Dissemination & Lesson Learning
Development partners are now keener than ever to demonstrate their impact, achievements and progress towards goals. A dissemination exercise provides an opportunity to do this through capturing and sharing lessons learned from experience with a range of audiences - while provided the following benefits:
- enhanced access to information, thus boosting transparency and openness
- improved future implementation and delivery
- boosts morale and performance by helping people see their own achievements
- develops writing skills and give staff the reward of authored publications
- helps build support through informed advocacy messages
We can assist our clients by facilitating a learning and sharing process that results in the capturing and generation of lessons from programme implementation. By sharing knowledge you can:
- allow other practitioners to learn from your experience and avoid 're-inventing the wheel'
- help stakeholders at different levels understand the relevance of your activities and achievements, thus improving collaboration and co-ordination
- inform policy-makers to promote a more appropriate enabling environment
- raise the profile of achievements to demonstrate performance and increase the likelihood of future support and engagement
LTS has extensive experience in helping development partners analyse and share the lessons from their experience. We have developed and tested an approach for working with stakeholders and partners to develop consensus on key lesson areas and to generate effective 'learning and influencing' messages for a range of audiences.
We can provide the level of service that suits the clients needs: from taking full responsibility for analysis of achievements and lessons then writing and producing documents, to simply facilitating a learning process and giving editorial support.
- we facilitate processes aimed at capturing and generating lessons from programme and project implementation in order to ensure impact and sustainability.
Our specialist team can:
- Develop a communication strategy which identifies a vision for the end products, and the use of products to lobby.
- Identify and engage with key "lesson-holders" and "target audiences" to ensure that opportunities for learning and a variety of perspectives are not lost.
- Facilitate a learning process with the project staff, professional peers, beneficiaries, officials at all levels the project has contact with.
- Provide analyse and synthesis of the key lessons and identify who needs to hear them.
- Develop appropriate products (policy briefing notes, posters, practice notes sharing "top tips", presentations, manuals, CD-ROMS or videos).
Examples of our dissemination products can be found here [PDF document].
Relevant case studies of our recent work are provided here
