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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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Strategic Planning

Project Design & Implementation

Activity Design & Implementation

Collaborating Learning & Adapting

Monitoring

Evaluation
Toolkits
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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Monitoring Toolkit

Evaluation Toolkit

CLA Toolkit
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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Collaborating

Learning

Adapting

Culture

Processes

Resources
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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Case Competition

Case Map

CLA Evidence Dashboard
Podcasts and Videos
Blog

Resources

Explore a growing collection of resources for guidance on specific learning approaches

Featured Resources

Making Adaptive Rigour Work: Principles and Practices for Strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Adaptive Management

Ben Ramalingam et al.

Towards Evidence-Informed Adaptive Management: A Roadmap for Development and Humanitarian Organisations

Kevin Hernandez et al.

CivicSpace.tech: Citizen Engagement in a Digital Age

USAID/DRG Center

Featured Collections & Toolkits

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Geospatial Impact Evaluation Methodology

this new innovative methodology is being employed to evaluate program interventions, using case examples from USAID, the German Development Bank, and the World Bank.

USAID Contribution

Knowledge Management Reference Group Meeting: Data Visualization

Here are the resources from a March 18, 2015 KM Reference Group meeting on Data Visualization

USAID Contribution

Participatory Impact Assessment: A Design Guide

Community Contribution

| By Andy Catley, John Burns, Dawit Abebe, Omeno Suji

Guidance Note #4: Use of Impact Evaluation Results

Use of Impact Evaluation Results

Community Contribution

| By David Bonbright

Guidance Note #3: Introduction to Mixed Methods in Impact Evaluation