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2 | Narayan Adhikari | Country Representative | Accountability Lab | Develop quarterly action plan | Adaptive Management | Individual | ||||||
3 | Bilash Mitra | Team Leader-MEL | ACDI/VOCA | Set up real time field learning collection, introduce pause and reflect for adaptive management | Technical Evidence Base, Pause & Reflect | Team | ||||||
4 | Chris Blackwood | USAID/PPL Learning Fellow | AFR/SD/ED | Meet with the POC of the Education Evaluation Synthesis Report and discuss how its findings could influence future team activities. | Technical Evidence Base | Team | ||||||
5 | Collins Muhumuza | Marketing and Business Development Officer | Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD) | Improve access to clean drinking water in Mbarara and Kiruhura | NA | Individual | ||||||
6 | Salome Tsereteli-Stephens | Deputy Director Research, Evaluation, and Learning Office | American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative | We are in the process of creating a centralized, organization-wide data management and analysis system and defining organizational processes for data collection and storage. As part of this, monitoring and evaluation staff are focusing on improving our skills in data visualization. During the CLA Challenge Week, we will kick off a series of "donuts and data" morning mini-workshops for M&E and program staff to share skills and resources on data visualization. | Knowledge Management | Team | ||||||
7 | Alex Barrett | Monitoring and Evaluation Lead | Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre/SERVIR-Mekong | Schedule 10 minutes to pause and reflect on what I’ve learned at the end of every day. I will record my reflections and share relevant lessons with my team. | Pause & Reflect | Individual | ||||||
8 | Sherry Khan | Director, Economic Growth | Cardno International Development | USAID's AVANSA Agrikultura Project has created a Whatsapp group to allow field staff to quickly communicate information about farmers’ problems (including pests and disease), as well as to find buyers for surplus products. Field staff will spend the “sprint” week testing the Whatsapp group and providing feedback on it usage, the types of information it is best used for, and potential improvements to the system. | Continuous Learning & Improvement | Team | ||||||
10 | Joe Lowther | President | Cardno International Development US | Developing a paper to capture the methodology for incorporating thinking and working politically in CLA. | Knowledge Management | Team | ||||||
11 | Afrhill Rances | Knowledge Management and Learning Advisor | CARE Bangladesh - SHOUHARDO III | Volunteer-related pilot study | NA | Team | ||||||
12 | Vidhya Sriram | Senior Technical Advisor for Research | CARE USA | Map the local, regional and international research partners that CARE works with in food and nutrition security. | External Collaboration | Individual | ||||||
13 | Guy Sharrock | Senior Advisor for Learning | Catholic Relief Services | Outline a 10-part series of 20-minute 'Coffee Break Conversations' webinars | Countinuous Learning & Improvement | Individual | ||||||
14 | Guy Sharrock and Greg Makabila | Senior Advisor for Learning and Regional Technical Advisor for Accountability & Learning | Catholic Relief Services | Create and initial draft facilitation guide for a CLA sandwich training course | CLA Capacity Building | Team | ||||||
15 | Rebecca Askin | Collaboration and Learning Manager | Counterpart International | Program Quality and Learning (PQL) team at Counterpart will facilitate Pause-and-Reflect dialogues about a new USAID Quarterly Report Template we tested with three (3) programs. We want to roll this out in partnership with HQ-Program team, but first need to learn if, and to what degree, program staff feel the structure improves flow (and resonates with program-level Theory of Change), captures impact stories, and highlights progress and problems & solutions in implementation. | Pause & Reflect, Continuous Learning & Improvement | Team | ||||||
16 | Phong Nguyen | MEAL manager | CRS Vietnam | I will set aside 30 minutes by the end of each day from 22-26 Jan 2018 to reflect on how data utilization is applied by myself or my colleagues who I work with within different programs. | Pause & Reflect | Individual | ||||||
17 | Lorine Ghabranious | Senior Consultant | Deloitte | Give a brown bag presentation on CLA and how we can use CLA principles to support our work. I am also hoping to draw out examples of where folks have seen it being used/ want to use CLA in the future and come up with a CLA board within the office. | CLA Capacity Building | Individual | ||||||
18 | Amun Nadeem | M&E Specialist | Dexis Consulting Group | Schedule 10 minutes to pause and reflect on my work at the end of every day, record reflections and share relevant lessons with my team. | Pause & Reflect | Team | 44 | Team | ||||
