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Role of Monitoring in Sustaining Communities of Practice
Abstract
In today's rapidly evolving educational landscape, the importance of sustaining communities of practice is pivotal in driving social change through continuous acquisition and application of knowledge. As development interventions increasingly aim at fostering behavioral changes, the role of innovative open education becomes crucial. Monitoring of these changes helps in sustaining learning and practice to make significant improvements in people’s lives. This paper is based on the Commonwealth of Learning’s Empowering Women and Girls project, implemented in five countries and involving diverse communities. The paper will explore how monitoring of changes strengthens the communities with a shared interest of working on similar issues, building relationships that enable them to learn from each other and developing a shared practice in addressing those problems. It further shows how the community report card, as a grass-root accountability tool, monitors the progress in application of learning into practice. Using the data from outcome monitoring study, the paper argues for institutionalising the monitoring of these gender-focused communities of practice in sustaining learning and practice to advance gender equality. Its sustainability and scalability demand recognition of community resilience and embracing collaborative learning and addressing the gender gap and digital divide to accessing open and distance learning.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Sustaining Communities of Learning and Practice in Innovative Open Education
Paper ID: 3632
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Bangladesh, Malawi, Mozambique, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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Africa, Asia
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)