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The Birth of the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Maturity Tool
This summary of the CLA Maturity Tool was originally submitted as a case to the 2016 CLA Case Competition. It’s been repurposed here as a blog and includes some updates to reflect…
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USAID Civil Society + Pro Bono Activity: A Case Study in Locally Led Development
Between August 2020 and December 2023, USAID/Mexico funded the Civil Society + Pro Bono (CSPro) Activity, implemented by Appleseed Mexico. The activity’s main objective was to…
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USAID COVID-19 Inequalities and Unintended Outcomes Assessment Report
This assessment identifies inequalities and unintended outcomes—both positive and negative—of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programming that was supported by…
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COVID Big Picture Reflection Lessons Learned Report
The COVID-19 pandemic was a public health emergency with second-order effects that extended beyond the health sector. In 2022, USAID’s Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource…
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Eight Years Later: How our community continues to be inspired by the CLA Maturity Tool
About eight years ago, we introduced the CLA Framework and Maturity Tool on Learning Lab. About four years ago, we shared some observations about how the development community has…
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Look No Further: New Guide and Toolkit are One-Stop Shop for Activity-level Pause and Reflect Processes
Pause and reflect processes are a key component of adaptive management, which USAID’s Biodiversity Division and Missions have embraced in their efforts to improve conservation…
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CLA Framework, Maturity Tool and Spectrum Handouts
The CLA Maturity Tool helps USAID Missions think more deliberately about how to plan for and implement CLA approaches that fit the Mission’s context and needs. It offers examples of…
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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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How we Leverage Learning to Refine our Approach: Walking the CLA Talk Blog Part 5 of 6
As regular readers of this blog series know, in January I started a monthly process of reflecting on the application of the six…
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Reflections on Bite-Sized Learning: Alphabet Soup for the Soul: CLA and DEIA
Administrator Samantha Power referred to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility as, “the lens through which we do development.” When we embed the principles of DEIA across…