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What is the Work?
In promoting international development, what is the actual work we do? How is that work understood? Do our words truly reflect the work we want to see? Could a shift in this…
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Top 10 Learning Lab Resources on Capturing Program Experience
Part of sustainable development programming and strong adaptive management involves documenting and sharing important lessons learned. Ideally, projects are designed to capture…
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Piloting CLA Awards in The Philippines
Pilot builds on CLA best practicesPanagora Group holds the USAID CLAimHealth contract, which supports the agency to effectively implement its health portfolio in the Philippines…
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Learning Agenda Experiment
Development hypotheses - the "if-then" statements contained in a logic model or framework - occur not just at the higher outcome level of the framework but throughout it. I refer to…
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A New Normal: Adapting our Approach to MERLA during COVID-19
If you’d asked what we thought would be a “worst case scenario” for our work in monitoring, evaluation, research, learning & adapting (MERLA) before March of this year, we might…
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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…
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Measuring Organizational Resilience: An Update to Pact’s Organizational Performance Index
Strengthening the capacity of local partners to achieve their goals is at the heart of Pact’s approach to development. Using proven tools, we analyze organizations’ strengths and…
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"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…
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5 things we’ve learned from analyzing how we’re addressing gender inequality
The recent Gender Snapshot on progress against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is concerned that, at the current pace of…
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Measuring Organizational Performance Improvement: Perspectives from USAID Mission Staff
Measuring the effectiveness of local capacity strengthening (LCS) efforts is key to tracking USAID’s progress towards reaching long-term development outcomes. Capacity is a form of…