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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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    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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    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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    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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Listen to Episode 1!

This seven-part podcast series draws on interviews with thought leaders in organizational learning and international development.

Featured Podcast

Stopping to Think: Why it Pays to Pause and Reflect
Featuring: Stacey Young, Ian Lathrop, Amy Leo
Taking the time to Pause and Reflect is an essential CLA practice that leads to evidence-based decision making and adaptation. First, we’ll explore evidence that group reflection leads to learning and decision-making. Next, we will discuss two opportunities for USAID staff and partners to use Program Cycle processes to pause and reflect. In our third segment, we discuss ...
Listen 28:14
Staying in the Loop: How to Learn from your Data
Featuring: Stacey Young, Ian Lathrop, Amy Leo
Evidence-based decision-making is a powerful tool for transforming USAID from the Inside Out. In this episode, we’ll talk about where we see this happening in other industries, and why it can be challenging at USAID. We will also discuss two examples of innovative learning initiatives at USAID missions. Click here to access the resources mentioned in this episode.
Listen 27:32
Staying Curious, Together: How to Create a Learning Culture
Featuring: Stacey Young, Ian Lathrop, Amy Leo
In this episode, we’ll discuss the key ingredients in a learning culture. First, we define what we mean by a learning culture. Next, we look at research that examines the relationship between CLA and measures of staff satisfaction and empowerment at USAID. And in our third segment, we talk about a successful staff empowerment initiative at a USAID mission. Click here to ...
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Podcast Series

Leaders in Learning

Leaders in Learning draws on interviews that Stacey Young and Piers Bocock conducted with a variety of thought leaders in organizational learning and knowledge management in the international development sector.To learn more, read this introduction to the series.

From the Inside Out: Achieving Better Development ...

From the Inside Out empowers USAID staff and partners with evidence, tips, and tools to collaborate, learn, and adapt in their day-to-day work. Learn more about this series.

Collaborating, Learning and Adapting at USAID

This pilot series explores the origins of CLA at USAID and features interviews with development practitioners using a CLA approach in their work.

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Featured Videos

Community Connector and CLA: Proving the Concept

USAID/Uganda highlights its approach to CLA through the Community Connector project. The project was designed by USAID to include a modular approach that places learning and adaptation in the foreground and catalyze the ...

Using Open Space Technology for Strategy Developme...

USAID/Indonesia highlights its approach to collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) through its strategy development process. The Mission used Open Space Technology to convene a large and diverse set of current and new...

USAID/E3's Biodiversity Cross-Mission Learning Pro...

The concept for this video was a winning submission from the 2015 CLA Case Competition. The video highlights CLA in action through the Conservation Enterprises Cross-Mission Learning Program launched in 2015 by USAID/E3 ...

Video Series

CLA Spotlight

This series is comprised of videos that provide an in-depth look at collaborating, learning and adapting in USAID missions. 

Mission of Leaders

This series highlights USAID missions that have invested in an ever-evolving approach to create an enabling environment for CLA at USAID.

CLA in Action

This series features video interviews with CLA Case Competition submitters about what CLA looks like in practice.

Videos By CLA Component

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Agrilinks

Achieving agriculture-led food security through knowledge sharing

Marketlinks

Market-based solutions for development

Urbanlinks

USAID's sharing platform for resources on sustainable urban development

Landlinks

USAID's knowledge sharing platform focused on land tenure and property rights

Globalwaters.org

Sharing knowledge and ideas to solve global water and sanitation challenges

Climatelinks

A global knowledge portal for climate change & development practitioners

BiodiversityLinks

USAID's knowledge portal to advance biodiversity conservation and development

ResilienceLinks

USAID's knowledge platform for resilience

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  • Program CYCLE
    • Strategic Planning
    • Project Design & implementation
    • Activity Design & Implementation
    • Collaborating Learning & Adapting
    • Monitoring
    • Evaluation
  • Toolkits
    • CLA Toolkit
    • Monitoring Toolkit
    • Evaluation Toolkit
  • What is CLA?
    • Collaborating
    • Learning
    • Adapting
    • Culture
    • Processes
    • Resources
  • CLA In Practice
    • Case Competition
    • Case Map
    • CLA Evidence Dashboard
  • Podcasts and Videos
  • Blog