Workshop Summary
Does an intentional, systematic and resourced approach to collaborating, learning and adapting contribute to development outcomes? In the session, we explore how integrating CLA into our work helps to ensure that our programs are coordinated with others, grounded in a strong evidence base, and iteratively adapted to remain relevant throughout
implementation. Our aim now is to make CLA more systematic and intentional throughout the Program Cycle, and to dedicate the resources necessary to make it happen.
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USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) and its support mechanism, LEARN, have developed
a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Framework and Maturity tool to help USAID missions think
more deliberately about how to plan for and implement CLA approaches that fit the mission’s context and assist
them in achieving their development objectives. While the tool is intended primarily for USAID audiences to be
used in participatory self-assessment workshops, the CLA Framework and maturity spectrum are relevant to a
wider audience
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Although collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) are not new to USAID, they often do not happen regularly or
systematically and are not intentionally resourced. The CLA framework above identifies components and subcomponents to
help you think more deliberately about what approach to CLA might be best tailored to your organizational or project
context. The framework recognizes the diversity of what CLA can look like in various organizations and projects while also
giving CLA structure, clarity, and coherence across two key dimensions:
CLA in the Program Cycle: how CLA is incorporated throughout Program Cycle processes, including strategy, project,
and activity design and implementation; and
Enabling Conditions: how an organization’s culture, business processes, and resource allocation support CLA integration.
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CLA Matrix Handouts- Arabic
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CLA Maturity Spectrum (Arabic)
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CLA Maturity Spectrum (English)
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CLA Presentation
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CLA Self-Assessment and Action Planning Worksheet
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A WORKSHOP TRAINING IN COLLABORATING, LEARNING AND ADAPTING (CLA)
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CLA Workshop- Table Exercise Handouts
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