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.
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.
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.
Building and using data and evidence are central to improving USAID’s work and operationalizing the Journey to Self-Reliance. Learning agendas are a tool that can help us realize data-driven decision-making in our operations and programming, by identifying and addressing... read more
Compiled in partnership between the U.S. Global Development Lab’s Office of Evaluation and Impact Assessment (Lab/EIA) and the USAID LEARN contract, Learning (in the) Lab: A Utilization-Focused Learning Playbook is designed to share with our colleagues the tools and... read more
These tips are part of a series of tips and resources to support context-driven adaptation in programming. For other resources, see the Context-Driven Adaptation Collection at https://usaidlearninglab.org/context-driven-adaptation-overview (internal staff version at https... read more
This guidance is intended to inform USAID staff, especially Mission project design and management teams and OAA staff, on options for designing flexible, shock responsive programs and as well as options to respond to shocks through existing development programs that were... read more
Milo Mitchell International Food Policy Research Institute 2013This post was written by Judy Payne, Kristin Davis and Suprita Makh.Today, almost every effort to provide agriculture extension and advisory services involves digitally-enabled tools or services and there is... read more
Milo Mitchell International Food Policy Research Institute 2013This post was written by Judy Payne, Kristin Davis and Suprita Makh.Today, almost every effort to provide agriculture extension and advisory services involves digitally-enabled tools or services and there is... read more
These tips are part of a series of tips and resources to support context-driven adaptation in programming. For other resources, see the public version of the Context-Driven Adaptation Collection or the internal staff version.
This note collects a few tips, from those who... read more
These tips are part of a series of tips and resources to support context-driven adaptation in programming. For other resources, see the public version of the Context-Driven Adaptation Collection or the internal staff version.
While immediate programming benefits when it is... read more
Successfully adapting your programmatic efforts and policy engagement to the context depends on maintaining your understanding of that context. Given this, continuous learning and feedback loops--not only about your programming, but also about the environment you are... read more
This post was written by Ellen Galdava of FHI 360 and Kwasi Donkor of USAID.Everyone from amateur gardeners to agricultural experts know that pest management is one of the most important aspects of good agricultural practice. This remains true for smallholder farmers. For... read more