ChangeArea_Documentation_testing

=CCAFS-ILRI Workshop on Communications and Social Learning in Climate Change = 8-10 May 2012 ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa =Working group: documentation and testing of social learning =

This group was represented by Jorge Tafur-Chavez.

(//During the 'foundational' workshop of May 2012, five priority change areas were identified, which later formed a major part of the CCSL agenda - as mentioned in a synthesis paper published after the workshop. This page relates the unpolished discussion notes from the working group that defined the agenda for this change area, for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security [CCAFS] and more broadly for the CCSL group. Each of these five change areas remains an important aspect of the CCSL strategy//).


 * See the working group presentations**:
 * (Long version) [[file:Documentation & testing of social learning (long).ppt|Documentation & testing of social learning (long).ppt]]
 * (Short version) [[file:Documentation & testing of social learning (short).ppt|Documentation & testing of social learning (short).ppt]]


 * Presentation **

**Why documentation?**

 * Analyse / test social learning as a tool
 * Inform researchers and policy community (and convince them) on the basis of evidence
 * Improve the practice itself – further developing the learning process

**Activities**
Who can help:
 * 1. Inventory, selection of cases**
 * Based on USP
 * Based on criteria like success or failure, finished or ongoing, number of cases, inside or outside the CGIAR system
 * CGIAR Bangladesh simultaneous cases
 * PROLINNOVA

Who: Invite and involve Keeping in mind social differentiation and representativeness
 * 2. Selection of participants, and invitation**
 * As observers and
 * as participants
 * “owners”
 * researchers
 * “champions”

How?
 * 3. Description**
 * Context, Baseline
 * Activities
 * Process, Results
 * Outputs
 * Outcome : Has SL reached its goal?
 * Collection of information
 * Field visits


 * 4. Analysis (testing)**

Focusing on different categories: (paying attention in each case to social differentiation)
 * Knowledge
 * Attitudes
 * Skills
 * Practice

What: How:
 * Mechanism of causality
 * Attribution
 * Analytical framework (eg. context + mechanism = outcome, causal process tracing)
 * Selecting indicators
 * (On the basis of data, or pre-defined, according to goal or USP)

Different levels: Who: (in addition to involving them all in the process itself)
 * 5. Writing, sharing and dissemination**
 * Participants of the process
 * Other CCAFS
 * “Outside world”
 * Researchers:
 * Journals
 * Conferences
 * Practitioners:
 * “Farming Matters”
 * Share Fair
 * Workshops
 * Radio, videos
 * Cross visits
 * Policy makers
 * Briefs


 * Time frame**: 2 or 3 years – learning / 4 to 10 years – change.


 * Roles**: Facilitators, researchers, media people.


 * Role for CCAFS**:
 * Selecting cases
 * Joining the process
 * Funding and logistics
 * Networking
 * Dissemination


 * Budget**: per case


 * Feedback from the peer review group ** :
 * What kind of case might be looked at?
 * How will that be different from network evaluators?