Search Learning Lab Library
Use keywords to explore a particular topic. Advanced filters will narrow your search.
23 Results
Resource
Local Solutions Learning Agenda
This document outlines a learning agenda for Local Solutions centered around a synthesis of evaluations that maps evidence (about activity design, implementation, and results) from…
Resource
Mapping the Development Journey
Read a blog post about this resource.This brief paper identifies some key learning challenges faced by large Missions and donors, and discusses how these challenges may be addressed…
Blog
Fail Again. Fail Better
“Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” --Samuel BeckettHere’s my favorite part of that quote: the ultimate goal is not a lack of failure; it’s better failures…
Blog
"I no longer consider myself poor" and Other Lessons in Sustainability
People always say it best when they are describing the change in their own lives.
“…now the community believes that women’s opinions matter…”
“…my living condition has totally…
Blog
Identifying the Best Tools and Indicators for Measuring Capacity in Complex Environments
Most global health and development projects include a capacity-strengthening component, but how well do they measure whether greater…
Resource
Evidence to Action Briefs
Evidence to Action Briefs were developed by USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning (PPL), Office of Learning Evaluation and Research (LER), in collaboration with the…
Blog
Gender Equality Impact: The Value of Organization-wide Reflection
CARE Tipping Point Bangladesh participant, and college student, Sumaiya and her family.
Photo: Mohammad Hasan ZobayerWe know that when…
Resource
The Learning Dojo: A Space for CLA "Black Belts" at USAID
In late 2016, USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning & Learning (PPL) initiated the Learning Dojo, an effort to bring together five operating units at USAID around a shared…
Blog
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…
Blog
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…