Facilitating the adoption of experience capitalization to inspire change

The Rural Finance and Community Improvement Programme Phase II (RFCIP II) in Sierra Leone has started several experience capitalization activities, from organising and facilitating training workshops for key project staff, to producing knowledge products and sharing them with other development programmes. This article highlights some of the key steps taken for the adoption of the approach, as well as the lessons learnt and the way forward

New rural finance institutions in Sierra Leone

Working to eradicate rural poverty and promote economic growth, the Government of Sierra Leone, with financial support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development, has established 17 rural finance institutions across the country. With the widest financial network in the country, community banks are providing access to saving and loan facilities for increasing numbers of rural people

Experience capitalization: Information we might otherwise have missed

I was officially introduced to the experience capitalization approach at a CTA-organised workshop for the anglophone countries in West Africa in Ghana, back in March, 2017. This followed up on a two-day meeting organised by a consultant in Sierra Leone a month beforehand. During the workshops our team was introduced to the methodology and saw how the experience capitalization documentation process differs from standard monitoring and evaluation. We also covered the concepts behind writing articles based on our work for wider dissemination to interested parties