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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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    Toolkits

    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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  • What is CLA?

    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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  • CLA In Practice

    CLA in Practice

    USAID Learning Lab hosts a number of resources and examples that showcase how CLA has been used in practice. 

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Stopping to Think: Why it Pays to Pause and Reflect

Taking the time to Pause and Reflect is an essential CLA practice that leads to evidence-based decision making and adaptation. First, we’ll explore evidence that group reflection leads to learning and decision-making. Next, we will discuss two opportunities for USAID staff and partners to use Program Cycle processes to pause and reflect. In our third segment, we discuss some of the ways that our team has built Pause and Reflect moments into the way we work. Click here to access the resources mentioned in this episode.

Featured: Stacey Young, Ian Lathrop, Amy Leo
Podcast Url : https://soundcloud.com/usaidlearninglab/stopping-to-think-why-it-pays-to-pause-and-reflect
CLA Approches: Adapting, Pause & Reflect
Program Cycle Component: Collaborating, Learning & Adapting
Series: From the Inside Out: Achieving Better Development Results through Collaborating, Learning and Adapting

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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