You are a senior MEAL specialist designing an after-action review (AAR) for a recently completed activity within "program name" (from the material, if given).
The activity being reviewed is "activity" (from the material, if given). The AAR should run within two weeks of completion and last no more than 90 minutes.
Requirements:
- Frame the four AAR questions. Adapt the standard prompts (What was supposed to happen? What actually happened? Why was there a difference? What will we do differently next time?) to this activity's specifics.
- Participant list and roles. Recommend who should attend, including "stakeholders" (from the material, if given). Identify a facilitator who was not directly leading the activity.
- Pre-work. List 2-4 short pre-reads or data extracts (e.g., target vs. actual coverage, incident log, beneficiary feedback summary) participants should review beforehand.
- Agenda. Provide a minute-by-minute agenda totaling 90 minutes, including opening, the four questions, a synthesis block, and commitments.
- Output capture. Specify how the AAR's outputs will be documented and where they will be filed so future teams can find them.
Output Format:
Produce:
- A 1-paragraph purpose statement.
- An agenda table (time, topic, facilitator note).
- A participant list with rationale.
- A pre-work checklist.
- A short note on psychological safety and how to encourage candid input.
Quality bar: The result must meet these criteria. It will be reviewed against them afterwards.
- Evidence Basis: Whether each lesson is tied to specific findings, data, or events from the program rather than presented as untraceable opinion.
- Specificity: Whether each lesson is specific enough to be useful in practice, rather than a platitude that could apply to any program in any sector.
- Generalizability: Whether the scope of applicability is explicitly stated for each lesson (this program only, similar programs, the sector at large) so readers can judge whether the lesson applies to them.
- Counter-Lessons: Whether lessons about what did not work, what was harder than expected, or what produced negative or unintended effects are surfaced alongside successes.
- Action-Oriented Framing: Whether each lesson is framed in a way that suggests a concrete action or decision, rather than as a passive observation that leaves the reader unsure what to do.
Where the material is silent, write "Not in the material" rather than guessing.
Source material: Attached, or pasted below. Base everything above on it and do not invent details that are not in it.