Processes Cluster Slider
Tips for preserving institutional memory as staff come and go.

Managing knowledge can be cumbersome. This toolkit cluster can help.

Top Reads
Library Resource
Managing Staff Transitions Through CLA: Preserving Institutional Memory as Staff Come and Go
02-22-2019 | By USAID Bureau for Policy Planning and Learning
Process Resource
Filter By
Library Resource
USAID Climate Strategy 2022-2030
Apr 26,2022
By: USAID Climatelinks
Climate change is a global crisis. As temperatures and sea levels rise, people around the world are increasingly seeing heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires upend their lives. The effects of climate change are not equal – they disproportionately impact the poorest and most marginalized communities USAID works to support...
Process
blog
Devastating vs Democratizing Data: How a global indicator can engage communities and be locally led
Feb 21,2022
By: Alysson Akiko Oakley
We are moving ever further into the realm of possibility afforded by advanced data analytics and experimental methodologies, such that answers to questions posed by wicked problems* are tantalizingly close. This is revolutionizing the development sector and helping us to realize our ethical obligation to use tools and strategies that are ...
Library Resource
Institutional Capacity Development through an Integrated Needs-Based Practical Approach
Jan 31,2022
By: Mariam Taha
This resource shares how World Learning and the QITABI 2 project created a blended approach to provide partners with a roadmap to ultimate system strengthening using USAID's organizational capacity assessment (OCA) tool, human and institutional capacity development (HICD) framework, and a Feasibility Index. The OCA allowed for q...
Library Resource
Organizational Capacity: An Enhanced Framework
Jan 05,2022
By: devandeignan
This resource provides an overview of current organizational capacity literature and proposes a new enhanced framework that reflects on the evolution of capacity development thinking in recent years. It considers performance, resilience, sustainability, adaptive learning, and systems thinking and homes in on a limited set of key observabl...
Process
Library Resource
How-To Note: Strategy-Level Portfolio Review
Nov 22,2021
By: USAID Bureau for Policy
This updated How-To Note supplements ADS 201.3.2.18. It presents guidelines and recommended practices in planning and implementing a Mission-wide strategy-level portfolio review. These guidelines and practices can also be adapted for Washington-based Operating Unit portfolio reviews as well as project- and activity-level reviews conducted...
Adapting
Program Cycle
Library Resource
Post-Evaluation Action Plans
Nov 19,2021
By: tonyagiannoni
This guidance describes the responsibilities and steps to prepare post-evaluation action plans that respond to evaluation report findings and conclusions, and recommendations (as required). The guidance is primarily for use by USAID staff.
Adapting
Learning
Process
Program Cycle
Library Resource
Discussion Note: Making Evidence Accessible through Evaluation Synthesis
Oct 31,2021
By: tonyagiannoni
Evaluation syntheses are analytic reviews of evaluations that aggregate findings from evaluation reports and/or examine the quality of the evaluations reviewed. This Discussion Note, Making Evidence Accessible through Evaluation Synthesis, focuses on two common types of evaluation syntheses that USAID commissions: meta-evaluati...
Program Cycle
blog
Strengthening Knowledge Retention and Transfer During Staff Transitions
Aug 05,2021
By: Adrián Rivera-Reyes
USAID’s workforce is highly mobile, with Foreign Service staff in particular transitioning fairly frequently from post to post. Yet the Agency lacks a systematic process for capturing and transferring knowledge from outgoing staff to incoming staff. Consequently, during staff transitions, knowledge of our programs and their histories, u...
blog
Piloting CLA Awards in The Philippines
Jul 26,2021
By: Martin Nañawa
Pilot builds on CLA best practicesPanagora Group holds the USAID CLAimHealth contract, which supports the agency to effectively implement its health portfolio in the Philippines through high-quality monitoring and evaluation data, continuous learning, and adaptive management.Following four years of robust activities to raise awareness and...
- 1 of 36
- ››
Processes Component page blocks - small
Explore Another Component
Newsletter Sign-up