ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some key elements of an emerging conceptual framework for sustainable development that arises out of the experience of practitioners enabling collective learning. The idea of enabling a collective learning process for development therefore welcomes and requires a diversity of thought and perspective. The chapter provides ideas and inspiration to donors and development practitioners as an antidote and as encouragement to those who wish to introduce collective learning processes within their organizations and among their partners. Organizations receiving funding from donors, or grantees, whether in the public, private or NGO sectors, are ultimately more responsible to the donors who fund them than to the farmers they are supposedly serving. The chapter outlines some of the organizational barriers that produce inadequate feedback systems that essentially undermine accountability and transparency. It presents technological and organizational innovations that can produce new dynamics resulting from collective learning that significantly change feedback mechanisms for the better.
