WHY AN ALTERNATE LEARNING APPROACH?

Since its inception, the Board and UAF A&P’s leadership5 were drawn to and invested in making UAF A&P a learning organisation. We wanted an approach that would be congruent with the feminist values that the fund was founded on, and offer support to the organisation to function effectively amid ongoing complexity, change, and volatility in Asia and the Pacific (we might say life in general). Simultaneously, they also wanted to strengthen individual staff’s capacity to grow, become more conscious of themselves, and co-create a culture of care.

Usually, a dedicated MEL function is responsible for making sense of data collected, which is often directed externally to donor reports. By contrast, learning in UAF A&P is not done either by the leadership, or by outsiders to the programs, or for back donors primarily.