Learning for Influence Methodology

The Learning for Influence methodology is for development organizations who want to better understand the change processes that they contribute to, the policy change they engage in, how they can influence policy change, and how the individuals in the organizations themselves are changing as well.

The methodology helps organizations document their knowledge of the change processes they aim to influence, by helping them articulate their values, and using narratives and storytelling to show how they create impact. Through storytelling within a complexity framing, experiences can be captured and articulated, which may have been missed by other monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) approaches. 

The Learning for Influence methodology was developed through an iterative pilot process with the International Education Association (IEA) Lebanon and the FIT-ED, through the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada.