Learning is the heart of our Partnership, Action Learning is our way. 

Growing out of an initiative by a small group of Dutch funding agencies who shared their idea with their partners in South Africa opened an opportunity for collaboration. Their hope was to search for new and innovative approaches to the HIV AIDS pandemic, and to increase our impact on this pandemic through collaborative efforts. 

The offer to engage with each other equalled our desire to grow; to do “more and better” of what we were each doing on our own. 

Funding (i.e. money) is certainly a good glue, however, the value and motivation through mutual support and sharing of resources is realised by each of our partners. 

Action Learning is an iterative process, an ongoing reflexive practice that seeks to facilitate learning "along the way." Good Development models and practice seek to be inclusive and participatory in their methods. Placing more value on the perspectives (the voices) of the participants (stakeholders), and the broader contexts (local context) allows a project to remain appropriate and thus more effective. 

It is possible for most of us to be a bit more inclusive of young people (who are the target of many of our programs) at each phase of our projects (i.e. planning, implementing, and evaluating), and within each level of our organisational structures. 

The Joint Learning Project (JLP) is implemented in the form of 4 Learning Tracks, each focussing on, and contributing to, areas in our organisations work that we felt we would benefit through learning.

In some instances we have the resources within our Community of Practice (CoP) and in others we gather together to learn from the input of experts in the fields of our questions.

The Learning tracks are titled: 4Life Facilitators, 4Life Skills, Meaningful Participation, and Networks of Care.

4Life Facilitators

4Life Skills

Meaningful Participation

Networks of Care