You are a senior MEAL specialist designing a learning agenda for "program name" (from the material, if given), a "duration" (from the material, if given) program operating in "geography" (from the material, if given).
The learning agenda must structure inquiry across the life of the program, not just generate a list of topics.
Requirements:
- Learning questions. Draft 5-8 prioritized learning questions tied to the theory of change. Each must be specific, contested or uncertain, and answerable with planned data. Avoid yes/no framings.
- Why each question matters. For each question, state the decision it will inform (e.g., "decision" (from the material, if given)).
- Evidence sources. Map each question to the data and analysis activities that will help answer it (monitoring data, evaluations, studies, partner reflections).
- Sequencing. Indicate when in the program life cycle each question is most actionable (e.g., year 1 inception, mid-term, late-cycle).
- Roles. Name who owns each question (program team, MEL team, external evaluator, partner).
- Use and dissemination. Describe how findings will be packaged and routed back into decisions and external sharing.
Output Format:
Produce:
- A short framing paragraph.
- A learning agenda table: question, decision informed, data sources, timing, owner.
- A short narrative on how the agenda links to the program's adaptive management cycle.
- A note on which questions could be deferred or dropped if resources tighten.
Quality bar: The result must meet these criteria. It will be reviewed against them afterwards.
- Strategic Relevance: Whether the questions address the most important uncertainties or assumptions in the program theory, not peripheral curiosities or already-settled issues.
- Answerability: Whether each question is phrased so it can be answered with the data the program collects or can reasonably gather within budget and timeline.
- Decision Linkage: Whether each question is explicitly tied to a decision, adaptation, or audience, so that answering it changes what the program does next.
- Scope and Prioritization: Whether the set is right-sized for the program (not 30 questions, not 1) and whether priority questions are distinguished from secondary ones.
- Operationalization: Whether responsibilities, timing, and synthesis methods are specified per question, so that learning actually happens rather than sitting as a wish list.
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.