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Going Beyond Technical Skills: How to build an adaptive team (Inside Out Episode 1)
Episode 1 of From the Inside Out: Achieving Better Development Outcomes through Collaborating, Learning and Adapting was released today! Stream it above or subscribe to the USAID…
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Thinking and Working Politically (TWP) through Applied Political Economy Analysis (PEA) -- Guide and Supporting Materials
Have you ever done everything right in a development program — followed every technical best practice — but still missed the mark? When this happens, it often relates to factors in…
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Tackling Ebola with Locally Led Approaches: CLA Deep Dive
“Why do you only come when someone has died? Why do you not come to help when someone is sick?” This question posed by rural Liberians during the 2014-2015 Ebola crisis revealed…
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Managing Adaptively: It’s About the People! Reflections from MTN 2018
There were so many good sessions at this year’s Moving the Needle event that I know people had a hard time choosing, but those who joined us in one or both of the ‘Managing…
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Thoughts to inform USAID’s Effective Partnering and Procurement Reform
The afternoon session of MTN’s Managing Adaptively track really epitomized why USAID holds the Moving the Needle event. “Adaptive Partnering: A Conversation with USAID” was a…
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Using Evidence and Understanding Complexity: Three Questions to Guide our Work
Matthew Baker is MERL Specialist for Organizational Learning & Research on the USAID LEARN contract.If you ask people what’s in vogue in development, chances are they will…
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Planning an Unconference: Lessons for Next Time
Josh Woodard is a Regional ICT & Digital Finance Advisor, Asia-Pacific with FHI360.When I first met with my counterparts at the Rockefeller Foundation and USAID earlier this…
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What did you do during CLA Challenge Week?
In early January, we invited USAID staff and partners to kick off the new year with a new CLA practice during CLA Challenge Week, January 22-26, 2018. We called it a CLA Sprint!In…
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Making Connections, Measuring Results: CLA in Zambia
Development Challenge: Feed the Future’s Mawa Project was designed to bridge the gap between agriculture and nutrition in Zambia via interventions in farming; savings and loans;…
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Collaborating, Learning and Adapting to Build Resilience in Fragile States
Development Challenge: South Sudan is suffering from economic collapse and a man-made famine which has displaced over one-third of the population. Promoting Resilience through…