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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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Integrating Development Frameworks: The Next Development Innovation?
This blog post originally appeared on IRI's blog, Democracy Speaks, on Monday, June 6th. Matt Baker is a Senior Applied Learning Specialist in IRI's Monitoring and Evaluation…
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Where have we got to on adaptive learning, thinking and working politically, doing development differently etc? Getting beyond the People’s Front of Judea
This article orginally appeared on Oxfam's Blog on Thursday, June 9th.Aid, development, and governance practitioners increasingly recognize that change happens through iterative…
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Does evidence tell us that integrated development approaches work? It depends!
Tricia Petruney is a Technical Advisor, Research Utilization and Integrated Development with FHI 360. This blog post originally appeared on FHI 360's blog on June 6th, 2016. When we…
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Collaborating, learning, and adapting as a vehicle for integrated development
Following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the international development and disaster management communities struggled to contain the virus for over two years. Not only did the…
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Building a Culture of Evidence-Based Learning: IRI’s Center for Applied Learning and Global Initiatives
Liz Ruedy is the Director of the Office of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning at the International Republican InstituteA few years back, a joke made the rounds on the internet…
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The 2016 CLA Case Competition Winners Are...
The purpose of the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Case Competition is to source examples of CLA in action among USAID missions and implementing partners. The 2016…
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Finding Failure
Pete Vowles is the head of Head of @DFID_UK Kenya. This is not a corporate or a political blog so the opinions and ideas expressed here are absolutely his own, not those of DFID…
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CLA in Action: A Revised Theory of Change for Uganda’s Agricultural Inputs Activity
Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity CLA in Action Brown Bag Event from USAIDLearningLabThis CLA in Action case study was a finalist in the 2015 CLA Case Competition. The…
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What Difference Does Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Make to Development? Key Findings from a Recent Literature Review
With roughly 120 collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) Case Competition submissions over the last two years, we have significant anecdotal evidence that an intentional,…