A step-by-step guide to South-South learning exchanges

Overview

This guide focuses on interactive learning exchanges with stakeholder teams exchanging knowledge and experience to help one or both of the teams work towards change. It includes a strong focus on monitoring and evaluation (M&E). In doing so, the goals are to prospectively ensure that the efforts (time and resources) made for the learning exchange will be worthwhile and to retrospectively assess if the South-South exchange has had the intended effect.

This document has been developed to support the implementation of evidence-based family planning. This has been used in countries implementing the WHO’s Family Planning Accelerator Project, and many of the examples included here reflect the evidence-based guidelines and practices supported by WHO. This should be considered a living document that will be updated based on the experience of using this guide.