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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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    USAID Learning Lab hosts a number of resources and examples that showcase how CLA has been used in practice. 

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She Told Us So (Again): Women tell their COVID-19 ...
Women leaders have proven to be a critical part of COVID-19 response—especially when they get support and opportunities to lead. They are sharing in...
Apr 4, 2022 by Emily Janoch
Strengthening Competencies for Evidence-Based Biod...
Sara Carlson is a Biodiversity and Natural Resources Advisor in USAID's Biodiversity Division and Lexine Hansen and Natalie Dubois support Measuring I...
Mar 18, 2022 by Lexine Hanson
Check Your Assumptions to Collaborate: What we're ...
Women have a human right to participate in public life and decision-making, including in emergencies; yet, women directly affected by crises are still...
Mar 14, 2022 by Tippi Creed-Waring
What is a "Learning Review": The Experience of SDR...
What?From March to December 2021, the Strengthening Disaster Risk Management Systems and Institutions (SDRM-SI) Developmental Evaluation (DE), impleme...
Mar 4, 2022 by Chelsie Kuhn
New Community Led Development Tools Don't Let M&E ...
Community-led development (CLD) is quickly becoming one of international development’s most prominent buzzwords. International NGOs, private donors,...
Feb 22, 2022 by The Movement for Community-Led Development
Devastating vs Democratizing Data: How a global in...
We are moving ever further into the realm of possibility afforded by advanced data analytics and experimental methodologies, such that answers to ques...
Feb 21, 2022 by Alysson Akiko Oakley
A 5-Step Process to Develop (or Strengthen) your T...
We are excited to share our Theory of Change Workbook. The workbook was developed for use and road-tested with USAID/Vietnam staff and implementing pa...
Feb 17, 2022 by Monalisa Salib
Why We Should Stop Asking “What Works in Democra...
As the United States and other donors devote resources to democracy assistance in post-conflict countries, an obvious concern is that this money be sp...
Feb 15, 2022 by Fernanda Buril
How Developmental Evaluation Delivers Evidence to ...
In 2021, USAID Administrator Power presented a new vision for global development that focuses on local partnerships and participation. It aims for 50 ...
Feb 8, 2022 by Chris Thompson
February Month & Learn: The Evolution of Learning ...
Did you know that USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning published the Agency’s Evaluation Policy 11 years ago? Last month, in January, ...
Feb 1, 2022 by USAID Learning Lab Team
Political Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: ...
Shifting sociopolitical norms and creating space for historically marginalized people to fill leadership roles in their communities is no small task. ...
Jan 28, 2022 by Marian Ware and Meryl Miner
Intentional collaboration drives better developmen...
USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) conceptual framework is a driving force of efforts to place Missions around the world in an adap...
Dec 20, 2021 by Adriana Abreu-Combs

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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