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Adaptive Learning is Taking Hold in the Development Field, but Gaps Between Theory and Practice Remain
A Princeton University professor recently tweeted a version of his CV listing his professional failures, such as the journals his papers have been rejected from, the schools he didn…
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Integrating Development Frameworks: The Next Development Innovation?
This blog post originally appeared on IRI's blog, Democracy Speaks, on Monday, June 6th. Matt Baker is a Senior Applied Learning Specialist in IRI's Monitoring and Evaluation…
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Where have we got to on adaptive learning, thinking and working politically, doing development differently etc? Getting beyond the People’s Front of Judea
This article orginally appeared on Oxfam's Blog on Thursday, June 9th.Aid, development, and governance practitioners increasingly recognize that change happens through iterative…
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Collaborating, learning, and adapting as a vehicle for integrated development
Following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the international development and disaster management communities struggled to contain the virus for over two years. Not only did the…
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Eat More Broccoli: Moving from Talking to Doing Adaptation in Delivery
Image: Vargo Degbe, from the Monrovia Ebola task force, tallies the day's case dataJust what the development community needs: another piece arguing for working in more problem…
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What do a soldier, a doctor and a pilot have in common?
Maria del Camino Hurtado is an Operations Officer at the World Bank’s Science of Delivery unit, and a team member of the Global Delivery Initiative’s Secretariat.Summer is here. You…
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Walking the Talk: LEARN’s Pause & Reflect Practices
Amy Leo is a Communications Associate on the USAID LEARN contract. She manages the content on Learning Lab and produces the Learning Matters newsletter. Click here to subscribe!As…
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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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Encouraging a CLA Culture
Rural areas of the African Sahel suffer from many hardships that dampen community resilience, leaving households prone to socioeconomic shocks. USAID’s Resilience in the Sahel…
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How do you do "Adaptive Programming?" Two Examples of Practical Experience Help with Some of the Answers
This post originally appeared on Oxfam's From Poverty to Power blog on September 13, 2016.At a glance the two DFID programmes we work on are very different. SAVI (and its…