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.
This case is concerned with Catholic Relief Services’ learning around a safe-fail pilot of the use of evaluative thinking (ET) in the Feed the Future ‘Mawa’ Project located in the Eastern Province of Zambia. It is CRS’ belief that nurturing a culture of ET can contribute to... read more
The Center for Theory of Change is a non-profit organization established to promote quality standards and best practice for the development and implementation of Theory of Change, with a particular focus on its use and application in the areas of international development,... read more
The USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program works with the Ugandan Ministry of Education to develop a model for improving the reading in the early primary school grades. Though initial results were promising (reading achievement was significantly higher in the... read more
As part of the Learning About Learning (L-squared) initiative, this one-pager describes lessons learned on the potential risks involved in implementing a knowledge management and learning project from the KDMD experience including a definition, value proposition,... read more
As part of the Learning About Learning (L-squared) initiative, this one-pager describes lessons learned on the importance of using resources adaptively and transparently as part of a knowledge management and learning approach from the KDMD experience including a definition... read more
As part of the Learning About Learning (L-squared) initiative, this one-pager describes the variety of processes that support knowledge management and learning as well as lessons learned on how to integrate these processes from the KDMD experience including a definition,... read more
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This solicitation, posted on FedBizOpps.gov, provides an example from USAID/Colombia of a contract to obtain Mission-wide evaluation technical and advisory services. The contractor will assist the Mission with the design and implementation of quantitative and qualitative... read more
As part of the process of designing a new program to provide monitoring, evaluation and learning support services and build capacity of USAID/Uganda to implement USAID's Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting agenda and in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation... read more