Tips on Collective Sensemaking - USAID (2018)

Defining how things are changing with local stakeholders and partners both helps programming to be more alert to changes in context and shifts ownership, enabling greater local leadership of the effort. This set of USAID tips focus on what it takes to do collective sense-making with local partners.

The tips are:

• Gather valuable data
• Be transparent and inclusive
• Let partners find patterns
• Embrace different answers or disagreement
• Make collective sense-making part of Pause and Reflect
• Link the sense-making process to understanding of the context