Anchoring Awareness in the Community - Handicap International

A VARIETY OF LEARNING-FROM-EXPERIENCE PRODUCTS
Learning-from-experience products are varied
and are all found on the DVD-ROM, where
they are classified in three parts:
d A film presenting the project to fulfill the
goal of knowledge
d Learning-from-experience documents:
- A document analyzing the know-how
implemented on the topic of “Anchoring
Awareness in the Community” (the present
document)
- Learning-from-experience sheet providing
know-how on the topic of “Facilitating the
establishment of long-lasting, cross-border
links”
- Learning-from-expereince sheet providing
know-how on the topic of “Strengthening the
health system”
d A “Toolbox” containing the main documents
and tools used for the project (rationale,
activity reports, communication tools, followup
formats, photos, etc.).
HYBRID LEARNING-FROM-EXPERIENCE METHODOLOGY
Most of the work of learning-from-experience
process was dedicated to analyzing
community awareness activity know-how,
which is presented in this document. For this
analysis, the methodology chosen included
three phases, which sometimes occurred in
parallel.
Observation, documentary research and
collection of useful tools:
This phase consisted in reading different
project documents, which were produced
both at the moment of project design (logical
framework and associated narrative) and
during project implementation (activity reports,
reference terms and other reports, mid term
evaluation, etc.).
In addition, for more knowledge of the project
and to feed the “Toolbox,” the different tools
used and produced were reviewed, selected
and classified.
In parallel, observation of activities was
carried out.
On-site activities
This phase consisted in collaborating with
animators on the field to provide support
for identification of the know-how they used
for the project. To do this, we used different
methods:
d Learning-from-experience workshops,
either with animatoranimators teams or with
project advisory committees. The goal of
these workshops was to identify the different
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