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CLA in Action: Five Missions Gather to Learn from Each Other
As my colleague Monalisa Salib had previously discussed, we on LEARN feel strongly that it is important to “walk the talk” and so I was excited when I was invited to join USAID…
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CLA is a Journey: Reflections on a CLA Peer Sharing Event
Lorine Ghabranious is a Learning Fellow with the USAID Africa Bureau and Jessica Ziegler is a Learning Specialist with the USAID LEARN contract that supports the USAID Bureau for…
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CLA and Integration: Public Sector System Strengthening at USAID/Tanzania
What does CLA look like in practice? In this video, Shannon Young, the Contracting Officer's Representative of USAID/Tanzania’s Public Sector System Strengthening (PS3) Activity,…
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When we get to CLA City…
In this third and final post about the recent CLA Peer Sharing Event attended by CLA champions in five African USAID missions, I want to share the participants’ vision for what they…
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Adaptive Management: Nice Idea, How Do You Do It?
This blog post originally appeared on the Education in Crisis & Conflict Network's website on May 10, 2016.Recent Evidence from the FieldMany practitioners struggle with program…
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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…