USAID Learning Lab

Mark your calendars! The 2024 #CLACaseComp–a celebration of a decade-long effort to advance CLA approaches for better development outcomes–opens June 17! Learn more on #USAIDLearningLab: https://bit.ly/CLA_24   To learn how you can submit a case, and what makes for a strong submission, join one of the launch webinars on June 17 or June 20 💡 The Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Case Competition is about capturing real-world examples of how USAID staff and partners use #CLA to tackle the world’s most pressing #development challenges. By participating in the 2024 Competition, you are helping USAID expand the evidence base for the use of CLA in development programming. 

The 2024 #CLACaseCompetition is now closed—thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re inspired by the amazing stories we received in celebration of the competition’s milestone 10th anniversary💡 All eligible cases will be featured on #USAIDLearningLab and will help us build the evidence-base for #CLA. Stay tuned for our announcement of the winners this fall.

Today is the last day to submit a case to the 2024 #CLACaseCompetition! The deadline closes at 5:00 p.m. ET today, July 26. Don’t miss this chance to participate in our 10th annual competition—and to help us learn about what works and what does not when implementing #CLA in development. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eMgtcMcp

How do you measure success? For our July Summer Reading List, we’re revisiting this blog from the Interaction Institute for Social Change on the complexities of this all-important question in #collaboration. The Institute’s R-P-R Triangle model names three dimensions of success: Results, Process, and Relationship. Each dimension is linked and dependent on each other—with a complicated balance. https://lnkd.in/guNANFfh What do you think? Let us know in the comments. ⤵️

There are only three days left to submit a case to #USAIDCLACaseComp! For the past decade, the USAID Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Case Competition has helped us build an evidence-base of real-world examples of #CLA in action. We want to hear from you: what’s working well, what are you struggling with, and what have you learned along the way? Submit your case by 5 p.m. ET on July 26! https://lnkd.in/eMgtcMcp

What blogs, articles, and videos are on your Summer Reading List? This July, we’re sharing our favorite resources through our #USAIDLearningLab monthly theme 📖📝🎥 This #TEDxTalk from Duncan Wardle discusses creativity as a core human element that we can all tap into. He shares common issues that can block creativity and how we can overcome them: https://lnkd.in/dcR9i5gg Where are you most creative? Share in the comments! ⤵️

#USAID’s fourth #BiteSizedLearning Session, “CLA Saves the Day: Successful Activity Redesigns and Pivots”, took place earlier this month. An overview of the session is now available on #USAIDLearningLab: https://lnkd.in/eftKrbs6 The Bite-Sized Learning series aims to surface lessons learned from the #CLACaseComp evidence base of more than 600 CLA cases, and to share these lessons with development professionals within and beyond the Agency. Let us know what you think of this session in the comments, and keep an eye out for more Bite-Sized Learning in the future! #MEL

🚨 The deadline to submit a case to the #USAIDCLACaseComp is just one week away: July 26 🚨 Help us expand the evidence-base for using #CLA in development programming! The past decade of case submissions have been important to informing USAID's and partners' ongoing work in applying #CLA approaches for organizational learning and improved results—like this winning submission from 2021 that made a splash! To strengthen the Philippines’ response to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, the @USAID Fish Right Program leveraged analysis and reflection to bring together government agencies, local fishing communities, CSOs, and academic institutions to build consensus and strengthen partnerships. Learn more about their story on #USAIDLearningLab: https://lnkd.in/eckxBMvW

One of the goals of #CLA is to make data-driven decisions to improve program performance. To hold more effective trainings for farmers and small businesses, USAID Laos Microenterprise used QR codes and cell phones to collect, analyze, and apply data to tailor training sessions to local needs. Ultimately, the project developed tools that participants liked and understood—resulting in 97 percent of farmers adopting at least one new business skill. Check out their story on #USAIDLearningLab: https://lnkd.in/eGRU6xGp ACDI/VOCA

#knowledgemanagement friends, what other resources would you share for USAID Learning Lab Lab's summer reading month? April Houston, MSW, MPH , Katie Pons, Fiona Cooper, Miriam Selva, Swasti Gautam, what's on your list?