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Effective Leadership is about the Team and its Purpose, not the Leader
Piers Bocock is Chief of Party of the USAID LEARN contract.The purpose of this blog post is to confirm and share some exciting news about the USAID LEARN contract. On October 1,…
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Enter the 2019 Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Case Competition!
Does your team pause and reflect for programmatic adaptations?Are you building self-reliance through strategic collaboration with local partners?Are you creating a learning culture…
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Enter the 2017 Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Case Competition
Do you collaborate, learn, and adapt in your work? We want to hear about it!The submission period for the 2017 Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Case Competition kicks off on…
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How Three Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Approaches Help USAID Support Countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance
At USAID’s recent Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) event, Moving the Needle (MTN) 2019, we not only chanted refrains about CLA to the beat of DC go-go, we also learned,…
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Measuring the Unmeasured: Assessing the Value of Evidence for Social Impact
Over the course of five years and to the tune of more than a million dollars in funding, three research teams from Kenya and Tanzania worked to catalogue the DNA sequences of…
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Options for Adapting the Collaborating, Learning & Adapting (CLA) Maturity Self-assessment Process
When it’s time to decide what to give my (Amy’s) kids for dinner, there are two ways to go about it. One approach is to ask them what they want to eat. Their response to this…
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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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Piloting CLA Awards in The Philippines
Pilot builds on CLA best practicesPanagora Group holds the USAID CLAimHealth contract, which supports the agency to effectively implement its health portfolio in the Philippines…
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Advancing Work with the Grain at USAID
In December 2017, I wrote a blog about some of the insights gained during a workshop on Context-Driven Adaptation, where many of our sharpest field officers shared the ways that…
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CLA and Enterprise Risk Management: How USAID Takes Risks in an Uncertain World
USAID operates in a world of complexity and uncertainty. Every day, the Agency is called upon to manage risk: as we plan strategies and design projects, as we implement activities…