An evolutionary approach to facilitating organisational learning: an experiment by the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh

A participatory monitoring system was devised in the course of developing an evolutionary perspective on learning within organisations and in co-operation with the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB). In this approach, indicators are abandoned: instead the method focuses on the identification of significant change as perceived and interpreted by the various participants. It relies on the use of qualitative information. It extracts meaning out of events that have taken place rather than making assumptions about future events. The system has been valuable to CCDB and has been expanded since its first conception.