Moving the Needle 2016
Event Details
9:00 am EST
Important Dates
The 2nd annual Moving the Needle event convened USAID staff and implementing partners around practical examples of collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) in USAID programs and operations.
Wondering what CLA looks like in practice or how to integrate it into your work?
Moving the Needle is not a traditional conference, but rather a learning experience that will offer end-to-end examples of how strategic collaboration, continuous learning and adaptive management are supported from policy guidance, through strategy and design, to implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and adaptive management.
This year's event featured:
- The Lifecycle of a Program through the Practice of CLA: From Program Cycle Policy to Results
- Keynote Panel on Adaptive Management - featuring Duncan Green (Oxfam), Jon Kurtz (Mercy Corps), Alicia Dinerstein (USAID) and Melissa Patsalides (USAID)
- Breakout Sessions featuring the 2016 CLA Case Competition Winners and on Applying Examples of CLA to your Work
Event Agenda
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8:30-9:00 |
Registration |
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9:00-9:10 |
Welcome from Piers Bocock, USAID LEARN Chief of Party |
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9:10-9:20 |
Moving the Needle on CLA - Remarks from Patricia Rader, USAID's Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning |
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9:20-10:05 |
The Lifecycle of a Program through CLA: from Program Cycle Policy to Results |
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Break |
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10:30-11:30 |
Keynote Panel on Adaptive Management - featuring Duncan Green (Oxfam), Jon Kurtz (Mercy Corps), Alicia Dinerstein (USAID) and Melissa Patsalides (USAID) |
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11:30-12:00 |
Interacting with the CLA Framework |
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12:00-12:15 |
2016 CLA Case Competition Winners Announcement & Preview of Afternoon Breakout Sessions |
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Lunch |
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1:15-2:05 |
Breakout Sessions: 2016 CLA Case Competition Winners |
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2:15-3:05 |
Breakout Sessions: Connecting Evidence to Practice |
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Break |
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3:30-3:45 |
Video Premiere - The Biodiversity Cross-Mission Learning Program |
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3:45-4:30 |
Matching CLA Opportunities to Resources |
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4:30-4:45 |
Reflection & Implications for the Future |
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4:45-5:00 |
CLA Case Competition Fan Favorite Award Announcement & Closing |
Hosts
Patricia Rader
USAID’s Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning
Stacey Young
Senior Learning Advisor in USAID's Office of Learning, Evaluation and Research in the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning
Piers Bocock
Chief of Party, USAID LEARN
Resources
Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Framework and Maturity Matrix Overview
What Difference Does Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Make to Development? Key Findings from a Recent Literature Review
2016 CLA Case Competition Winner and Finalist Cases
WATCH: The Biodiversity Cross-Mission Learning Program
USAID's Revised Program Cycle Operational Policy (ADS 201) Webinar for Implementing Partners
Resources on the Uganda Agricultural Inputs Case Study:
Plenary Session Visual Notes
Breakout A: 2016 CLA Case Competition Winners
USAID/Zimbabwe's Big Weeks and CLA: Blueprint for Scenario-Based CDCS Development
Breakout B: Connecting Evidence to Practice
Who is Learning? Data Flows for Locally Led Development
Visit our Flickr gallery for more photos of Moving the Needle 2016
What did you like about Moving the Needle 2016?
(Positive feedback from the post-event survey)
"Getting USAID and implementing partners in the same room to discuss mutual management/implementation issues related to CLA."
"Very thoughtfully put together, wtih an opportunity to interact with implementing partners, listen to experts from various organizations, practical solutions and real examples of different assortment of CLA work."
"Very informal and comfortable environment. I felt able to speak freely, though mostly because the tension appeared to be shared between the PPL and CLA and implementing staff, and their main point of concern was the missions in the field and local hires who run these projects."
"I liked the considerable amount of listening done by all the USAID staff that were in attendance. I also appreciated having contracts people and OAA present."
"It felt very much like a challenge we are trying to address together (USAID and IPs)."
"Seeing how far CLA and adaptive management has come in USAID. Also it seems that the CLA team is working on issues similar as in my NGO and how to incorporate the practice in my agency."