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Organisational learning in NGOs: creating the motive, means and opportunity (pdf 540kb)

This paper provides an overview of the importance of organisational learning and the processes that can be used to promote it among partner organisations working for international development.  

It draws on the experience of the NGO sector and is directed more specifically towards helping NGOs institutionalise the practice of learning and management knowledge.

It sets out to provide the motive, the means and the opportunity for organisational learning, drawing on practical examples of how pioneering NGOs are taking a strategic approach to organisational learning and explains how learning at an organisational level must also be part of an intensely personal process that goes on in the minds of individuals within the organisation.

The paper also argues that many current models of organisational learning are based on a Western understanding. It explores further the need to engage with capacity building practitioners to explore innovative approaches that are relevant, appropriate and accessible across a wide range of cultures and contexts.

 

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