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Incorporating CLA in Solicitations
This document provides insight into how to incorporate Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) throughout solicitations. One of the most important things we can do is infuse CLA…
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DRG Center & PPL Co-Host Third Annual Impact Evaluation Clinic
During the week of February 29-March 4, USAID mission representatives from Peru, Macedonia, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador teamed up with academics, Impact Evaluation (IE)…
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Sustaining Development: Results from an Ex-Post Evaluation Among Food for Peace Development Food Assistance Projects
USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP), Local Systems Community, and the Evaluation Interest Group (EIG) hosted a presentation of key findings and recommendations from the FFP…
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Learning from Evaluations
Understanding the importance of evaluations to learn about development effectiveness is critical to USAID and its partners as it promotes learning and adapting across the agency…
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Evaluations Help USAID to be More Effective and Accountable
Kevin Smith is the USAID/PPL/LER Evaluation Team Leader.
Evaluation is a critical part of USAID’s work, enabling staff to learn about program effectiveness, identify what does and…
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2017 CLA Case Competition!
**Click here to access a recording of the announcement webinar on Tuesday, September 12th.**We were excited to receive exactly 100 submissions in the third-annual Collaborating,…
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MERLIN Helps USAID/Uganda Incorporate Innovative MERL Approaches in Project Design
Last month, implementing partners of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Innovations (MERLIN) program sent representatives to meet with USAID/Uganda to discuss challenges and…
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Using Developmental Evaluation to Reboot Theories of Change
In September 2017, the Digital Finance (DFS) team joined others in the U.S. Global Development Lab to participate in a Developmental Evaluation (DE), a CLA approach. The Uptake DE…
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Advancing Work with the Grain at USAID
In December 2017, I wrote a blog about some of the insights gained during a workshop on Context-Driven Adaptation, where many of our sharpest field officers shared the ways that…
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Four Takeaways from USAID's First Evaluation Summit
This post was written by Frank Higdon, Evaluation Team Lead, Office of Learning Evaluation and Research, Bureau for Policy, Planning and LearningAs USAID reorients how we do…