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Adaptive Management: If Not Now, When?
This blog is the sixth and final in an ongoing series exploring the components of USAID's Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Framework. Here is the first blog on organizational…
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Why M&E is LAME (Or Should Be...)
This piece, by Matt Haikin, originally appeared on ICTworks.org on October, 29, 2015.M&E is lame...as is MEL, MERL, MEAL, PME, and PM&E. Why do we do M&E? …
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Are Development Practitioners Afraid of Failure?
This blog first appeared on BEAM Exchange on February 11, 2016.Are you ready to drive change and take risks?'Failure to launch' or 'failing forward' are concepts closely…
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What is this thing called 'Theory of Change'?
This piece originally appeared on the author's blog on March 9, 2016. It has been cross-posted with permission. Within the philanthropy, not-for-profit and government sectors…
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Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security: KM Assessment
The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security project is a global support mechanism for Feed the Future focused and aligned Missions and other USAID offices and bureaus…
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Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security: KM Implementation Plan
The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security project offers tailored analysis, institutional strengthening, capacity building, stakeholder engagement, and strategic…
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Partnering to Help Partnership Builders: A Peer Assist for Private Sector Engagement
The Global Partnerships team in the U.S. Global Development Lab has organized the Private Sector Engagement Forum (PSEF) every other year since 2009. Overall, it has been a highly…
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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee
This piece, by Rebecca Knight, was originally published on hbr.org on January 15, 2016.When a valuable employee tells you she’s leaving, worrying about losing her institutional…
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What Does the Literature Say about Collaborating, Learning and Adapting? (Fall 2017 Update)
Did you know that purposeful reflection on one’s accumulated experience leads to greater learning than the accumulation of additional similar experience? This is one of the…
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USAID Program Cycle Learning Agenda
To ensure that USAID is learning from the implementation of the Program Cycle and filling in knowledge gaps around what can be improved in the current iteration of the…