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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

Featured Resources

Blog Series: Organizational Learning Plans: The Why, What, and How

Katherine Haugh and Monalisa Salib

PSE MEL: Standard Agency PSE Indicators and Harmonizing Indicator Tool

Mid-Course Stocktaking: Defining Objectives

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Drafting a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Plan and CLA Plan Template

This content is currently under revision to align with the recently updated ADS 201.For guidance and support associated with revisions to ADS 201, please see the Program Cycle overview page. This document, an ADS 201 Additional Help resource, provides direction on how to develop a...

USAID Contribution

| By Monica Matts

CLA Framework, Maturity Tool and Spectrum Handouts

Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Framework and Maturity Tool documents

USAID Contribution

| By USAID LEARN

Organizational Capacity Assessment

Updated version of the OCA tool for facilitated self-assessment of organizational strengths and weaknesses

USAID Contribution

Communities of Practice Guidance

USAID Contribution

| By QED Group

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