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Expanding the Reach of CLA Through Wide Stakeholder Engagement
The USAID Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Framework and Maturity Tool provides an engaging participatory approach to assist missions in being more…
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How CLA Improves USAID's Effectiveness
With the impetus to “do development differently,” USAID’s Bureau for Policy Planning and Learning (PPL) introduced the collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) approach in 2011…
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Demystifying Social Network Analysis in Development: Five Key Design Considerations
We all know relationships matter––whether with our colleagues, friends or family. We also know that in international development relationships inside an organization or between…
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Building Healthy Cultures to Enable CLA: New CLA Toolkit Resources
Imagine you’ve just joined a well-resourced team brimming with experienced, super-smart colleagues. You’re excited for the new opportunity, but not sure what to expect. After…
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Knowing When to Adapt
It seems that adaptive management is all the rage lately. And while we know the different ways to do it, we don’t know necessarily what it takes. This begs the question: what are…
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Easy As 1-2-3: Three Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation Tools for Your Next Conference
How many conferences have you been to in your career so far? No matter the number, you know conferences can feel overwhelming—with hundreds or even thousands of attendees and a…
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CLA in USAID/Cambodia Site Visit Reporting and Utilization
Every USAID Mission conducts site visits. Site visits are an important tool for learning about project and activity implementation, but sometimes the documentation and follow-up…
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Help! One of My Colleagues is Leaving, and I Don’t Want to Lose Any of Their Information
You’re in luck! We just released a set of two related resources for employees dealing with transition: a Knowledge Management Sustainability Tracker and a Handover Note Template…
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The Zine: How to Use Your Visual Brain to Improve Reporting & Intentional Learning
Kat Haugh is a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Specialist on the USAID LEARN contract.We all have them: that 50-page report sitting on your desk that you’ve…
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Refocusing an Economic Growth Strategy through CLA
The USAID Mission in Lebanon needed to rethink and redesign its strategic approach to its Economic Growth (EG) program, particularly because Lebanon is facing a “jobs crisis” that…