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Market Systems Insights for DRG - Success as a Dynamic System
This is the second blog post on what Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) can learn from market systems. The first post looked at the practice of market segmentation. I…
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Enhancing Sustainability, Obtaining Better Results, and Learning in a Real-Time Environment: USAID Malawi’s Integrated Approach Advances USAID’s Local Solutions Framework
The USAID mission in Malawi is undertaking some exciting steps to better harmonize their programming by making an integration experiment a cornerstone of its five-year strategic…
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You’ve come a long way, evaluations!
On March 30, 2016, my colleagues and I participated in an event to mark five years since the release of the USAID Evaluation Policy. USAID released a report at the event taking…
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Leveraging Data and Evidence to Drive Decision Making at USAID
This post orginally appeared on the USAID blog on May 6, 2016.Over the past five years, USAID has made significant progress in using evaluations and open data to effectively drive…
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Evaluating and Learning from USAID Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Programming
The DRG Center and the Policy Planning and Learning Bureau's Office of Learning Evaluation and Research (PPL/LER) organized a week-long Impact Evaluation Learning Clinic in Dar es…
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Making Evaluations Come to Life: An Amazing Event with USAID/Vietnam
Melissa Patsalides is the Director of USAID/PPL's Office of Learning, Evaluation, and Research.A good part of my office’s work is about helping staff gather and act on quality…
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What is the Research-Implementation Gap and Why is it Relevant to USAID Programming?
Natalie Dubois, Andres Gomez, and Sara Carlson currently support Measuring Impact II, which offers assistance for best practices in adaptive management and the use of evidence and…
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Reflecting on Five Years of the CLA Case Competition
This fall, USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning and the LEARN contract announced the winners of our annual CLA case competition. This was the fifth year of collecting…
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Supporting Self-Reliance Through Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting
How can Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) contribute to fostering a country’s Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR)? The latest Self-Reliance Learning Agenda (SRLA) product—the…
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Two Acronyms, One Goal: Applying PSE and CLA for Better Development Outcomes
With USAID’s Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Policy, we are shifting to work hand-in-hand with the private sector to design and deliver our development and humanitarian programs…