Tracking, Learning and Sharing (TLS): Condensed framework
Traditional monitoring and evaluation efforts often remain confined to individual projects, without an active dissemination of knowledge and sharing between like-minded partners across the implementation, research, and policy spheres. To overcome this challenge, the Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) has developed an innovative strategy to collectively track, learn, and share (TLS) evidence from research on climate adaptation initiatives.
TLS draws on best practices from knowledge management research and the lessons from other consortia of partners working on climate change adaptation. This document provides an overview of the TLS framework, along with suggested tools and methods for tracking, learning, and sharing across the diverse membership of the ARA.
The ARA aims to use TLS to develop a community of practice that collectively builds the evidence base for what works in climate change adaptation.
What is the TLS strategy?
TLS is the framework that the ARA uses to document, share, and incorporate research lessons into practice. The ARA is a global collaborative effort to catalyse increased investment and capacity for action-oriented research that supports effective adaptation to climate change, primarily in developing countries, at the scale and urgency demanded by the science.
As part of the effort to improve the evidence base and collective understanding on adaptation, the ARA has developed an innovative TLS strategy which aims to improve the practitioners’ ability to:
- learn actively about what works and what does not when designing, conducting and applying results-oriented action research for adaptation and resilience;
- share their learning with each other and with other stakeholders in the adaptation ecosystem;
- track their progress against the ARA outcomes and Principles as a component of learning.
Operationalising the framework
With a diverse membership that brings a range of different implementation approaches and research expertise to the ARA, a collective mapping of knowledge and research needs is a critical foundation for the TLS framework. This document describes how to identify knowledge and learning needs, and subsequently use these exercises to define a broader learning agenda for the ARA.
The ARA is fully committed to operationalising the framework described in this document, a position evidenced by the fact that tracking, learning, and sharing activities were piloted in 2022 and received very favourably by ARA’s membership.
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