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Afro-Colombian Cocoa Farmers Form Private-Public Partnership in the Conflict-Affected Municipality of Tumaco
As part of a larger initiative managed by USAID/Colombia, one of the explicit strategic objectives has been to identify innovative ways to attract and retain private sector…
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Adaptive Programming: The “Space of Possibility”
Sara Mizuta Seavey, M.A., is a Senior Program Officer at FHI360 for the Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project, where she works with USAID…
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Using a CLA Approach to Improve Literacy in Uganda
For the USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program (SHRP), adapting to improve results is at the core of everything we do, and at the core of what have now become national…
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Mission-Based Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Platforms Assessment Report
In 2016, the Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) commissioned an internal stocktaking of USAID's mission-based MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) Platforms. A MEL…
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Using CLA Approaches to Increase Responsible Gold from Congo
International policymakers, civil society, and end-users are increasingly aware of the role that minerals from the high-risk conflict zones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo …
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Collaborating to Build Local Government Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity in Peru
USAID’s evaluation policy and the integration of aid effectiveness principles in our work created an important impetus for…
How USAID is Hacking International Development from the Inside Out
This is the pilot episode of the first USAID Learning Lab podcast series.
Collaborating, learning, and adapting, or CLA, is an approach that recognizes the complexities of…
How (and Why) is USAID Learning?
First, we look at learning at the project level. Listen as Nathan Morrow, an associate research professor at Tulane University and finalist in the 2016 CLA Case Competition,…
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Adapting to learn and learning to adapt: Practical insights from international development projects
Adaptive programming and management principles focused on learning, experimentation, and evidence-based decision making are gaining traction with donor agencies and implementing…
USAID/E3's Biodiversity Cross-Mission Learning Program
The concept for this video was a winning submission from the 2015 CLA Case Competition. The video highlights CLA in action through the Conservation Enterprises Cross-Mission…