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On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?In order for staff to collaborate, learn, and adapt effectively, there needs to be a culture in place that supports openness to new learning, processes that help capture knowledge and bring evidence and institutional memory to bear in decision making, and resources to... READ MORE |
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On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?Integrating CLA into how we design and implement programming in an intentional and systematic way requires adequate resources. For example, strategic collaboration requires staff time to identify and engage the right stakeholders. An investment of time is also... READ MORE |
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On this page: What is it? | Important TipsWhat is it?A team or organization’s culture is its set of shared norms and beliefs - both spoken and unspoken. The culture, and resulting organizational climate is established over time by leaders and team members and informed by the organizational purpose and context within which it operates. Culture is continually communicated, reinforced,... READ MORE |
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Activity Design & Implementation, Collaborating, Learning & Adapting
Adapting, Collaborating, Learning, Program Cycle, Resourcing CLA
On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?The development results of an activity will be enhanced when programming is coordinated, grounded in evidence, and adjusted as necessary to optimize effectiveness throughout implementation. By integrating collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA)... READ MORE |
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Activity Design & Implementation, Project Design & Implementation, Strategic Planning
Adaptive Management
On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?USAID’s work takes place in environments that are often unstable and in transition. Even in more stable contexts, circumstances evolve and may affect programming in unpredictable ways. For its programs to be effective, USAID must be able to adapt in response to changes and... READ MORE |
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Strategic Planning
Adapting, Pause & Reflect
On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?Portfolio reviews and the Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) mid-course stocktaking are complementary approaches for a Mission’s ongoing learning and adapting within the Program Cycle. Both processes play an important role, serving as key “... READ MORE |
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On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) is a set of practices that help us improve our development effectiveness. Learning has always been part of USAID’s work, and most USAID missions and implementing partners are already practicing CLA in some way. Our aim now is to make CLA more... READ MORE |
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Budget & Resources, Collaborating, Learning & Adapting
Resourcing CLA
On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) involves using strategic collaboration, continuous learning and adaptive management to improve organizational effectiveness and development results. Integrating CLA into development efforts takes planning. By developing a plan tailored to the... READ MORE |
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Collaborating, Learning & Adapting, Evaluation, Monitoring, Strategic Planning
Learning
On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?A learning agenda includes a (1) set of questions addressing critical knowledge gaps (2) a set of associated activities to answer them and (3) products aimed at disseminating findings and designed with usage and application in mind. A learning agenda can help you:Test and explore... READ MORE |
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Activity Design & Implementation, Project Design & Implementation, Strategic Planning
Collaborating, Organizational Culture
On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?“Achieving and sustaining any development outcome depends on the contributions of multiple and interconnected actors...Each set of interconnected actors whose collective actions produce a particular outcome is a local system.” ~ USAID Local Systems FrameworkDevelopment is an inherently... READ MORE |
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On this page: What is it? | How do I get started? | Important TipsWhat is it?The purpose of monitoring, evaluation and learning practices is to apply knowledge gained from evidence and analysis to improve development outcomes and ensure accountability for the resources used to achieve them (ADS 201.3.5).When investing in monitoring and evaluation, USAID staff... READ MORE |
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Collaborating, Learning & Adapting, Learning
Internal Collaboration, Facilitation, Learning, Continuous Learning & Improvement, Organizational Processes
Compiled in partnership between the U.S. Global Development Lab’s Office of Evaluation and Impact Assessment (Lab/EIA) and the USAID LEARN contract, Learning (in the) Lab: A Utilization-Focused Learning Playbook is designed to share with our colleagues the tools and resources we’ve used to design, develop, implement, and iterate upon a bureau-wide, utilization-focused learning agenda called the... READ MORE |
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Learning
Technical Evidence Base
Armenia Youth Situational Analysis (2019): USAID/Armenia contracted Making Cents International to conduct a cross-sectoral youth assessment (CSYA) to gain a detailed understanding of the drivers that motivate youth and identifies the obstacles or constraints that undermine their contributions to Armenia’s political, economic, and social well-being in a meaningful way. The assessment team... READ MORE |
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Evaluation
Learning, Evaluation, M&E for Learning, Monitoring
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis 2017 Data Quality Analysis (DQA) of the Partnership for Conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity (PCAB) Project reports on the quality of data used to measure five standard indicators of PCAB outputs or outcomes. This DQA report also includes recommendations for USAID and the PCAB implementing partners (IPs) to implement for improving procedures for standard indicator data... READ MORE |
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Strategic Planning
Adapting, Collaborating, Learning, Program Cycle
USAID’s Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) principles and approaches help staff and partners to work more effectively with local actors, country partners, and others to generate and share learning that can be used to inform strategic choices and programming decisions in a Mission’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS). This tool serves as an interface to help users understand... READ MORE |
