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Hired as a new Foreign Service Officer (FSO) in 2010, I’ve attended more than my fair share of trainings throughout the years. Some good, some bad, but none that were what one would…

A steady thread throughout my career has been a passion for bringing people together for relationship building and learning. One of the ways I’ve done this is to facilitate learning…

Twice each year, the TOPS (Technical and Operational Performance Support) Program, a USAID/Food For Peace (FFP)-funded program, hosts its flagship Food Security and Nutrition (FSN)…

Conferences and events are effective ways to foster learning and knowledge exchange, but they take a lot of time and resources to pull off. That’s why getting the most out of in…

Part of sustainable development programming and strong adaptive management involves documenting and sharing important lessons learned. Ideally, projects are designed to capture…

Read the full, original blog post here.Bringing together diverse stakeholders is never simple, and doing so during a global public health crisis presents additional challenges…

The Global Partnerships team in the U.S. Global Development Lab has organized the Private Sector Engagement Forum (PSEF) every other year since 2009. Overall, it has been a highly…

If there’s one thing I’ve learned working in development, it’s that everything changes, and good programs anticipate change and roll with it. As a Democracy Specialist in Washington…

Josh Woodard is a Regional ICT & Digital Finance Advisor, Asia-Pacific with FHI360.When I first met with my counterparts at the Rockefeller Foundation and USAID earlier this…