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I’m [Not] Drinking the CLA Kool-Aid: A New Program Officer’s Perspective on CLA
As a new Foreign Service Officer (FSO) with USAID, there are a variety of on-the-job rotations with different offices, trainings, and other learning opportunities that will help me…
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“Walking the Talk” of Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting: a Reflection in Six Parts
This blog post is part of a USAID Learning Lab series called Working Smarter: Everyday CLA techniques to help you be more productive. The…
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The Importance of Champions: A Change Management Manifesto
This may sound painfully obvious, and yet, I feel it warrants articulating—it is the individuals who make up our institutions that either maintain the status quo or create change…
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We Challenge YOU to a CLA Sprint!
In 2018, we’re taking our Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Resolutions to the next level by inviting the USAID Learning Lab…
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Our 2017 CLA Resolutions
The USAID LEARN team was inspired by Feedback Labs to document and share our 2017 Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) resolutions! What’s yours? Please add it in the…
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What Does the Literature Say about Collaborating, Learning and Adapting? (Fall 2017 Update)
Did you know that purposeful reflection on one’s accumulated experience leads to greater learning than the accumulation of additional…
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Behind the Wizard’s Curtain: True Stories from a USAID Program Office
Formerly a member of the CLA Team in USAID/PPL/LER, David Ratliff is now Program Officer in the USAID/Azerbaijan mission. He submitted this blog to share the mission's CLA Challenge…
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Women Respond: A Glimpse of Women's First Hand Responses to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the world, with widespread global impact at unprecedented scale. There are more than 5.7 million reported COVID-19 cases world-wide, and it…
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We Got Your Feedback: What Evidence is Most Useful to You?
Kat Haugh is a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Associate on the USAID LEARN contract.
Recipients of the USAID Learning Lab…
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To CLA or not to CLA: That is Actually NOT the Question
Monalisa Salib is a Manager of Organizational Learning & Research on the USAID/LEARN contract.
Image: Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as…