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LEARN Activity Level MERL Plan
achieving significant development outcomes.
USAID LEARN is a five-year contract funded by USAID’s Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) through its Office of Learning,…
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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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A Management Compact for Advancing Adaptive Management
The Sprint Relay is a methodology that makes adaptive implementation practical. As part of a Sprint Relay, several agencies collaborate over a 100-day period (a Sprint) to produce a…
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Assumptions, Conjectures, and Other Miracles: The Application of Evaluative Thinking to Theory of Change Models in Community Development
Unexamined and unjustified assumptions are the Achilles heel of development programs. In this paper, we describe an evaluation capacity building (ECB) approach designed to help…
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Walking the Talk: An Iterative Approach to Developing the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Maturity Matrix
USAID established Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) as a practice area in 2009 to improve organizational effectiveness and development results. The USAID Bureau for Policy…
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MERLIN: US Global Development Lab Evaluation and Impact Assessment
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Innovations activity, known as MERLIN, is an effort to source, co-create, and co-design innovations in monitoring, evaluation,…
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Better Bureaus for Business Partnerships: Collaborating Across USAID to Improve the Development Impact of Private Sector Partnerships
The U.S. Global Development Lab’s Center for Transformational Partnerships (CTP) built a private sector engagement (PSE) community of practice that is a resource for USAID staff…
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What’s New? High-Frequency Mobile Communication Drives Resilience Learning in Somalia
The Somalia Towards Reaching Resilience (STORRE) activity uses CARE’s Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, Reflection, and Learning (PMERL) process to help communities evaluate…
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Training
USAID/Uganda’s Learning Contract, launched in 2013, is charged with assisting the mission to refine, scale up, and institutionalize collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA)…
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Integrating Stakeholder Engagement into the Design Process: Liberia Strategic Analysis Communities of Practice
The Ebola crisis in Liberia clarified the importance of coordination, community engagement, and mobilization for emergency response and for development. Liberia Strategic Analysis …