Congratulations to the Winners and Finalists of the 2024 CLA Case Competition!
This annual competition is hosted by USAID’s Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource Management (PLR). It captures how USAID staff and implementing partners around the globe practice strategic collaboration, continuous
learning, and adaptive management to improve development programming. The competition, celebrating its milestone 10th year, collected a record 176 cases, with 73% from first-time participants. These numbers show the reach and breadth in this year’s case submissions of USAID and partners putting CLA into practice for better development programming.
With a database of over 800 cases, the Case Competition continues to grow our evidence base for CLA. Find out which cases were selected as winners and finalists and explore all the cases from this year on USAID’s Learning Lab Website!
What is CLA?
Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) is a set of systematic and intentional practices that help improve development effectiveness.Strategic collaboration, continuous learning, and adaptive management link together all components of the Program Cycle. 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.
- Collaborating: Are we collaborating with the right partners at the right time to promote synergy over stove-piping?
- Learning: Are we asking the most important questions and finding answers that are relevant to decision making?
- Adapting: Are we using the information that we gather through collaboration and learning activities to make better decisions and make adjustments as necessary?
- Enabling Conditions: Are we working to create an organizational environment that supports collaborating, learning, and adapting efforts?
If you’re new to CLA, start here. For more resources on planning and implementing CLA approaches in your development program, browse the CLA Toolkit on USAID Learning Lab.
