Building Capacities in Analyzing & Documenting Lessons Learned

Established in Bangkok in 1987, Regional Community Forestry Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC) is an organisation that works to build the capacities of community forestry institutions. This report contains insights gleaned from a March, 2002 workshop organised to help field workers in community forestry programmes analyse and document their experiences through the writing of case studies, and make those case studies available to partners and clients.

Intended to help guide field workers in regional or in-country programmes, this 28-page document begins with a review of the process of writing a case study and an exploration of the challenges associated with this process. The second section provides an overview of training scenarios developed at the workshop, which focus on building skills in documenting lessons learned during training efforts. A section on developing a two-week course in analytical skill development for facilitators of field workers is followed by appendices with topics like flyer distribution to assess interest in a training course, capacity-building scenarios for partners, and training scenarios for clients.