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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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    About CLA

    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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A New Normal: Adapting our Approach to MERLA durin...
If you’d asked what we thought would be a “worst case scenario” for our work in monitoring, evaluation, research, learning & adapting (MERLA...
Aug 12, 2020 by Molly Chen and Amal Mohammad
What are the ethical implications of using Third-P...
What do you do when you are an A/COR and unable to visit your activity’s sites because they are located in insecure areas or because your mission ha...
Aug 11, 2020 by Sonja Schmidt
Adapting to New COVID-19 Realities: Emerging Lesso...
Trust in public institutions is one of the most essential factors for effective public health crisis management and response. Activities designed to s...
Aug 10, 2020 by Mehreen Farooq
Reflecting to Adapt: A framework for understanding...
COVID-19 has disrupted all aspects of life – and the design and implementation of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) programs is no excep...
Jul 23, 2020 by Natalie Trisilla
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
Ma3an’s social network analysis: a wellspring of...
Measuring CollaborationFor programs like USAID Ma3an, a recurring conundrum is how to measure concepts that are core to civil society projects. How do...
Jun 30, 2020 by Rafael Pilliard-Hellwig
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
Adaptive Leadership in COVID-19 Response
Like many international humanitarian organizations and donors, CARE International is increasingly employing a politically smart approach to adaptive m...
Jun 16, 2020 by Andrew Wells-Dang and Emily Janoch
Adapting In Response To COVID-19 Public Health Res...
ABOUTGraduating to Resilience (the Activity) is a USAID Office of Food for Peace (FFP) funded Activity led by AVSI Foundation in partnership with IMPA...
Jun 11, 2020 by Andie Procopio
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
Balancing crisis response with sustainable impact:...
Crises bring many things to light: how prepared you are to respond and adapt quickly, how you apply lessons from past experiences while adopting new p...
Jun 5, 2020 by Alysson Akiko Oakley
Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Multi-sector Impact Report...
In the midst of the global unprecedented challenges posed by COVID-19, it is high time for countries to conduct analyses to address immediate, mid-ter...
Jun 3, 2020 by Prabodh Devkota

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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