KPSRL
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 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
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Provide space for KPSRL network to reflect on and make sense of findings emerging from the study.
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Unpacking the key arguments and recommendations emerging around 3 selected themes of the study localization, co-creation and uptake.
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Identify paths to realistically reframe the programming and policy goals in FCAS, in relation to localization, co-creation and uptake efforts.
Agenda
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14:00 – 14:05 |
Welcome |
KPSRL |
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14:05 – 14:25 |
Key findings & recommendations |
Research Team |
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14:25 – 14:35 |
Reflection on decolonisation as a useful frame for learning |
Ruby Quantson Davis, Peace Direct |
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14:35 – 14:45 |
Reflection on co-creation as a principle of engagement and a process for learning |
Laura Cortés Varón, BSocial (TBC) |
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14:45 – 14:50 |
The challenges of learning uptake |
Annika Erickson-Pearson, Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP).
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14:50 – 15:15 |
Questions, comments and discussion – round 1 |
Audience, key respondents, MFA (Facilitated by research team) |
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15:15 – 15:40 |
Questions, comments and discussion – round 2 |
Audience, key respondents, MFA (Facilitated by research team) |
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15:40 – 15:50 |
Reflection & take-aways |
NL MFA |
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15:50 – 15:00 |
Closing |
KPSRL |
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:
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Localization (and Decolonization): useful frame for learning?
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Co-creation as a Principle of Engagement and a Process for Learning in Humanitarian, Development, and Peacebuilding Nexus
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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.
KPAC24 Follow-Up: The Hague
On the afternoon of December 12th, KPSRL is organizing a follow up event in The Hague at the Postillion Hotel for its Annual Conference in Dakar. Please find the registration link below.
Please note that there are limited spots available for that event, which means that (1) we can only welcome one participant per organization and (2) registration is on a first come, first serve basis.
Additionally, please note that we are unfortunately not able to cover travel/accommodation costs for this one-day conference.
The key goals are:
- Link key recommendations that emerged during KPAC24 in Dakar (insights on processes, needs, worldviews) to the realities of donors and INGOs in The Hague (political trends, funding landscape, institutional practices).
- Bring together different discussions in the past year(s) within the KPSRL network on rethinking international cooperation in SROL in the current timeframe of (geo)political shifts.
- Jointly discuss future pathways for the KPSRL network after recent news of discontinued funding.
See the draft program below. Expect an afternoon (app. 12:30 - 17:30 + drinks) with interactive discussions.
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Topic |
Host |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Walk in, welcome snacks & political cartoon exhibition |
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13:00 – 13:15 |
Presentation KPAC24 Dakar: Building Trust, Pacifying Power & Connecting Realities |
Gorée, REPAOC |
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13:15 – 14:45 |
Opening panel: ‘Human Security in a Fragmenting World Order’ |
KPSRL |
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14:45 – 15:15 |
Break |
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15:15 – 17:15 |
World Café (3 rounds of 40 minutes) The Future of the Sector: Uptake from KPAC24 Dakar: |
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17:15 - 17:35 |
Reporting back & brief discussion |
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17:35 - 18:00 |
Closing & concluding remarks |
KPSRL |
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18:00 – 19:30 |
Borrel |
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For more information and questions around this event, please contact Christian Kuitert: c.kuitert@kpsrl.org.
Reshaping Partnerships
Current North-South strategic partnerships often struggle to be fully equitable. Co-designing problems and solutions within the partnership chain can provide valuable insights. Plan International, in collaboration with KPSRL, is hosting a learning event. The aim is to share, reflect and discuss the strategic partnership chain, in its current and preferred shape. The presented findings, are the results of human centred co-design sessions, collected during a one year project. Participants included girls and young women, community members, development practitioners, donors, and humans in the private and academic sector. Main topics of discussion of the learning session are challenges, opportunities, and power dynamics involved in current and future partnership set-ups. More importantly, we seek to exchange on how we can take action for more equitable partnerships.
Agenda:
10:00-12:00: Learning discussion
Learning discussion followed by a working lunch
Register for this learning event via the link below.
KMF Research Report Launch: Integration of MHPSS approaches in accountability mechanisms for atrocity crimes
This is a hybrid event. Both in-person and online participants need to register through the link below.
The role of victims and of victim-witnesses in national and international accountability mechanisms for atrocity crimes has progressively gained ground over the past two decades. This development increased the need for a better understanding of the potential psychological impact of the work of these mechanisms on survivors/victims and witnesses. It also triggered a heightened interest in how mental health and psychosocial (MHPSS) approaches can improve witness evidence and victim well-being and, ultimately, improve justice outcomes. However, notwithstanding the increased focus on victim-centred justice, the use of MHPSS approaches and trauma-informed methodologies is still underdeveloped and only scarcely integrated in the work of most justice mechanisms.
The Integration of mental health and psychosocial approaches in accountability mechanisms for atrocity crimes research project, supported by the Knowledge Management Fund and the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law, aimed to fill this gap by making good practices and know-how widely available to practitioners in the justice field through guidelines and by strengthening a community of practice around the topic. The key objective being that this project becomes a catalyst for further integration of mental health and psychosocial approaches in accountability mechanisms to make them truly victim and witness-centered.
To mark the release of the research report, a launch event co-organized by the lead researcher An Michels, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law will be held on May 16th, 2024 at the Carlton Ambassador Hotel in The Hague and online (for both, registration is needed). The launch event will bring together stakeholders, including legal experts, MHPSS practitioners, human rights advocates, policymakers, and representatives from affected communities, to discuss strategies, challenges, and best practices in ensuring meaningful and coherent use of MHPSS approaches and trauma-informed methodologies in accountability-seeking processes.
For more information on the event, please download this pdf.