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Create from my documents: Generate a Learning Agenda

Create from my documents: Generate a Learning Agenda: Your prompt

Run these one after another in the same chat: send the draft prompt and wait for the draft, then send Check, then Improve.

Writes the draft, with the criteria as the bar it must meet.

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:

  1. 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.
  2. Why each question matters. For each question, state the decision it will inform (e.g., "decision" (from the material, if given)).
  3. Evidence sources. Map each question to the data and analysis activities that will help answer it (monitoring data, evaluations, studies, partner reflections).
  4. Sequencing. Indicate when in the program life cycle each question is most actionable (e.g., year 1 inception, mid-term, late-cycle).
  5. Roles. Name who owns each question (program team, MEL team, external evaluator, partner).
  6. Use and dissemination. Describe how findings will be packaged and routed back into decisions and external sharing.

Output Format:

Produce:

  1. A short framing paragraph.
  2. A learning agenda table: question, decision informed, data sources, timing, owner.
  3. A short narrative on how the agenda links to the program's adaptive management cycle.
  4. 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.

Prompt · Create a Document · about 401 words

Score the learning questions section of a MEL plan for strategic relevance, answerability, and decision-linkage.

You'll Need

Your Learning agenda or learning questions section of a MEL plan

You Get Back

A first draft built from your documents

Criteria