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What’s Your Pathway to CLA?
At the beginning of a new year, we are encouraged to make a fresh start. This year, I’m not picking up something new, but rather taking a different outlook to my ongoing work.To get…
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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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New Online Training: Introduction to Collaborating, Learning and Adapting in the Program Cycle
Are you looking to build your collaborating, learning and adapting skills?Do you know how CLA relates to USAID’s Program Cycle?Do you want to start integrating CLA practices into…
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If the Journey to Self-Reliance is to Succeed, We Need to Strengthen Local Capacity to Collaborate, Learn, and Adapt
USAID’s approach to development - the Journey to Self-Reliance - focuses our collective efforts on building the capacity and commitment of partner countries to lead their own…
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Easy As 1-2-3: Three Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation Tools for Your Next Conference
How many conferences have you been to in your career so far? No matter the number, you know conferences can feel overwhelming—with hundreds or even thousands of attendees and a…
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Help! One of My Colleagues is Leaving, and I Don’t Want to Lose Any of Their Information
You’re in luck! We just released a set of two related resources for employees dealing with transition: a Knowledge Management Sustainability Tracker and a Handover Note Template…
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Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) in Crisis Response and Recovery
Resilience, as defined by USAID, is “the ability of people, households, communities, countries and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses in a manner…
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Learning Agendas Across Federal Agencies
With the passage of the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act in January 2019, each federal agency is now required to have an agency-level “evidence-building plan” -- in other words, a…
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The Winners of the 2018 Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Case Competition are…
Amy Leo is a Communications Specialist on the USAID LEARN contract and Reena Nadler is a Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning Specialist on USAID's CLA Team in the…
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Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting: When does it become too much?
Now that collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) practices are taking hold more and more across USAID and its implementing partners, we are finding ourselves in conversations…