19 | Carrie Hasselback | Deputy Director, MEL Division | Dexis Consulting Group | I will take time at the end of each day to intentionally pause and reflect on what I learned that day and either document it or share it with relevant team members. | Pause & Reflect | Individual | 26 | Individuals | ||||
20 | Mark McEuen | Chief Operating Officer | Dexis Consulting Group | Reviewing strategies to collaborate on policy roll-out beyond meetings, and pausing and reflecting on what I learned every day | Pause & Reflect, Internal Collaboration | Individual | ||||||
21 | MESCLA | Project Managing Unit | Dexis Consulting Group | Collaboratively evaluate our current project management processes and tools and come up with something more simple, efficient and engaging (as needed). Share the results of our thoughts at the end of the week | Continuous Learning & Improvement | Team | ||||||
22 | Natasha Hsi | Division Director, MEL | Dexis Consulting Group | I will share with my team what I learn from my daily podcast listening, and how I am applying new practices to my work. I will be spreading my insights and love of podcasting through daily updates on our sharepoint site. | Knowledge Management | Individual | ||||||
23 | Stephanie Monschein | MEL Technical Advisor | Dexis Consulting Group | Take time daily to pause and reflect on what I learned, what I can improve, and what I can change. Take time daily for intentional learning in the MEL and USAID field: explore new literature, read LearningLab blog entries and new reports, explore DEC/other donors for new evaluations etc | Pause & Reflect | Individual | ||||||
24 | Mudassir Shah | Monitoring, Evaluating and Research Specialist | E&SED KP Pakistan | During this week I will visit local religious seminaries and help the young students to learn English Language. I will also help them in learning and using modern technology and its impact on our social lives. | NA | Individual | ||||||
25 | Thomas Archibald | Project Director | Feed the Future Senegal Youth in Agriculture | Use the CLA Toolkit, especially the 'Planning for CLA' section, to meaningfully and significantly embed CLA into our new project's Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan (AMELP). | M&E for Learning | Team | ||||||
26 | Hamisi Mwango | Director of CLA | Feed the Future Tanzania NAFAKA | Create opportunities to our field teams to use a Collaboration, Learning and Adapting (CLA) approach in exploring how effect our awareness campaigns are working on changing behavior of our beneficiaries, specifically women and youth, towards the consumption of maize fortified flour as a source of nutrients. | CLA Capacity Building | Team | ||||||
27 | Fernanda Mello | Communications & Reporting Specialist | Global Communities Brasil | Create an opportunity for staff to share feedback on technical and management issues. | Openness | Team | ||||||
28 | M&E Team | M&E Team | Global Communities Ghana/USAID WASH for Health Project | Take 30 minutes a day to discuss with technical teams to reflect on lessons learnt from CLTS implementation and provision of water to communities and examine steps to adapt our activities to improve performance. | Technical Evidence Base | Team | ||||||
29 | Victor Ladele | CEO | Health Innovation Lab 5 | Map my local system and local actors. Determine whether I am missing a key contributor who could have a positive impact on my work to design and develop an organic health information exchange | External Collaboration | Team | ||||||
30 | Janet M. Kamara | Learning Communications Manager | iCampus | Between 22nd to 26th January, I will work towards expanding the membership of our unique learning community from 40 users to 100 users and share one relevant learning content with the entire community. | Relationships & Networks | Individual | ||||||
31 | Katie | Grant | InterAction | For my resolution, I will be reflecting on the year’s Results-Based Protection Community of Practice Discussions and undertaking a review of meeting agendas and minutes to map themes and questions which emerged over the course of 2017. This analysis will feed into design of a survey to be sent to members to inform 2018 learning priorities and CoP methods, and discuss the findings, the exercise, and CLA “habits” that CoP members may be using in our upcoming discussion. | Continuous Learning & Improvement | Individual | ||||||
32 | Caisalius Rugemalira | Project Coordinator | Karagwe District Cooperative Union (KDCU) | Improving quality of coffee by providing price incentives to farmers. | Adaptive Management | Team | ||||||
33 | Hem Raj Bhatta | District Coordinator | Mercy Corps Nepal | I want to share with colleagues how dairy farmers from rural village feel "Empowered with cash earning" and wish to get suggestions and ideas to document all these actions - finally framing on to success story ! | Knowledge Management | Team | ||||||
34 | Ann Hendrix-Jenkins | Global Director, Capacity Development | Pact | We are going to gather input and ideas from lots of folks, internally and externally, and create an idea map of a global capacity development learning agenda. If anyone wants to participate, get in touch! | Technical Evidence Base, Knowledge Management | Team | ||||||
