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    Program Cycle

    The Program Cycle is USAID’s operational model for planning, implementing, assessing, and adapting development programming in a given region or country. The Program Cycle is how policy gets translated into action and how USAID supports countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance.

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    USAID Learning Lab hosts three toolkits to provide USAID staff and implementing partners with a curated set of resources to plan, implement and integrate monitoring, evaluating and CLA practices into their programs.

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    Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) is a framework and a set of practices for strengthening organizational learning and the conditions that enable it throughout the Program Cycle to improve our development effectiveness, and support countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance.

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    USAID Learning Lab hosts a number of resources and examples that showcase how CLA has been used in practice. 

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Are Agency-Level Global Indicators Enlightening or...
There is an endless tussle between the divergent needs of data users in the international development sector. Program stakeholders need tailored measu...
Feb 24, 2021 by Alysson Akiko Oakley
Remote, Innovative, and Meaningful: Facilitating S...
Read the full, original blog post here.Bringing together diverse stakeholders is never simple, and doing so during a global public health crisis prese...
Jan 25, 2021 by Kamweti Mutu and Katherine Connolly
Rhetoric or Redundant? Making the Most of Adaptive...
Making the Most of Adaptive Management in International Development“Adaptive management” has become one of those pieces of jargon dropped into int...
Jan 25, 2021 by Alysson Akiko Oakley
Women Workers Respond
This story is part of CARE's Women Respond series, which is an initiative to learn from and amplify the direct perspectives, experiences and prioritie...
Jan 12, 2021 by Diana Wu
Let's Get Meta: Learning how to Learn from Evaluat...
Insights from a Meta-Evaluation of USAID/Liberia's Portfolio from 2016-2020As Social Impact’s (SI) five-year Liberia Strategic Analysis (LSA) contra...
Dec 22, 2020 by Carla Trippe
Fail Again. Fail Better
“Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” --Samuel BeckettHere’s my favorite part of that quote: the ultimate goal is not a ...
Nov 17, 2020 by Emily Janoch
That was then, this is now.
A collective look-back at the first 2 years of the Multi-Donor Learning Partnership for Development Impact This blog was cross-posted from the Multi-D...
Nov 4, 2020 by Multi-Donor Learning Partnership for Development Impact
CLA in the Time of COVID-19: Adapting, Pivoting an...
USAID Advancing Nutrition is the agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project. Led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) and a ...
Oct 23, 2020 by Abigail Conrad
Locally Led Development: Engaging Local Stakeholde...
Authors: The Office of Local Sustainability Evidence and Learning Team (Danielle Pearl, Amanda Satterwhite, Colleen Brady, Elliot Signorelli, Cydney ...
Sep 29, 2020 by USAID Office of Local Sustainability
So, you want to start a podcast?
Amy Leo was previously the human behind USAID Learning Lab. Now, she’s a Senior Adaptive Management Specialist with Acute Incite’s International...
Sep 8, 2020 by Amy Leo
CLA Through Data Management Systems: A Tale of Two...
At FHI 360, we have been engaged in thinking about how to make our collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) efforts intentional, systematic, and res...
Sep 4, 2020 by Rafael Pilliard-Hellwig
Three Insights on Activity Monitoring, Evaluation ...
Monalisa Salib is Social Impact's Sr. Director for Organizational Learning, USAID/Learns Under the USAID/Vietnam Learns contract, Social Impact recent...
Aug 26, 2020 by Monalisa Salib

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  • Program CYCLE
    • Strategic Planning
    • Project Design & implementation
    • Activity Design & Implementation
    • Collaborating Learning & Adapting
    • Monitoring
    • Evaluation
  • Toolkits
    • CLA Toolkit
    • Monitoring Toolkit
    • Evaluation Toolkit
  • What is CLA?
    • Collaborating
    • Learning
    • Adapting
    • Culture
    • Processes
    • Resources
  • CLA In Practice
    • Case Competition
    • Case Map
    • CLA Evidence Dashboard
  • Podcasts and Videos
  • Blog