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What should we focus on when we pause and reflect at different stages of activity implementation?
While supporting USAID implementing partners (IPs) in conducting pause & reflect sessions, we often hear sentiments like, “our activity just started, so there is not much to…
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Bridging the technical and the contextual in activity design in the Mekong Delta
Designing and implementing a new development project is often a challenging affair: we often work on complex issues with multiple causes and no clear, agreed upon solution, and of…
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Localization in Focus: Can We Get ‘Smarter’ on Localization?
What are our localization Smart Rules?At Social Impact, we are experimenting with how we can increase and promote localization in our work with all our funders – USAID in particular…
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Improving Evaluation Use in Senegal through Recommendations Workshops
USAID/Senegal has a broad government to government (G2G) portfolio. Two of the G2G activities were already evaluated and as USAID/Senegal…
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Three Solutions for Getting Teams to Actually Use their Data
There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that people struggle to actually use data and evidence to inform their decisions. While there are a number of reasons for this, one of…
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The Needle is Moving on CLA!
Two weeks ago, the USAID LEARN contract supported the Learning, Evaluation and Research (LER) Office in USAID’s Bureau for Policy,…
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Local Systems Framework
It’s been 10 years since USAID published the Local Systems Framework (LSF), and we are now preparing to create a new Local Systems Position Paper to revisit and refresh our position…
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Learning Agendas: The Five Most Important Things You Need to Know
In a famous Harvard Business Review article, management guru Peter Drucker told us that the private sector can learn a lot from…
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USAID/Jordan Introduction to CLA Webinar Series
This webinar series, produced by the USAID Mission in Jordan, contains seven short videos (in Arabic) that provide an overview of Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) for…
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Self-Assessment Internal Communication Tool
This reflection tool can be used to reflect with your team about internal communication practices and norms. It's a facilitated self-assessment exercise.