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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

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

Featured Collections & Toolkits

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Connecting the Dots: Systems Practice and Political Economy

A review of how systems thinking and political economy lenses fit together.

Community Contribution

| By David Jacobstein and Tjip Walker

Realtime Data for Adaptive Management: BRAMA Belarus

Techniques for achieving results and tracking progress in the fluid and rapidly changing operating environment of authoritarian-ruled Belarus.

Community Contribution

Developmental Evaluation: A Practical Approach to CLA Implementation

CLA and Developmental Evaluations

Community Contribution

| By Shannon Griswold

Building Resiliency in Northern Ghana through Collaborative Project Adjustments

The Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) program is a five-year, $60 million, Feed the Future program that seeks to reduce household poverty and malnutrition in 17 districts in Northern Ghana. The program delivers a variety of activities through local District Assemblies in the following technical areas: agriculture,...

Community Contribution

| By Bethany Davidson, Elizabeth Adams

Developing Country-Specific Gender Monitoring Indicators for Men and Women

The challenge that CARE sought to address in Malawi was to take forward the rich findings from a previously conducted, qualitative Mid-term Review so that instead of becoming a one-off exercise, the evaluation would rather feed into the development of user-friendly monitoring tools that could help program staff be alert...

Community Contribution

| By Emily Janoch, Emily Hilenbrand, Pranati Mohanraj, Steff Deprez

Attending to Interrelationships, Perspectives, and Boundaries: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Principle

Attending to Interrelationships, Perspectives, and Boundaries

USAID Contribution

| By Bob Williams and Heather Britt

Synchronizing Monitoring with the Pace of Change in Complexity: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Principle

Synchronizing Monitoring with the Pace of Change in Complexity

USAID Contribution

| By Richard Hummelbrunner and Heather Britt

Complexity-Aware Monitoring at USAID (Brief)

Complexity-Aware Monitoring at USAID