Learning alliance reflective meeting: Should we develop a framework for learning alliances and how?

A meeting held at IRC on 22 April 2009 helped further explore the learning alliance approach. The objective of the meeting was to define a framework for IRC’s learning alliance projects, building upon experiences and insights from three sources: Wageningen’s experience with sustainable agriculture, Russell Kerkhoven’s experience with facilitating a dialogue process between conflicting groups and Kathy Shordt’s experience with a framework to change people’s hygiene behaviours. The report covers principles and philosophy, the context in which learning alliances are built, working with multiple stakeholders, the role of agencies, issues of outcomes and impact and a table mapping some tools to understand and assess learning alliances.

20090423_Learning alliance discussion summary.doc (365.0 kB)