"Design and implement learning agenda to strengthen humanitarian action"

Strengthening learning from humanitarian action through the design and implementation of a continuous learning agenda is in line with the commitments and quality criteria of the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), and require that “Humanitarian actors are continuously learning and improving”

Most of the time, continuous learning is embedded within each NGO’s MEAL Policy and therefore within projects and programmes’ MEAL Plan but organizations often face challenges to implement it concretely. Learning for Change can support your organization and project staff to design and implement consistent and adaptive learning agenda through:

• Defining learning themes/questions
• Selecting the relevant sources and targets : gathering data from MEAL system’s and plan for dedicated learning activities
• Selecting relevant methodologies depending on context, project/programme length and available resources : from real time learning to in-depth capitalization
• Implementing collective learning activities
• Analysing data to provide insight for continuous project/programme improvement
• Promoting and disseminating knowledge produced

Learning agenda & strategy can be implemented at different level of an organization and should be present at every layer of humanitarian action. It can focuses on a project life cycle implementation but can also be thought at thematic level or embedded within organization overall strategy to enhance and strengthen its learning culture.

Learning For Change will adapt and deliver learning agenda and implementation strategy depending on your organization’s vision and need for support.

• Design a collective learning plan and guidance note to implement real time learning activities in 46 countries
• Provide on line technical support to project teams to implement learning plan
• Develop and deliver on line and live learning from experience activities with 32 projects teams worldwide  using After Action Review tool
• Provide regular feedback and analysis on lessons learnt during Global MEAL conferences

• Design learning agenda matrix and implementation plan
• Define and Adapt relevant methodologies and tools to collect lessons learnt and good practices
• Participative workshop with regional coordination team
• Regular brief and support meeting in close collaboration with MEAL teams on the field
• Capacity building sessions on MEAL & Continuous learning key components