35 | Sarah Ellison | Field Program Support Officer | Pact (Malawi Office) | This week @PactWorld #Malawi is having our annual planning retreat where we'll be flexing our #CLA muscles especially focusing on #adapting & having a #Culture of that promotes CLA & #Feedback. | Openness, Adaptive Management | Team | ||||||
36 | Martin Namasaka | Regional Communications Coordinator | PACT Inc - Kenya | Pact Kenya Office (MERL and Communications teams) will develop and manage the Pact monthly electronic learning and information sharing. The monthly e-newsletter will incorperate the CLA framework and key concepts to effectively disseminate learning, encourage collaboration, facilitate adoption, promote Pact culture and encourage effective processes to internal and external audiences. In the end, both program's and organizational goals would be effectively achieved. | Knowledge Management | Team | ||||||
37 | Brian Vo | Vice President, Social Investment and Alternative Finance | Pact Ventures, Pact | We want to explore potential opportunities for a cross-sector partnership that would provide self-sustainability for a Pact intervention that is currently funded by USAID | Relationships & Networks | Team | ||||||
38 | Faith Lannap | Government System Strengthening Technical Advisor | Pact West Africa / 4Children Project | I will take 30 minutes every day for the period of 5 working days (22nd – 26th January 2018) to research and learn more on my technical work and then share the key learning and resources with my team. | Technical Evidence Base | Individual | ||||||
39 | Sandra Bunch | Director, Knowledge Management and Communications | Panagora Group | Pause and Reflect on Flex Time -- No one has time for another meeting, so we're posting Red (stop) Yellow (change) Green (keep going) idea sheets on office walls so people can add their thought on what was learned/how to improve recent work. We'll collect these ideas and discuss/plan actions steps in a few weeks when we have a break in schedules. | Pause & Reflect | Team | ||||||
40 | Sher Bahadur Rana | Health Coordinator | Plan International Nepal Girls & Boys Start Equally (Early Childhood Development) | I will discuss with collaborative colleagues in CLA on how can I apply this practice in emerged challenges in Early Childhood Development since pregnancy period. | Internal Collaboration | Individual | ||||||
41 | Stacey Massuda & Reena Nadler | Program Assistant and KM and Organizational Learning Specialist | PPL/LER | The LER office is committed to creating more effective, efficient, and valuable meetings by piloting updated guidance on meeting purpose/timing/participants/agendas/facilitation/follow up. The initial phase of this pilot begins next week, a perfect time to join the CLA sprint. There was a baseline survey of the office and their perceptions of current meeting practices. It will be followed up by a survey in 3 months. However, the changes in morale and productivity should be immediate. | Continuous Learning & Improvement | Team | ||||||
42 | Matthew St. John | Senior MEL Manager | RTI International | The IDG Governance and Economic Development division from RTI International will facilitate project staff in El Salvador to hold a half-day session outside of the office during the CLA week to pause and reflect on findings from a recent evaluation and incorporate recommendations by developing actions plans for adapting project activities going forward. | Pause & Reflect | Team | ||||||
43 | Melissa Bevins | Event and Networking Specialist | RTI International | I will take time at the end of each work day to pause and reflect on what I learned that day. | Pause & Reflect | Individual | ||||||
44 | Elizabeth Regan | Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA) Specialist | RTI International | RTI’s StopPalu+ project team in Guinea will plan to implement Pause and Reflect sessions at the end of each day of their project start-up workshop. We will discuss what we learned during the day and how we can apply those learnings to achieve project objectives. | Pause & Reflect | Team | ||||||
45 | Molly Chen | Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adaptiing (MERLA) Specialist | RTI International | The RTI International’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA) Community of Practice started at the beginning of FY2018 and now has 12 core members and 40 general members representing all technical divisions including global health, international education, governance and economic development, food security and agriculture, and learning, energy, environment for development (LEED). During the CLA Challenge Week, the MERLA Community of Practice members will meet and share how we are implementing CLA in our projects and divisions to contribute to our mission to create a culture of learning. In addition, we will share any tools that facilitate our CLA processes so we can utilize and share existing resources. | CLA Capacity Building, Relationships & Networks | Team | ||||||
