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