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Can the Development Community Move from Talking about CLA to Truly Living by its Credo? Marcos Moreno Shares Practical Advice.
This blog post was cross-posted from Chemonics's website. Marcos Moreno is an agriculture and youth development expert with more than 25 years of experience, including 15 years…
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Two Steps to Strategic Collaboration: How to Be More Collaborative Without Scheduling One More Meeting
Collaboration is the component of the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Framework that we tend to skip over because it seems like common sense. After all, most of us are…
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Adaptive Learning? Liberia Can Teach the World a Thing or Two!
This blog was cross-posted from iCampus.In the summer of 2017, the Accountability Lab Liberia and iLab Liberia teams conducted a learning mapping to…
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There is no such thing as a dumb question!
According to Carl Sagan, in his 1997 book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, there are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions…
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Four Tips for a Winning CLA Case Competition Submission
These four tips address the most common issues we see in Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Case Competition submissions. So, in the final weeks before the…
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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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Collaborating to Improve Development in Tanzania
Andrew L. Greer, Ph.D. is a Program Specialist in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for the Learning Division in USAID's Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and…
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Attending to Interrelationships, Perspectives, and Boundaries: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Principle
Bob Williams and Heather Britt discuss how systemic monitoring can enhance your performance monitoring system. Complexity-aware monitoring helps us to understand inter-relationships…
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Navigating Complexity: Adaptive Management at the Northern Karamoja Growth, Health, and Governance Program
Development actors increasingly agree that managing programs adaptively – especially complex interventions – can improve their effectiveness. A growing body of evidence supports…
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USAID Scientific Research Policy
The Scientific Research Policy is written for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) staff and implementing partners. The purpose of this document is to…