Our work is based on the action-learning cycle, learning with our partners from experience in Africa, seeing how to strengthen practice, applying it, and learning from that experience. The adjacent diagram shows our action learning cycle. Khanya-aicdd’s key role is in the centre of the cycle, facilitating processes of learning and change. The importance of this role becomes clearer as our work evolves and need for facilitation of meaningful change processes becomes apparent.

We use facilitation and consultancy in much of our work – and all activities have to consider upscaling issues, including building coalitions for change. We try and make all our work have an action learning dimension and build skill sets of staff and partners to facilitate effective action-learning processes. We apply the action learning approach to the following practice areas.

We apply the action learning approach to the following practice areas:

• Agriculture, Natural Resources & Food security
• Local Economic Development
• Rethinking Governance
• Development planning
• Community- based Management