Documenting change
Many projects, programmes and developmental processes document outcomes and compile the positive impacts of an intervention for an external audience. By contrast, process documentation records and supports the process itself. In particular, it looks at the change process through the eyes of those involved in it, and reflects their diverging points of view.
Social change is a non‐linear and often unpredictable process. Documenting the change process, successes and challenges is vitally important for learning from and improving upon the work carried out in development initiatives.
Documentation can be in written form- such as case studies, fact sheets, blogs, policy briefs, but also time-lines, maps, drawings and comics, - as well as in audio-visual formats such as videos and photo stories.
Process Documentation resources
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Process Documentation an approach to understand and address change over time. In the WASH sector, IRC has introduced the method in various sub-sector (Urban, Rural, Water, Sanitation, Water Resources) and provided hands-on training and support.
IRC pro-actively seeks sharing and learning on non-sector specific approaches, among others through the KM4Dev community of practice.
