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.
Lane Pollack, former Organizational Learning Advisor for USAID Uganda, explains how CLA is utilized within the mission and how it impacted their progr...
Shannon Young, Contracting Officer Representative of USAID/Tanzania’s Public Sector System Strengthening (PS3) Activity, shares examples of Collabor...
The concept for this video was a winning submission from the 2015 CLA Case Competition. The video highlights CLA in action through the Conservation En...
USAID/Uganda highlights its approach to CLA through the Community Connector project. The project was designed by USAID to include a modular approach t...