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Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops
This piece was originally posted on the White House blog on January 3, 2017.Thomas Kalil is the Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation for the White House Office of Science…
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How Can Organizations Encourage Adaptive Management? Three Insights from Mercy Corps’ Evolution Toward Agility
Regular readers of the USAID Learning Lab blog may agree that in these complex times our effectiveness relies on learning about, and adapting to, the unique dynamics in the contexts…
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CLA: Not Just Another HQ Initiative or Requirement
Last month, I participated in the first Agency-wide training on Collaboration, Learning and Adapting (CLA). Organized by PPL and executed by Dexis Consulting, the 3.5-day training…
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WATCH: The Biodiversity Cross-Mission Learning Program
The concept for this video was a winning submission from the 2015 CLA Case Competition. The video highlights CLA in action through the Conservation Enterprises Cross-Mission…
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10 Lessons in 10 Years: Building the Youth Economic Opportunities Sector
A decade ago, I organized the first-ever global convening with the singular focus on how to increase the scale and sustainability of the youth economic opportunities sector. Fast…
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We Need to Ask the Difficult Questions About Collaboration and Collective Impact
MERL Tech Collective Impact Visual Notes from USAIDLearningLabNo single organization can solve the challenges that the international development sector addresses. Collectively, we…
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Market Systems Insights for DRG - Success as a Dynamic System
This is the second blog post on what Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) can learn from market systems. The first post looked at the practice of market segmentation. I…
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Three Ways Data Science is Changing Monitoring and Evaluation
Three Ways Data Science is Changing Monitoring and EvaluationAs a Data Scientist working in the context of monitoring and evaluation in the international development industry, I get…
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Theory of Change Review as an Adaptive Management Tool
This blog was written by Nancy Peek, M&E Fellow, USAID/KEA/FFP and Laurie Starr, Strategic Learning Advisor, Save the ChildrenIntroductionAdaptive management is a key principle…
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CLA and Enterprise Risk Management: How USAID Takes Risks in an Uncertain World
USAID operates in a world of complexity and uncertainty. Every day, the Agency is called upon to manage risk: as we plan strategies and design projects, as we implement activities…