The benefits of the linking & learning approach are:
- Linking & Learning reduces duplication of efforts and leads to greater efficiency
- Linking & Learning reduces competition and enhances cooperation. It results in greater sharing of knowledge, skills, resources and information among organisations
- Linking & Learning results in better quality planning and implementation of programmes because each organisation contributes its strengths to the process
- Linking & Learning improves the quality of work in the sector. Because the approach is built on a foundation of continual reflection, lessons learned along the way are incorporated into the work of individual partners and into the work of the project on an on-going basis
- Linking & Learning builds a culture of support for one another as partners in which each partner is willing to help build the capacity of others
- Linking & Learning creates a platform for common advocacy as partner organisations come to a shared understanding of the key issues in the sector
- Linking & Learning leads to greater innovation as partners are able to come up with new and better ideas because they are thinking together
- Linking & Learning leads to greater sustainability
In the short and practical brochure Travel guide to Linking & Learning the benefits of the Linking & learning approach are further explained, as well as the key elements to make the approach work.
