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    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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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
Thinking and Working Politically in the Times of C...
Sarah Swift is a Democracy Officer, Cross Sectoral Programming Division, USAID's Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance “T...
Jul 17, 2020 by Sarah Swift
How do I integrate CLA into my activity? Approache...
I’ve had the privilege to lead the USAID LEARN contract from start to finish. I was employee number one as Deputy and I’ll be the last one to lea...
Jun 24, 2020 by Sarah Schmidt
A Closer Look at the LEARN End of Contract Report:...
In September 2014, USAID’s Office of Learning, Evaluation & Research within the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning awarded the Knowledge M...
Jun 8, 2020 by Sarah Schmidt
USAID/Senegal Governance Activity Demonstrates Val...
This blog is a response to our invitation to reflect on how this community is using CLA approaches to respond to COVID-19. We’d love to hear from ...
May 13, 2020 by Sarah Miller Frazer
How Can I Engage Members of a Community of Practic...
A steady thread throughout my career has been a passion for bringing people together for relationship building and learning. One of the ways I’ve do...
Apr 23, 2020 by Bari Rabin
Two Acronyms, One Goal: Applying PSE and CLA for B...
With USAID’s Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Policy, we are shifting to work hand-in-hand with the private sector to design and deliver our developm...
Apr 17, 2020 by Beverly Hoover and Jacqueline Rojas
Supporting Self-Reliance Through Collaborating, Le...
How can Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) contribute to fostering a country’s Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR)? The latest Self-Reliance Le...
Apr 13, 2020 by Self-Reliance Learning Agenda team
ResilienceLinks: A New Knowledge Platform for Glob...
Resilience – the ability to manage through crisis without compromising future wellbeing – is increasingly recognized as an essential part of globa...
Mar 3, 2020 by Center for Resilience
How To Foster Local Ownership for Improved Develop...
Imagine you’re tasked with designing a program that improves public service delivery to local communities in Uganda. You know that you need to engag...
Jan 24, 2020 by Kristin Lindell
Reflecting on Five Years of the CLA Case Competiti...
This fall, USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning and the LEARN contract announced the winners of our annual CLA case competition. This wa...
Jan 9, 2020 by Monica Matts
How Can CLA Help on the Journey to Self-Reliance? ...
We asked three questions to Juan Sebastián Barco and Katy Gorentz from the USAID Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) program after their cas...
Nov 20, 2019 by Maria Castro

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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