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Adaptable Mechanisms: An Update
This webinar and discussion with the Office of Acquisitions and Assistance provides an update on adaptable mechanisms, as of May 2015, including a discussion on new mechanism types…
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Empowering Chiefs and Traditional Leaders Revolutionizes Sanitation Program
Akros has been working in Zambia in Community-Led Total Sanitation towards improving uptake of open defecation free (ODF) status at the village level. Our innovative approach…
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Integrated Planning and Budgeting Strengthens District Operational Plans in Uganda
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program, a USAID-funded project in Uganda, carried out a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) study to assess the…
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Doing Development Differently: A Great Discussion on Adaptive Management
Went to a fascinating workshop last week on ‘adaptive management’ hosted and designed by USAID as part of their work on Knowledge, Information and Data and facilitated by …
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Of Sasquatches and Flexible Programming: A Genuine Sighting
This piece, by Lisa Denney, originally appeared on Oxfam's blog on October 28, 2015.Much has been written recently on the need for more flexible and adaptive development programming…
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Q&A from "CLA Global Status" Webinar with Stacey Young
This resource document is available to USAID staff only. Click on the link to view the document on ProgramNet.
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Grants Improve Decentralized Service Delivery: Evidence from Uganda
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program is a 6-year USAID-funded project in Uganda. The program is USAID’s vehicle for empowering local governments in…
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Managing Knowledge for Program Results
CARE's SHOUHARDO program works with the generous funding of USAID in Bangladesh to reduce stunting and malnutrition. The project uses a detailed knowledge management strategy to…
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Fostering Reflective Practice in Complex Development Programming: Zambia's Mawa Project
This case is concerned with Catholic Relief Services’ learning around a safe-fail pilot of the use of evaluative thinking (ET) in the Feed the Future ‘Mawa’ Project located in the…
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Towards a Productive Collaboration in Research and Implementation of Climate-Smart Conservation Agriculture in Sierra Leone
The case study examines the research support by Cornell University to CARE Sierra Leone’s work as an implementing partner to the USAID-funded STEWARD project in Guinea and Sierra…