What is a Learning Brief?
A learning brief is a short document focusing on learnings from particular
activities or projects. They are co-created with the people involved using
reflective learning techniques.
Each learning brief:
- Provides context and background.
- Documents what happened and how it happened.
- Explains the roles of the different participants.
- Demonstrates what worked, what didn’t work and how improvements might be made.
- Highlights the achievements, challenges and lessons learnt and how these might be diffused more widely (if relevant).
- Makes recommendations
The overall aim is to capture the learnings in a format that is accessible and
useful to the participants involved and to other relevant stakeholders, including funders and policy makers. The process of writing a learning brief involves intensive, collaborative reflection and deliberation, so they also provide a useful form of internal reflective learning and evaluation, which helps inform future decisions and actions.