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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

DRAFT: USAID Evidence Framework

Elizabeth Roen

MEASURING SYSTEMIC CHANGE IN MARKET SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT – A STOCK TAKING

Marcus Jenal et al.

The DRG Learning Agenda: Building a Foundation for Evidence-Based and Data-Driven Programming

Featured Collections & Toolkits

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Knowing When to Adapt - A Decision Tree

A decision tree for managing interventions adaptively

Community Contribution

| By Matthew Baker

CLA Framework, Maturity Tool and Spectrum Handouts

Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Framework and Maturity Tool documents

USAID Contribution

| By USAID LEARN

Uganda CLA Annex

USAID/Uganda's CLA Annex describes the value of collaborating, learning, and adapting, as well as activities that Uganda will accomplish under the CLA.

USAID Contribution

| By Jeremiah Carew

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