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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

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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

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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
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Explore a growing collection of resources for guidance on specific learning approaches

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Increasing Advocacy Impact through Networks in Lebanon – A Collaborative and Adaptive Learning Process

Shelley Wieck

Human Rights Support Mechanism: How to Operationalize Learning across a Consortium

Samuel Gerstin

How Strategic Collaborations Led to Laboratory Accreditation in Rural Uganda

Okwalinga Paul

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facilitating systemic change in value chains: lessons learned for strengthening country systems

A background paper on facilitating systemic change in value chains for the November 2012 USAID Experience Summit on Strengthening Country Systems.

USAID Contribution

| By Elizabeth Dunn

complexity and lessons learned from the health sector for country system strengthening

A background paper on health systems strengthening for the November 2012 USAID Experience Summit on Strengthening Country Systems.

USAID Contribution

| By Allan Best, Jessie Saul

a selective review of usaid-funded development management research and practice: relevance for strengthening country systems

A background paper on USAID-funded development management research and practice for the November 2012 USAID Experience Summit on Strengthening Country Systems.

USAID Contribution

| By Derick Brinkerhoff

non-project assistance and policy reform: lessons learned for strengthening country systems

Non-Project Assistance and Policy Reform

USAID Contribution

| By Ronald Oakerson

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