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Try this Tuesday: Take Five Minutes to Pause & Reflect
Did you know that taking time to pause and reflect on our work is critical to learning and improved performance?Harvard Business School researchers found that “… purposeful…
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What’s Your Pathway to CLA?
At the beginning of a new year, we are encouraged to make a fresh start. This year, I’m not picking up something new, but rather taking a different outlook to my ongoing work.To get…
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Improving Your Interview Game: One Rule and Five Tricks of the Trade
If adaptive management is about responding to changes, we need information about those changes -- and good information at thatOne method that is used often and is particularly well…
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Enter the 2019 Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Case Competition!
Does your team pause and reflect for programmatic adaptations?Are you building self-reliance through strategic collaboration with local partners?Are you creating a learning culture…
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New Online Training: Introduction to Collaborating, Learning and Adapting in the Program Cycle
Are you looking to build your collaborating, learning and adapting skills?Do you know how CLA relates to USAID’s Program Cycle?Do you want to start integrating CLA practices into…
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Knowing When to Adapt
It seems that adaptive management is all the rage lately. And while we know the different ways to do it, we don’t know necessarily what it takes. This begs the question: what are…
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If the Journey to Self-Reliance is to Succeed, We Need to Strengthen Local Capacity to Collaborate, Learn, and Adapt
USAID’s approach to development - the Journey to Self-Reliance - focuses our collective efforts on building the capacity and commitment of partner countries to lead their own…
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Adaptive Rigour: Bridging the Art and Science of Adaptive Management
This blog was originally published on Oxfam's blog. Ben Ramalingam and Leni Wild share the thinking behind a new initiative to support adaptive management in aid.Adaptive management…
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Help! I’m hiring new staff and I want them to work adaptively!
You’re in luck! We just released a new guide for hiring adaptive employees. This visual and user-friendly tool will help increase your chances of selecting staff skilled in adaptive…
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CLA training for COPs: Capacity Building in Adaptive Management For Our Most Critical Project Resources
When development projects struggle, a lot of typical weaknesses may be at fault. For instance, the design of the project—which may have been successful elsewhere—may not be…