Types of Learning Activities

The Involve Communities serve first and foremost the learning needs of its members. Every year, the focus topics and themes of the annual programme are selected through one-to-one calls, capacity needs assessments and an all-members consultation process.

Current online learning events include:

  • Awareness Raising & Discovery: Webinar (or series of webinars) presenting well documented and tested approaches, frameworks, solutions and tools that can be applied at different stages of a project life cycle.
  • South-South Knowledge Exchanges & Lessons Learnt: Workshops designed around documented case studies or a lessons-learnt report privileging south-south and cross-commodities or sectoral knowledge sharing.
  • Learning, Training & Capacity Development: An expert-led programme consisting of several training/courses to teach practitioners a specific skill to contribute to their project or conduct their job. The programme includes learning materials and references and can combine webinars, workshops and sessions to achieve pre-set learning outcomes which are agreed between participants and trainers.
  • Thematic Clinics: Structured online sessions where project practitioners collaboratively explore real project challenges, guided by a facilitator, to generate practical insights, solutions, and peer learning.
  • Learning Fairs: Workshops designed as a dynamic and participatory space for learning and knowledge exchange, aiming to both give visibility to multi-year programmes and strengthening their COP by celebrating country experiences and sharing transferable best practices.
  • Micropractises: Short, very focused, and practice-based small group sessions to help practitioners apply tools and solutions (often previously presented in a learning and capacity development event) to their projects.
  • Collaborative Inquiry: Series of action research events, taking place over several months and up to one year, providing an agile structure for a group of stakeholders to make sense and collaboratively generate knowledge while investigating problems of practice directly relevant to their thematic area. The inquiry concludes with disseminating findings to a wider audience to help trigger change.
  • Coaching: One-on-one sessions helping practitioners build and use more effectively their skills & capabilities .
  • Others based on the specific learning needs of our members.