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What USAID is Doing to Learn from Evidence
In my nearly 15 years working at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), I have seen a range of approaches to, and emphasis on, evaluation at the Agency. Now…
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ResilienceLinks: A New Knowledge Platform for Global Resilience
Resilience – the ability to manage through crisis without compromising future wellbeing – is increasingly recognized as an essential part of global development. Droughts, flooding,…
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Four Things to Know about Learning Agendas
This blog was cross-posted from Urban Wire, The Voices of Urban Institute's Researchers and Staff.Federal agencies are incorporating evidence in their daily operations and agency…
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Creating Learning Agendas that will be USED
USAID is a learning organization and has made great strides in this area via the application of Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) and the proliferation of Learning Agendas…
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Diagnostic, Prescriptive, Predictive, and Evaluative: Types of Learning Questions for Projects and Activities
Learning from evidence and experience has always been part of the discipline of international development. In recent years, though, USAID Staff and USAID implementing partners have…
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Straight off the Shelf: Unpacking your Utilization-Focused Learning Agenda
Previously we shared some of our reasoning behind the U.S. Global Development Lab’s efforts to develop a Utilization-Focused Learning Agenda (ÜFLA), which emphasizes program design…
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What the CLA Case Competition Winners Tell Us about the Journey to Self-Reliance
In September 2019, USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning and the LEARN contract announced the winners for the 2019 CLA case competition. This was the fifth year of the…