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Lesson Learning: How will we recognise it when we bump into it ? This is the title of an 8 page paper presented at the 1997 Joint Funding Scheme/UK NGOs Workshop, held in Edinburgh in early July. The focus of this year's workshop was on Lesson Learning. Learning is one of the two justifications for developing M&E systems, the other being the need to meet accountability requirements. Everyone seems to be agreed on the importance of lesson learning. But how can we tell when lessons have been learned ? This is not an academic question if NGOs are going to devote more staff time and money in order to improve their lesson learning capacity, and if they are going to seek donor support to do so. This paper outlines a number of ways in which lesson learning can be recognised when it takes place. In other words, indicators of lesson learning. The paper looks at definitions and descriptions of: lessons, lesson learning, generalisation, new lesson learning, memory of old lessons, lateral learning, depth of learning, attention, specialisation, and capacity for learning. It ends with some suggested implications for management information systems development, and how to recognise learning by whole organisations and sectors. The paper was prepared for the 1997 BOND/JFS Workshop held in Edinburgh, 2-4th July.
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