The Learning Alliance approach addresses a number of challenges that research and development projects typically face, including: ensuring the uptake of research findings, bringing innovation to scale, and dealing with complexity.
This latter is addressed by moving from an overly narrow focus on one aspect of a problem in isolation, towards one that looks at the problem as an integrated whole and adopts a holistic approach to solving it.
Under the approach, stakeholders are organised into platforms at key institutional levels, and facilitated in working together to understand the problem, to identify possible solutions, to learn and innovate and, and finally to scale-up. These interlinked platforms at different levels are together referred to as “Learning Alliance”.