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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

CivicSpace.tech: Citizen Engagement in a Digital Age

USAID/DRG Center

How-To Note: Prepare and Maintain a Performance Management Plan (PMP)

IEG Knowledge Series - Data-Sensing & Data Mapping Tools

Featured Collections & Toolkits

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DRG Impact Evaluation and Survey Reports

Recent DRG Impact Evaluation reports examine:(1) USAID's Ghana Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms (GSAM) project: An impact evaluation of USAID's GSAM project, which aims to increase accountability of local District Assemblies in Ghana, tested the effect of two distinct efforts to increase accountability and...

Community Contribution

Participatory Impact Assessment: A Design Guide

Community Contribution

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

Results Agenda

This blog post offers insight into the Results Agenda.

Community Contribution

| By Owen Barder

DFID Working Paper: Broadening the Range of Designs and Methods for Impact Evaluations

Broadening the Range of Designs and Methods for Impact Evaluations

Community Contribution

Practical Approach to KM Maturity Assessment in Nuclear Organisations