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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…
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Using the Performance Management Plan to Help Staff Think Outside the Box and Inside the Venn Diagram
Many of us strive to learn from challenges, successes, and failures in our development programming, and use these learnings as opportunities to adapt programs for better development…
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Adapting Monitoring Systems During COVID-19 in Bangladesh
By March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had reached Bangladesh, and the offices of the Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock Productivity for Improved Nutrition Activity had closed…
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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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Measuring the Unmeasured: Assessing the Value of Evidence for Social Impact
Over the course of five years and to the tune of more than a million dollars in funding, three research teams from Kenya and Tanzania worked to catalogue the DNA sequences of…
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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…
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Listen Carefully, Tread Lightly, Adapt Quickly: CARE's Approach to Adaptive Management
My first job in development was as an “Institutional Memory Specialist” (a fancy title to avoid calling me “intern in charge of finding paperwork”) in Bamako, Mali. On my first day,…