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Facilitative Leadership - Using Facilitation to Enable Strategic Collaboration
The Africa Lead program, Feed the Future’s primary capacity building program in sub-Saharan Africa, has found how to use facilitation strategically - what they call facilitative…
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Never Have I Ever Enjoyed a Training This Much
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…
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CLA Maturity Tool Facilitator Resources
Facilitators can use the resources on this page support the CLA self-assessment and action planning process. They include:
CLA Maturity Tool Instructions
A step-by-step guide to…
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Rapid Management Reviews: Unstick CLA to Release Human and Organizational Potential
Collaboration is great when it works. But, well, life can be awful when things are not going well between USAID and a critical implementing partner. It happens more often than we…
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Learning (in the) Lab: A Utilization-focused Learning Agenda Playbook [External Version]
Compiled in partnership between the U.S. Global Development Lab’s Office of Evaluation and Impact Assessment (Lab/EIA) and the USAID LEARN contract, Learning (in the) Lab: A…
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How Can I Engage Members of a Community of Practice to Participate?
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…
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Outreach Invitation Letter for Online Collaborative Spaces
Once your group is created, a fundamental step in the start-up process is effective outreach. This means reaching out to your core members and seed participants to invite them to…
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Supporting Communities of Practice: A TOPS Quick Guide to Linking Development Practitioners
Communities of practice can take on many different forms. However, they share a common goal: connecting people in a particular craft and/or profession to share experiences and learn…
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Dare To Share: SDC Knowledge Management Toolkit - Sharing Knowledge and Learning
This document provides an interesting matrix of tools for knowledge management and their specific suitability for individual, team, organization, preparation, action and reflection…
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Communities of Practice and Networks: Reviewing Two Perspectives on Social Learning
This paper examines two different approaches used to describe and analyse similar phenomena: ‘networks for learning’ and ‘communities of practice’. These approaches are both…