COP Hot Seat: Working with Leadership to Promote Learning and Adaptation
Two of the most commonly cited barriers to adaptive management approaches are time and resources, but who decides how CLA is resourced? And how can you make the case that investing in CLA is worth the time and effort it requires? This is where leadership’s support of CLA is critical.
Join the Strategic Learning & Adaptive Management (SLAM) peer community for a meeting on August 29, 2024 to hear directly from Chiefs of Party (COP) on how to work with leadership to champion learning and adaptation. The meeting will spotlight COPs who have become champions of learning and adaptive management within their respective activities and allow you to engage with them around the most challenging issues you face. Come ready with questions for our panel of COPs, we look forward to a lively discussion. Whether you are a COP interested in creating an enabling environment for CLA across your consortium or you are an activity staff memeber advocating for adaptive management approaches to your COP, this conversation will focus on the critical role that leadership plays in laying the groundwork for activities to learn and adapt.
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Presenters
Rita Larok, Chief of Party, Graduating to Resilience, AVSI Uganda
Rita Larok is the AVSI Foundation global thematic focal person for Graduation Approach/Economic Inclusion as well as the Chief of Party for the Graduating to Resilience activity in Kamwenge, Uganda. She has 17 years of experience in development and humanitarian settings and is a member of the Advisory Group for the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI). She is currently pursuing a doctorate in psychology.
Sagar Pokharel, former Chief of Party, Apolou, Mercy Corps Uganda
Sagar Pokharel previously served as the Chief of Party for Apolou, a USAID BHA-funded resilience food security activity in the Karamoja region of Uganda. He worked with Mercy Corps for over 15 years in East Africa and South Asia coordinating programs that enhanced food and nutrition security of households through market systems development approaches and resilience framework.