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Using Open-Space for Strategy Development in Indonesia
In 2012, USAID/Indonesia began developing its current Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) in an environment of uncertainty and opportunity. The Government of Indonesia…
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Are Development Practitioners Afraid of Failure?
This blog first appeared on BEAM Exchange on February 11, 2016.Are you ready to drive change and take risks?'Failure to launch' or 'failing forward' are concepts closely…
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CLA in Uganda: Creating Feedback Loops for Real-Time Adaptation
On Wednesday, February 24th, I had the opportunity to participate in a USAID presentation that sought to raise up successful uses of collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) in…
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Leading organisational change in practice. Some ideas.
This blog, by Pete Vowles, was originally published here on Medium.com on March 5, 2016.There were 5.6 billion returns to my recent Google Scholar search for ‘leading change’ with…
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Searching for Common Ground in Lebanon: CLA Practices for Peacebuilding
Participatory, reflective practices are essential in Search for Common Ground (SFCG)’s work in peace-building. These practices help SFCG teams adapt to rapidly changing contexts and…
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Good Governance Barometer Guide
The Good Governance Barometer (GGB) is a both a social accountability tool and a development planning tool. Through a participatory modeling and evaluation process, FHI 360 has used…
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Results from Senegal PGP DRG Integration Pilot Activity
This brief summarizes the results of the successful DRG Integration Pilot implemented by FHI 360 as part of the USAID Program for Governance and Peace (PGP). The pilot activities…
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Learning Plan for the Open Contracting Partnership
The Open Contracting Partnership is driven by two goals, as articulated in its 2015-2018 strategy: building global norms and demand for open contracting; and strengthening…
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Knowledge Management at NASA: It Ain’t Rocket Science
NASA does Knowledge Management (KM)—and they do it well—because lives are at stake. With one of the strongest KM reputations out there, NASA recently presented for the USAID…
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To What Extent Does CLA Improve Development Outcomes? Reflections on Systems Thinking and Wicked Problems
After a recent Systems Thinking workshop at the State Department, I came home to find one of my favorite necklaces tangled into an impossible metal ball. Every time I tried to…