What we are learning

Evidence and learning is at the heart of everything we do. We want to know if and how we are meeting our objectives towards our strategic goals, and what approaches are more or less effective in getting us there.

We generate learning that relates to these strategic goals and delivery approaches to answer the following overarching learning questions:

• Related to our strategic goals:
  What are the key learnings about HCA-II’s strategic goals? How can these learnings be used by us to inform and influence local, regional and global policy and practice stakeholders?
• Related to our delivery approach:
  What works (or does not) in delivering and managing the HCA-II programme?

The HCA-II learning approach is developed and delivered to consolidate and share our learning. Learning resources incorporate a wide range of activities and learning opportunities from learning briefs, webinars, reflective sessions, and events to case studies, tools, and guidance. They take place both at the individual project level as well as across the whole programme.

Programme-Level resources

Our programme-level learning cycle includes bi-annual reflection workshops as part of our on-going monitoring processes, as well as more in-depth learning through larger exercises at the mid-point and toward the end of the programme. We also have an external global learning partner (GLP) based out of the Institute of Development Studies that supports and facilitates additional learning around emerging areas from programme delivery that require further reflection.

Project-Level resources

Projects are collecting valuable data that informs their learning. The objective is to enable others to learn from their experiences, reflections and lessons learned. Based on their experiences of implementation, each project funded by HCA-II produces their own learning resources.