Learning and Adaptation

Design Considerations: Adapting the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Maturity Self-assessment and Action Planning Process

Design Considerations: Adapting the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Maturity Self-assessment and Action Planning Process

Designed by: Amy Leo Teams have many options for adapting the CLA Maturity Self-assessment and Action Planning Process to their specific needs. This document lists design choices to think through when customizing your CLA Maturity Self-assessment and Action Planning approach. View Design Considerations for Adapting the CLA Maturity Self-Assessment and Action Planning Process

Adaptive Action Planning Workshop Facilitator’s Guide

Conducting an Adaptive Action Planning Workshop is a powerful approach to improving intentionality toward Adaptive Management. This guide shares with facilitators of such workshops key considerations and steps to lead effective workshops that identify additional support and adaptations needed for implementers. These steps are categorized into three phases: pre-workshop, during the workshop, and post-workshop. In

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Outcome Harvesting Methods Memo

The Outcome Harvesting Methods Memo is the first in a series of products intended to provide guidance for professionals of all levels to implement stronger CLAME practices. Headlight’s free Methods Memos offer detailed how-to guidance, making best practices more accessible so that we can all uphold and contextualize the standards that lead to rigorous evidence

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Partnering With Global Alliances: USAID’s Contributions To Ecosystem Outcomes

The Digital Financial Services (DFS) team at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) conducts an annual effort to identify models or examples of success that demonstrate the achievement of the team’s objectives and lessons learned for replication and scale. In 2021, Headlight worked with the DFS team to examine and substantiate outcomes achieved

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The Mission Engagement Playbook

Many Headquarters (HQ) Operating Units at the Agency depend on successful engagement and productive working relationships with Missions. The objective of these partnerships is often to achieve sustained uptake with a given Mission. Sustained uptake is the transference of full ownership and valuation of an innovation, approach, or technical expertise to a Mission, such that

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Implementing Developmental Evaluation for Evaluators and Administrators Guide

Commissioned by USAID and published in 2019, the Implementing Developmental Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Evaluators and Administrators serves as a How-To reference for those trying to navigate the dynamics and complexities of implementing Developmental Evaluations (DEs). Co-written by Headlight’s CEO Rebecca Herrington along with staff at Search For Common Ground; Social Impact, Inc.; The

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The Support for Market Growth with USAID/Ethiopia Bright Spots Case Study

The Digital Finance team has initiated an annual effort to identify models or examples of digital finance support at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that demonstrate development outcomes catalyzed by digital finance, improved service delivery, and lessons learned for replication and scale. In partnership with USAID’s Digital Finance (DFS) Team, Headlight co-implemented

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The Digital Payments in Liberia Bright Spots Case Study

The Digital Finance team has initiated an annual effort to identify models or examples of digital finance support at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that demonstrate development outcomes catalyzed by digital finance, improved service delivery, and lessons learned for replication and scale. In partnership with USAID’s Digital Finance (DFS) Team, Headlight co-implemented

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Progress Markers Guide

The Progress Markers Facilitation Guide provides instructions and helpful tips on conducting an exercise to identify progress markers for any program or activity where the results occur in the medium to long-term, but where there is a need to track and report on efforts in the short-term. A progress marker is any smaller anticipated action

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Pause & Reflect Workshop Guide

Pause & Reflect Workshops are a tried and true approach to support learning, adaptive management, and strategic planning. In USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Framework, Pause & Reflect falls as a sub-component under the Adapting sphere with the goal of getting a team to step back and reflect on what they have learned as

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