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.
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...
Sara Carlson is a Biodiversity and Natural Resources Advisor in USAID's Biodiversity Division and Lexine Hansen and Natalie Dubois support Measuring I...
Women have a human right to participate in public life and decision-making, including in emergencies; yet, women directly affected by crises are still...
What?From March to December 2021, the Strengthening Disaster Risk Management Systems and Institutions (SDRM-SI) Developmental Evaluation (DE), impleme...
Community-led development (CLD) is quickly becoming one of international development’s most prominent buzzwords. International NGOs, private donors,...
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We are moving ever further into the realm of possibility afforded by advanced data analytics and experimental methodologies, such that answers to ques...
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...
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...
In 2021, USAID Administrator Power presented a new vision for global development that focuses on local partnerships and participation. It aims for 50 ...
Shifting sociopolitical norms and creating space for historically marginalized people to fill leadership roles in their communities is no small task. ...
USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) conceptual framework is a driving force of efforts to place Missions around the world in an adap...