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.
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.
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.
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
Like many of you, in March 2020 with the onset of the COVID19 pandemic it became clear that business as normal was not going to continue. For my team...
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
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
We are experiencing something that none of us expected. The context has shifted under our feet. The world has changed significantly. And yet, our deve...
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...
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...