Collaborative Learning Priorities for Next Quarter January 1 – March 31, 2013

3. Collaborative Learning

The collaborative learning element of the SUCCESS extension focuses on cross-portfolio learning activities. In Years 6 through 8, the learning team developed a document called “Enterprise Strategies for Coastal and Marine Conservation: A Review of Best Practices and Lessons Learned”. The review is based on the livelihoods experience and lessons learned from field site activities that were part of the first five years of SUCCESS and from livelihoods experience from other development projects. In addition to the livelihoods learning agenda, a programming guide for fisheries and aquaculture was drafted in Year 6 and both the guide and review will be disseminated and incorporated into various workshops and training events in Year 9. The final learning activity is to take what has been learned and captured in the Livelihoods Review and Fisheries and Aquaculture Guide and strategically announce and promote them more aggressively in order to achieve the maximum visibility e.g., have them appear in the top 10 on a Google search and ensure they have the widest use by international peer groups e.g. WWF, CI, and CARE. We have also started planning for other end-of-Project legacy products and events that capture what we have learned across the larger SUCCESS portfolio —not limited to livelihoods and fisheries, but also including climate change adaptation, capacity buildingcertification and other aspects of our early SUCCESS field activities Phase I from 2004-2009. Perhaps our most reflective legacy initiative will be to hold an event andor produce a document that is a 25-year retrospective on USAID’s investments in coastal and marine programs—the summary of that investment, its impacts, and how it has set the groundwork for addressing some of the most critical challenges facing our coasts in the years ahead. While the actual event or publication will be finalized in the last year of SUCCESS, planning will begin in Year 8. Other learninglegacy products include position paperscase studies that capture coastal nation efforts to incorporation climate change adaptation into sector-specific and overarching national plans and strategies.

3.1 Report Period Accomplishments July 1—December 31, 2012