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NASA Knowledge Toolkbox
This Knowledge Toolbox from NASA contains tools, resources, and information for individuals and teams to enhance their knowledge sharing efforts on real life projects and…
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The Five Whys Technique: Using Feedback to Find a Manageable Problem
This post, by Renee Ho, originally appeared Feedbacklabs.org on January 5, 2016.Like many others, you want to make sure the problem you’re working on matters to …
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Introducing an improved Ask & Answer!
Have you ever wondered how other organizations capture knowledge? Or what it takes to build a learning network? Or how to budget for a Learning Advisor?As development practitioners,…
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Collaborative Overload
This piece, by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant, was originally published in the January-February 2016 Issue of the Harvard Business Review.Collaboration is taking over…
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What Difference Does Good Monitoring and Evaluation Make to World Bank Project Performance?
For more than 20 years, the development community has claimed that monitoring and evaluation helps projects achieve their objectives. This study uses data from 1,300 World Bank…
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USAID’s Local Solutions Seeks Government Performance Monitoring Tools and Approaches
Local Solutions is the name for a USAID approach to carrying out our work in ways that support and enable countries to sustain their own development. Initially launched as…
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Closing the Learning Loop: Principles and Practice with Chris Collison
Flexible program design and iterative implementation driven by practical learning are becoming increasingly valuable in international development, so says Knowledge Management…
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Glossary of Development Project Management Terms
A complete glossary of terms and definitions for all who want to learn more about project management applied in the development sector.
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What USAID has Learned from its Public-Private Partnership Data
This blog was originally posted on Devex Impact on August 3, 2016.At the U.S. Agency for International Development, we are committed to a data-driven and evidence-based approach to…
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Monitoring and Evaluation for Adaptive Management: 8 Promising Practices
In 2015 the Office of Learning, Evaluation, and Research began the Complexity-Aware M&E (C-AM&E) Initiative to learn about using, supporting, and spreading innovative M&…