1. Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
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Learning through our PPA
Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
Becky Saunders, WWF-UK 15/11/13
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What are Lines of Inquiry?
What Lines of Inquiry are we pursuing through the PPA?
What and who’s involved?

3. Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
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“We got experience and learned a lot from different programmes and individuals”
“We are already learning but need to do this better to inform our practice”
“Capturing and disseminating lessons is still only a ‘work in progress’”
“How can we build on and increase our potential for learning across the portfolio?”
Participants of PPA Portfolio Workshop
The idea came about during the PPA Portfolio workshop in February – with the idea of using this approach to foster on-going collaboration and inquiry-based learning between the eight programmes after the workshop.

4. What are Lines of Inquiry / “inquiry based learning”?
Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
What are Lines of Inquiry / “inquiry based learning”?
An approach to learning in which there is no one right way of doing things, or in which the answer to something is not yet known. This approach involves identifying and agreeing a small number of key questions which are then explored by a group of people over an agreed time period. Over time, participants seek to come to a shared understanding with view towards developing a shared agenda for action – turning the learning into action.
Have you come across this / been part of a learning process with this approach?

5. What Lines of Inquiry are we pursuing in the PPA?
Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
What Lines of Inquiry are we pursuing in the PPA?
Evidence
How do we define and gather evidence?
What is high quality evidence?
How do we confirm the effect of our efforts on conservation targets?
How and when do we collect evidence?
How do we use evidence to effect change?
How do we define and gather evidence for meeting conservation targets?
Theory of Change
How frequently are we going back to our TOC?
Where there are two or more projects or programmes with similar TOC – what do we need to do then?
How frequently coming back to the PPMS cycle of Network standards?
Comparison of 2 or more projects through the TOC?
How to better interrogate TOC at different scenarios?
Nested TOCs - where are they and how can we use them? e.g. Boni is nested in CEA and China-Shift
These are the long list of questions that emerged from participants of the Portfolio Workshop

6. What Lines of Inquiry are we pursuing in the PPA?
Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
What Lines of Inquiry are we pursuing in the PPA?
Timescales, upward accountability, strategic learning
How do we get better at designing and implementing for the long term and getting senior management buy in?
How do we learn to listen and listen to teams with other world views?
How do we (WWF UK), get better at supporting design and implementation for the long term? I.e. strategic and secure senior management buy in?
How do we get better at… learning to listen to and listening to learn to the world views of others?
Social and economic tools and benefits
What can we learn about the different social and economic aims?
How do we mainstream the different approaches?
What can we learn about the different economics and social approaches across the portfolio and their benefits to people and the environment?
How do we mainstream social and economic
Evaluation tools into the programme cycle to evaluate social and economic benefits?

7. What Lines of Inquiry are we pursuing in the PPA?
Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
What Lines of Inquiry are we pursuing in the PPA?
Governance
How are we strengthening / influencing governance to achieve our goals?
Different governance strengthening approaches – describe – how have we influenced governance in the past?
What can we learn from these examples? – How to use this learning?
What are the different types and levels of governance – leading to impact of our work?
How are we strengthening/influencing governance to achieve our goals?
Linkages and the role of leadership
Where are the opportunities in the PPA for transformational change?
Sites + advocacy = transformational change
Where are there opportunities within the PPA to link / work across programmes for transformational / catalytic change?
And how can seeing these help us do transformational change within PPA and beyond?
Climate smart conservation / PPA
tbc
The Climate-smart conservation line of inquiry emerged on the 4th day of the workshop and so we didn’t have time to develop key questions – this needs to be the first step of the learning process around this theme, although we do have a record of lots of questions that emerged through break out groups and plenary discussions which we could refer to.

8. Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
Final Clusters
1. Governance and its linkage to transformational change
How are we strengthening / influencing governance to achieve our goals?
Where are the opportunities in the PPA for transformational change?
2. ToC, evidence and strategic learning
How frequently are we going back to our TOC? Where there are two or more projects or programmes with similar TOC – what do we need to do then?
How do we define and gather evidence? What is high quality evidence? How do we confirm the effect of our efforts on conservation targets?
How do we get better at designing and implementing for the long term and getting senior management buy in?
How do we learn to listen and listen to teams with other world views?
3. Climate smart conservation / PPA
Still to be defined!

9. What and who’s involved?
Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
What and who’s involved?
How?:
Conduct 3 ‘experiments’ in cross-programme collaboration and learning;
Develop at least 3 learning outputs;
Contribute to wider organisational learning and/or influencing
Evaluate the ways in which learning has been developed and applied
Facilitated exchanges through WWF PPA Community website; webinars; skype calls…
Who?: Everyone involved in supporting / implementing PPA programmes; the 3 LoIs will be facilitated by WWF-UK’s PPA Unit
Analyse / learn / modify / mainstream
Lines of inquiry
Prototyping
12 Months
1. Opening up the lines of inquiry
2. Deepening the strategic dialogue
3. Prototyping actions

10. Thank you Lines of Inquiry in our PPA
For more background – please refer to the PPA Portfolio Workshop Report from February
All photographs used in this presentation are copyright protected and courtesy of the WWF-Canon Global Photo Network and the respective photographers.

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12. Some screen shots to give a quick insight into what the PPA Community platform looks like
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PPA Community Website
You and your colleagues will receive an invitation soon so that you can join the conversation, upload and download documents!