46 | Cornelia Tremann | Knowledge Management and Learning Specialist | Sahel Regional Office | Take 5 minutes at the end of every day during this week to pause and reflect about something new that you've learned that is useful in your work - whether it is about your work style, a new skill you've acquired, or a technical piece of information you've learned that will help in the design of a new project, We'll convene the following week so that everyone can share the most important thing they learned that week. | Pause & Reflect | Team | ||||||
47 | Miquel Bono | Program Officer - "Innovation in Districts" | Sant Feliu de Llobregat City Council (Barcelona Metropolitan Area) | I am currently designing an active labor policies monitoring and evaluation framework at the municipality level. I’ll be reviewing some M&E essentials (learning) and exchanging ideas with new colleagues (culture) to adapt the M&E framework I am designing as good as I can (adapting). | M&E for Learning, Openness, Adaptive Management | Individual | ||||||
48 | Marnie Valdivia | Geospatial Technologies Specialist | Tetra Tech | On Monday we will pause and reflect on our FY18 Work Plan, which we do on a quarterly basis. We will discuss what works and what doesn't, identify opportunities to adapt the work plan, and integrate lessons learned into the work plan moving forward. | Pause & Reflect | Team | ||||||
49 | Marnie Valdivia | Geospatial Technologies Specialist | Tetra Tech | Develop a methodology for assessing digital development solutions from conception to implementation; integrating a social network analysis, a theory of change, plan for feedback loops, SOPs for assessments, etc. | Knowledge Management | Team | ||||||
50 | Sophie Javers | Engagement and Outreach | The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access | Our team will draft a Stakeholder Engagement Plan for 2018 with CLA practices at the core of the process and of the plan itself. | External Collaboration | Team | ||||||
51 | Charlotta Sandin | Deputy Chief of Party | The Learning Contract | to ensure that our team that is planning and preparing for the field-based portfolio reviews integrate and practice the theory of Peter Senge's Mental models into the planning. The aim is to make sure that the all-Mission portfolio reviews in the field are set up to allow the participants to shape new "deeply held internal images of how the world works" that fit the new integrated strategy. | Continuous Learning & Improvement | Team | ||||||
52 | Laura O'Brien | Innovation Program Manager | The QED Group, LLC | Collaboration and Learning through gathering user feedback for a web-based self-diagnostic prototype for Organizational Development. | Continuous Learning & Improvement | Team | ||||||
53 | Cory Ragsdale | ECO Project Associate | Training Resources Group, Inc. | Each staff member who is participating will spend 10-15 minutes each day researching one new thing in an area related to their work and record what they learned and how they might apply it (or not) in their work and how others at TRG might apply/use it. After the challenge, we will organize a lunch session to gather and share our experiences and talk about the resources we found. | Technical Evidence Base | Team | ||||||
54 | Erica Spell | Program Manager | Transformation Task Team (T3) | Incorporating CLA principles and practices into the USAID Redesign efforts specifically for the Culture of Accountability and Learning project | CLA Capacity Building | Team | ||||||
55 | ERSHAD AHMED NOMANI | UFPO | Upazila Family Planning Office,KuliarcharDG-FP ,MOHFW ,GoB. | Safe delivery to reduce maternal mortility | NA | Team | ||||||
56 | Jessica Mirabella | Program/MEL Manager | USAID BRIDGE Project/DAI | We will hold a dedicated learning meeting with our project's USAID management team on Jan 25th. The meeting is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the project's learning around our assumptions. Specifically we will share and agree upon some updates to our processes and tools to capture learning throughout the year, and we will have a deeper discussion around one of the project's main learning questions. | Pause & Reflect, Continuous Learning & Improvement | Team | ||||||
57 | Andrew Greer | Program Specialist - Learning, Monitoring, and Evaluation | USAID Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance | I will work with USAID/Tanzania to incorporate CLA practices into their project-level MEL plan. After my TDY ends, I will share this with my colleagues in DC. | M&E for Learning | Individual | ||||||
58 | Corinne Rothblum | Democracy Officer | USAID Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance | I will ask participants at the PEA and Closing Space trainings to describe a CLA practice at their Mission and share these back with my colleagues in Washington. | CLA Capacity Building | Individual | ||||||
59 | Amy Leo | Communications Specialist | USAID LEARN Contract, Dexis Consulting Group | I will devote 30 minutes per day to learn about new technology and best practices in my technical work, and share what I've learned with my teammates. | Technical Evidence Base | Individual | ||||||
