April 2008: Lessons learned during the investigation phase

COPLA has awarded lessons learning a key role in the overall programme. Rather than waiting until the end of the research and influencing phases, COPLA has already begun a processes of lessons identification and sharing among the partners.
Throughout the month of March, CIPPEC wrote the first lessons learned report that the organizations involved have recognized as such. For each associate we raise - in general lines - which is the target of his investigations; we contextualized the social, economic and political situation in which they are immersed; in turn, we emphasize the characteristics of the methodologies used in this first phase; and, to complete the information about the process of investigation, we list the social, political and economic actors who are having participation in the processes faced by each of the associates. We detailed the lessons learned and the challenges and obstacles that they face to take forward the investigations. As a conclusion, we’ve incorporated those lessons that turn out to be common to all the associates of COPLA, in spite of being working in divergent political and social contexts and of possessing diverse organizational characteristics.