Improving your Programmatic Learning Journey: A Resource Guide for HDP Nexus Practitioners

The Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law (KPSRL) is organizing an online webinar discussion on Monday 25 November (14:00 – 16:00 CEST). In this session, we will unpack KPSRL’s soon to be published study: ‘Improving your Programmatic Learning Journey:  A Resource Guide for HDP Nexus Practitioners’ with an international audience SROL and HDP nexus practitioners. 

Objectives  

• Provide space for KPSRL network to reflect on and make sense of findings emerging from the study. 

• Unpacking the key arguments and recommendations emerging around 3 selected themes of the study localization, co-creation and uptake. 

• Identify paths to realistically reframe the programming and policy goals in FCAS, in relation to localization, co-creation and uptake efforts. 

Background  

Between 2022 and 2024, KPSRL Secretariat piloted a Programmatic Learning Instrument (henceforth PLI).  The PLI was a dedicated budget line aiming to stimulate and facilitate programmatic learning. It built on the experience over the years that the strongest need and potential for learning in the Security & Rule of Law (SRoL) sector is located at the program implementation level, primarily in the field, and at the portfolio management level. 

As part of the PLI, The KPSRL Secretariat commissioned a collaborative study to support the refinement of the Programmatic Learning Instrument as well as to support the role of the KPSRL in providing advice on options available for learning interventions to policymakers and programming partners. The study (which is based,  on in-depth discussions with seven organizations and initiatives in late 2023 and early 2024 and a survey of relevant literature),  culminated into a resource guide intended to serve as a resource and reference for practitioners, policymakers and others working in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding (HDP) nexus and interested in better understanding the issues of learning and programmatic learning, how programmatic learning occurs, how uptake following learning happens, and what prevents more consistent and meaningful uptake. Specific recommendations were also made to the NL MFA/ DGIS Leadership based on key findings of the Study. 

Building from specific cases studies, the session will delve into 3 selected themes emerging from the guide:  

• Localization (and Decolonization): useful frame for learning? 

• Co-creation as a Principle of Engagement and a Process for Learning in Humanitarian, Development, and Peacebuilding Nexus 

• The challenges of uptake in complex environments 

The session will make sense of the findings by exploring nuances around the 3 concepts (see above), delve into promising and ‘realistic’ prospects and ask about scope for peer learning and collaboration across different stakeholders and development funders to ‘walk the talk’ of programmatic learning.