Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Framework & Key Concepts - USAID (n.d.)

This 2 page collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) Framework 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. It sets out two key dimensions:

• CLA in the Program Cycle: how CLA is incorporated into planning and design processes throughout the Program
  Cycle in order to improve their effectiveness; and
• Enabling Conditions: how an organization’s culture, daily operating processes, and resource allocation support CLA
  integration.

Organizations need both integrated CLA practices appropriate for their context and conducive enabling conditions to
become stronger learning organizations capable of managing adaptively. The framework stresses the holistic and integrated
nature of the various components of CLA to reinforce the principle that CLA is not a separate workstream—it should be
integrated into existing processes to strengthen the discipline of development and improve aid effectiveness.