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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

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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

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Adaptive management: A practical guide to mitigating uncertainty and advancing evidence-based programming

Alysson Akiko Oakley

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.

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Complexity-Aware Monitoring Discussion Note (Brief)

A Discussion Note introducing the concepts of complexity and its relation to USAID programming. The paper outline five complexity-aware monitoring methods

USAID Contribution

Complexity-Aware Monitoring Discussion Note (Screencast)

Screencast: Complexity-Aware Monitoring Discussion Note

USAID Contribution

| By Melissa Patsalides and Heather Britt

Ten Years of Outcome Mapping: Adaptations & Support

This presentation provides an overview of best practices in outcome mapping in order to further the use and development of outcome mapping and the outcome mapping learning community.

Community Contribution

| By Richard Smith, John Mauremootoo, Kornelia Rassmann

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