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RE: How to define and identify lessons learned?

Paul L. Mendy

Gambia

Paul L. Mendy

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

IFAD/AfDB/IsDB co-funded Gambia National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project - Nema Chosso

Posted on 13/01/2023

From one of my former projects we developed a publication called Compendium which is a consolidation of lessons learned from seven years of implementation. This task was in preparation of the Project Completion Report which subsequently informed the design of a new/follow up project.

The process of documenting lessons learned in project management is a systematic one and involves consultations with a wide range of stakeholders and beneficiaries alike to identify and generate evidences which substantiate the selected experiences as lessons learned.

Techniques for processing lessons learned could be one or a mix of the following:

1. Outcome Harvesting (OH), 

2. After-Action Reviews (AAR) and/or 

3. Perspective Analysis (PA) 

These are techniques I have experience applying and I found them effective.

Kind regards,

Paul