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Drafting a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Plan and CLA Plan Template
This content is currently under revision to align with the recently updated ADS 201.
For guidance and support associated with revisions to ADS 201, please see the Program Cycle…
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Top Eleven List for Moving through the Diagnosis Phase
Are you interested in assessing your team, organization, or network’s capacities in Collaborating, Learning & Adapting (CLA)?
This list offers some tips for applying an…
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Pathways to Integrating CLA in Your Work
PPL/LER developed a concept for helping staff to think about intregrating CLA on an individual level, the Pathways for Integrating CLA in Your Work.
Here is a job aid outlining…
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CLA is a Journey: Reflections on a CLA Peer Sharing Event
Lorine Ghabranious is a Learning Fellow with the USAID Africa Bureau and Jessica Ziegler is a Learning Specialist with the USAID LEARN contract that supports the USAID Bureau for…
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Three [More] Myths about Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Debunked
This blog post is a second in a series of about debunking common CLA myths. See the first blog here.In working with USAID missions and implementing partners, we hear a pretty…
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Collaborating, Learning and Adapting at USAID: The Critical Role of Culture, Processes, and Resources
This Guest Editorial for the Food Security Network's Knowledge Management Task Force was written by Stacey Young, Senior Learning Advisor at USAID's Bureau for Policy, Planning and…
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How CLA Improves USAID's Effectiveness
With the impetus to “do development differently,” USAID’s Bureau for Policy Planning and Learning (PPL) introduced the collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) approach in 2011…
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CLA in USAID/Cambodia Site Visit Reporting and Utilization
Every USAID Mission conducts site visits. Site visits are an important tool for learning about project and activity implementation, but sometimes the documentation and follow-up…
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Success Breeds Success: A Case Study in CLA Implementation Across Activities
The USAID/Philippines Health Project (2017–2022) is a portfolio of 11 activities to improve the health of under-served Filipinos. Based on evidence from its 2016 Health Portfolio…
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From Good to Great: USAID/Azerbaijan's Enabling Environment (R)evolution
How do you go from good to great in a non-permissive environment when your budget has been zeroed and staff morale has tanked? In the case of USAID/Azerbaijan, the key was…