I retired from working with USAID after almost 40 years, as a technical officer, a Project Design Officer and supporting the…