Y Cla - Collaboration, Learning, Adaptation

CLA according to two Wkpd articles:

1 Within Collaborative learning, Wikipedia

... Collaborative learning is also employed in the business and government sectors. For example, within the federal government of the United States, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is employing a collaborative project management approach that focuses on collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA). CLA involves three concepts:^[56]

• Adapting strategically based on applied learning.
• Collaborating intentionally with stakeholders to share knowledge and reduce duplication of effort,
• Learning systematically by drawing on evidence from a variety of sources and taking time to reflect on implementation.

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Adaptive management, Wikipedia 

Adaptive management, also known as adaptive resource management or adaptive environmental assessment and management, is a structured, iterative process of robust decision making in the face of uncertainty, with an aim to reducing uncertainty over time via system monitoring. In this way, decision making simultaneously meets one or more resource management objectives and, either passively or actively, accrues information needed to improve future management. Adaptive management is a tool which should be used not only to change a system, but also to learn about the system.^[1] Because adaptive management is based on a learning process, it improves long-run management outcomes. The challenge in using the adaptive management approach lies in finding the correct balance between gaining knowledge to improve management in the future and achieving the best short-term outcome based on current knowledge.^[2] This approach has more recently been employed in implementing international development programs....

Collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) is a concept related to the operationalizing of adaptive management in international development that describes a specific way of designing, implementing, adapting and evaluating programs.^{[35]: 85 [36]: 46} CLA involves three concepts:

1. collaborating intentionally with stakeholders to share knowledge and reduce duplication of effort,
2. learning systematically by drawing on evidence from a variety of sources and taking the time to reflect on implementation, and
3. adapting strategically based on applied learning. CLA practices have tangible benefits; for instance, a recent study recently found that companies "which apply more data-driven and adaptive leadership practices perform better" when examined against those which focus less on those practices.^[37]

CLA integrates three closely connected concepts within the organizational theory literature: namely collaborating, learning and adapting. There is evidence of the benefits of collaborating internally within an organization and externally with organizations.^[38] Much of the production and transmission of knowledge—both explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge—occurs through collaboration.^[39] There is evidence for the importance of collaboration among individuals and groups for innovation, knowledge production, and diffusion—for example, the benefits of staff interacting with one another and transmitting knowledge.^[40][41][42] The importance of collaboration is closely linked to the ability of organizations to collectively learn from each other, a concept noted in the literature on learning organizations. Би^[43][44][45]

CLA, an adaptive management practice, is being employed by implementing partners^[46][47] that receive funding from the federal government of the United States,^[48][49][50] but it is primarily a framework for internal change efforts that aim at incorporating collaboration, learning, and adaptation within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) including its missions located around the world.^[51] CLA has been linked to a part of USAID's commitment to becoming a learning organization.^[52] CLA represents an approach to combine strategic collaboration, continuous learning, and adaptive management.^[53] A part of integrating the CLA approach is providing tools and resources, such as the Learning Lab, to staff and partner organizations.^[54] The CLA approach is detailed for USAID staff in the recently revised program policy guidance.^[31]