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The 2016 CLA Case Competition Winners Are...
The purpose of the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Case Competition is to source examples of CLA in action among USAID missions and implementing partners…
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Sparking Collaborative Learning and Innovation within Development
Development practitioners around the world may face similar challenges when planning, implementing, or evaluating activities. Unfortunately, there’s often neither the time nor the…
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Peer Assists Guidance
Peer assists are face-to-face or virtual gatherings that bring colleagues together to share knowledge, best practices, or lessons learned on a particular topic. They can be an…
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Communities of Practice Guidance
A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common interest and interact often to learn from each other to advance their work. A CoP typically has three…
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Putting Communities at the Heart of Learning and Adapting
CARE developed a Participatory Performance Tracker to put communities at the center of our learning and adaptation, as well as our monitoring and evaluation. The tool holds us and…
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A CLA Approach to an MEL Conference: Kudos to USAID/Jordan
USAID/Jordan’s Mission Director, Dr. Jim Barnhart speaks with Hayat Askat during the MEL Expo at the second annual USAID/Jordan Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Conference…
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Stakeholder Consultation Visits Improve Strategic Planning
USAID/Ethiopia is using a purposeful collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) approach to develop its second generation Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS 2.0)…
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How CARE Used CLA to Improve Gender Relations in Mali
Behavior change is hard, especially when you're embedded in the kind of behavior you're trying to change. Read or listen to this case summary to learn how CARE used a CLA approach…
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Collaboration for Self-reliance: How We Plan to Transition 399 Smiling Sun Clinics Into One
USAID/Bangladesh's first ever Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on designing one of the flagship activities titled- ‘Advancing Universal Health Coverage (AUHC)’ demonstrates a set of…
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Committing to Collaborative Learning to Improve Sanitation in Debre Birhan, Ethiopia
Governments, aid agencies, and service providers have long-struggled to provide reliable sanitation services to peri-urban residents. In Debre Birhan, Ethiopia only about 18 percent…