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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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    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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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
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
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
Listen Carefully, Tread Lightly, Adapt Quickly: CA...
My first job in development was as an “Institutional Memory Specialist” (a fancy title to avoid calling me “intern in charge of finding pape...
Mar 10, 2020 by Emily Janoch
Where to Go for Research Evidence
Are you looking for research evidence to inform your development programming? You’re in luck. The Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC), a free...
Nov 13, 2019 by Lily Sweikert
CLA Through Theater: Engaging Ukraine’s Civil So...
This blog was written by Christopher Russell (Strategy Policy Analyst, Pact Ukraine) and Lauren Serpe (Deputy Technical Director, Global Results and M...
Sep 4, 2019 by Christopher Russell and Lauren Serpe
Three Ways Data Science is Changing Monitoring and...
Three Ways Data Science is Changing Monitoring and Evaluation As a Data Scientist working in the context of monitoring and evaluation in the internati...
May 20, 2019 by John Mataya
Biodiversity Integration Case Study Competition
USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3) Office of Forestry and Biodiversity is now accepting submissions for a case study...
Apr 17, 2019 by E3 Office of Forestry and Biodiversity
Four Takeaways from USAID's First Evaluation Summi...
This post was written by Frank Higdon, Evaluation Team Lead, Office of Learning Evaluation and Research, Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning As U...
Oct 26, 2018 by Frank Higdon
Advancing Work with the Grain at USAID
In December 2017, I wrote a blog about some of the insights gained during a workshop on Context-Driven Adaptation, where many of our sharpest field of...
Oct 18, 2018 by David Jacobstein
Ways to Integrate a CLA Approach in the Performanc...
Motasim Billah is a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at USAID/Bangladesh. Since the revision of ADS 201 that mandated us to include Collaborating,...
May 18, 2018 by Motasim Billah
What is Adaptive Management?
Curious about how USAID defines and thinks about adaptive management? Well, USAID recently released a Discussion Note which complements ADS 201.3.1.2 ...
Feb 8, 2018 by Learning Lab

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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