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Activity Design & Implementation, Monitoring, Planning
Learning, Monitoring, Organizational Processes, Decision-Making
Recommendations for multilateral funding agencies to increase the use of forest monitoring tools across development sectors, as a matter of policy and practice to meet sustainability goals.https://bankinformationcenter.org/en-us/update/forest-monitoring-what-can-world-bank--others-do/ READ MORE |
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Resourcing CLA
Examples of position descriptions for CLA-focused staff as highlighted in the Resourcing CLA landing page of the CLA Toolkit.This position description for a Senior Learning Advisor (PSC-14) provides useful information for those that want to apply or for those developing their own organizational learning advisor position descriptions. The original PD was updated to reflect the evolving set of CLA... READ MORE |
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Resourcing CLA
Example language for a CLA Mechanism as highlighted in the Resourcing CLA landing page of the CLA Toolkit. |
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Learning
Technical Evidence Base, Organizational Processes, Knowledge Management
What is this?This document outlines a systematic and intentional approach to managing the transfer of skills and knowledge in order to support sustainable organizational outcomes. Each section has a brief description of what should be contained in it.When should this be used?This tool is intended to be used throughout the tenure of a staff member from the beginning of their tenure to the end.... READ MORE |
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Collaborating, Learning & Adapting, Evaluation, Monitoring
Learning, Theories of Change, Program Cycle
This webinar is an introduction to performance monitoring at the activity level. It explains some key concepts in performance monitoring and demonstrates how one develops a performance motioning plan based on a project or activity theory of change and its associated logic model. COR/AORs and MEL specialists and anyone else who is wondering how to translate a theory of change into a coherent plan... READ MORE |
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Adapting, Adaptive Management, Organizational Culture, Resourcing CLA
If you are involved in hiring, this tool can help you increase your chances of selecting staff members skilled in adaptive management. It will help answer the questions:Which competencies should I recruit for in order to hire more adaptive employees?Which desired qualifications should I incorporate into position descriptions to attract adaptive employees?Which interview questions should I ask to... READ MORE |
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Organizational Processes, Knowledge Management, Resourcing CLA, Adaptable Mechanisms, MEL Support Mechanisms
Strategic collaboration, continuous learning, and adaptive management throughout the Program Cycle helps USAID missions and operating units (OUs) achieve better development outcomes. Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) can be integrated into the procurement process, solicitation, and management of implementing mechanisms. Support activities, also known as support platforms or support... READ MORE |
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Facilitation, Learning
A Pause and Reflect moment can take many variations (team retreats, individual time to read and process, after-action reviews, etc.), but one of the most common missed opportunities is meetings. These include implementing partner meetings, stakeholder meetings, office meetings, all-hands meetings, portfolio reviews, mid-course stocktaking, or other recurring or one-off meetings. Using... READ MORE |
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Adapting, Organizational Culture, Resourcing CLA
At Mercy Corps, our experience and work on adaptive management has shown time and again that managers are key to creating a team culture where individuals are encouraged to collaborate, learn and adapt. We are now training managers and their teams in four specific practices to foster this adaptive culture. |
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Adapting, Adaptive Management, Organizational Processes
There is some agreement that flexible and adaptive management, throughout the programme cycle and in the financial and operational management of implementation, is essential for programme effectiveness. Yet for a wide variety of reasons, most organisations have far to go to reach this adaptive ideal. This study provides a catalyst for an open discussion of the many challenges to adaptive... READ MORE |
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Organizational Culture
Research shows that companies that use a few specific cultural catalysts — that is to say, those that use informal emotional approaches to influencing behavior — are significantly more likely to experience change that lasts. Of the companies that reported consciously using elements of their culture in Strategy’s 2013 Global Culture & Change Management Survey, 70 percent said their firms... READ MORE |
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Collaborating, Learning & Adapting
Adapting, Adaptive Management, Organizational Processes
This job aid will help you determine how best to resolve a challenge/issue in programming. It is intended for use by USAID, partners, and others working in international development. |
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Collaborating, Organizational Processes, Resourcing CLA
Most USAID Missions and USAID/Washington operating units (OUs) have a set of guidance, policies, and templates to manage the administrative, logistical, and security aspects of onboarding and offboarding staff. Less often, however, is there a system in place to manage the transfer of institutional knowledge, contextual understanding, and critical relationships that have been acquired by the... READ MORE |
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Adapting, Collaborating, Learning, Organizational Culture, Organizational Processes, Resourcing CLA
PPL/LER developed a concept for helping staff to think about intregrating CLA on an individual level, the Pathways for Integrating CLA in Your Work. Here is a job aid outlining that guide for thinking systematically or holistically about CLA. READ MORE |
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Learning
Learning
Political Economy Analysis (PEA) is an analytical approach to help understand the underlying reasons why things work the way they do and identify the incentives and constraints impacting the decisions of the public, policy makers and stakeholders in a relevant system. By helping identify these influences — political, economic, social and cultural — PEA supports a more contextually informed... READ MORE |
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