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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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Three Insights on Activity Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Plans
Monalisa Salib is Social Impact's Sr. Director for Organizational Learning, USAID/LearnsUnder the USAID/Vietnam Learns contract, Social Impact recently updated its Activity…
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Supporting Local Partners with MEL: Measure What Matters Most
As new Local Works partners launch their activities focusing on strengthening community participation in newly consolidated communities in Armenia, they connect with community…
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Evaluation for Learning and Adaptive Management: Connecting the Dots between Developmental Evaluation and CLA
Since Headlight’s inception in 2019, we have honed our expertise in a few practice areas, including Developmental Evaluation (DE) and Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA)…
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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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Three CLA New Year’s Resolutions Proven to Improve your Work Life and Effectiveness in 2019
This visual summarizes key findings from the most recent CLA Case Competition Analysis. How has it been going with your New Year’s Resolutions? Research shows that about half of…