60 | Capacity Building Sprinters Club | Capacity Building Workstream | USAID LEARN Contract, Dexis Consulting Group | We will employ pause and reflect opportunities at the end of each dry run for CLA training that we have scheduled during the week with a 3 question survey tool. | Pause & Reflect | Team | ||||||
61 | Cydney Gumann | ProgramNet Program Manager | USAID LEARN Contract, Dexis Consulting Group | Supporting individual and group learning to inform ProgramNet’s site redesign process. Each day will be centered on a learning objective with time set aside for individual research and then group sharing and discussion. | Countinuous Learning & Improvement | Team | ||||||
62 | Laura Ahearn | Senior MERL Specialist | USAID LEARN Contract, Dexis Consulting Group | I will have at least one conversation each day with a colleague I do not work with regularly. I'll share with my MERL team members what I learn about what these colleagues are working on. | Openness | Individual | ||||||
63 | Lucille Jan | Sr. Project Associate | USAID LEARN Contract, Dexis Consulting Group | Schedule 10 minutes to pause and reflect on my work at the end of every day, record reflections and share relevant lessons with my team. | Pause & Reflect | Individual | ||||||
64 | Monalisa Salib | Organizational Development and Learning Advisor | USAID LEARN Contract, Dexis Consulting Group | I will take the last 10 minutes of each day to reflect on: what I did well, what I could have done better, and what I will apply moving forward | Pause & Reflect | Individual | ||||||
65 | Agnes Watsemba | Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Specialist | USAID Uganda HIV/Health Initiatives in Workplaces Activity (HIWA) | Start documenting programmatic adaptations through a change log, capturing evidence for changes made and their impact. Share this tool with your team. | Knowledge Management | Team | ||||||
66 | David Ratliff | Mission Staff | USAID/Azerbaijan | Currently 11 staff will work on 18 different experiments during the week - Program Officer (David Ratliff) will host a reflection session and document outcomes | Pause & Reflect, Knowledge Management | Team | ||||||
67 | Adriana Harvey | Program Officer | USAID/Ethiopia | To encourage USAID staff to take 30 min over the next week to review the consolidated evidence base we recently compiled and read one document from a sector other than their own in order to encourage open thinking as we go into a series of workshop on developing interim strategic guidance for the mission. | Technical Evidence Base | Individual | ||||||
68 | Tanya A. Garnett | CLA/KM Advisor | USAID/Liberia and Liberia Strategic Analysis, implemented by Social Impact | In December 2017, Liberia elected its new president and is on course for its first peaceful transfer of power since the end of the civil war. New government leadership will have significant implications for USAID/Liberia and the Mission has begun preparing for this transition with Mission Teams planning various transition activities to build relationships with the incoming government. LSA is collaborating with the Mission and consolidating efforts into a strategic action plan for the transition. DO Teams, the front office and LSA are coordinating activities and meetings under one strategic workplan outlining the path towards clear and effective coordination with the incoming government. Over the next week, USAID/Liberia and LSA will track use of the strategic workplan and will participate in a series of coordination meetings. Lessons learned from this strategic approach to government transitions will be important for improving agency and government collaboration and strategic planning in the future. | Scenario Planning | Team | ||||||
69 | Chelsea Kaufman | Program Officer | USAID/PPL/LER/CLA | As a team, we will pause and reflect on our work styles and work through a facilitated conversation on how to leverage our strengths to improve collaboration, overall work productivity, and positively affect our team culture. We will be using insights for this pause and reflect session. As an output, we will update our team charter as necessary. | Pause & Reflect | Team | ||||||
70 | Folorunso Akintunde | Provisional Director | Vasal Technologies Ltd | Get in touch with local farmers on the use of New plant tonic developed to boost crops and fodder production. | Relationships & Networks | Team | ||||||
71 | Sunil Kumar Regmi | MEL Director, KISAN II Project | Winrock International | Update action plans for CLA practices that will lead to desired outcomes | CLA Capacity Building | Team | ||||||
72 | April Thompson | Knowledge Management Portfolio Manager | KDAD project | Convening other KM mechanisms in the 'Links family to share lessons learned around marketing and audience engagement (I know we are late, but better late than never!) | Team | |||||||
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