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Learning from Evaluations
Understanding the importance of evaluations to learn about development effectiveness is critical to USAID and its partners as it promotes learning and adapting across the agency…
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Strategic Stories: How 3M Is Rewriting Business Planning
Written by Gordon Shaw, Robert Brown, and Philip Bromiley, this post originally appeared as an article at Harvard Business Review.At 3M, we tell stories. Everyone knows that, in our…
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Collaborating, Learning and Adapting at USAID: The Critical Role of Culture, Processes, and Resources
This Guest Editorial for the Food Security Network's Knowledge Management Task Force was written by Stacey Young, Senior Learning Advisor at USAID's Bureau for Policy, Planning and…
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Evaluations Help USAID to be More Effective and Accountable
Kevin Smith is the USAID/PPL/LER Evaluation Team Leader.
Evaluation is a critical part of USAID’s work, enabling staff to learn about program effectiveness, identify what does and…
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2017 CLA Case Competition!
**Click here to access a recording of the announcement webinar on Tuesday, September 12th.**We were excited to receive exactly 100 submissions in the third-annual Collaborating,…
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Rethinking the Resourcing of Civil Society
David Jacobstein is a Democracy Specialist with the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance's Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance …
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MERLIN Helps USAID/Uganda Incorporate Innovative MERL Approaches in Project Design
Last month, implementing partners of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Innovations (MERLIN) program sent representatives to meet with USAID/Uganda to discuss challenges and…
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Introducing a New USAID Learning Lab Blog Series: Framing CLA
When we explain the concept of CLA, people are often curious about what it looks like in practice. We wonder the same thing too, which is why we launched the annual CLA Case…
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How to IMPROVE Programming: USAID/Vietnam’s Performance Management Principles
Photo: USAID/Vietnam organized the quarterly Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officers (MELO) Event for officers from USAID-funded…
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1+1>2: Increasing Impact Through a Regional Development Initiative in Uganda
USAID/Uganda set out to 'do business differently' with the introduction of their latest Country Development Cooperation Strategy. Part of this philosophy involves looking at…