Praxis Note 66. MEKANIC: Making sense of progress in the defence and security sector – implementing lessons learned

This paper describes the monitoring, evaluation, and most importantly learning methodology that Transparency International UK has developed for its defence and security programme, giving examples of the impact it has had.

MEKANIC became the central meeting event and strategic learning tool of their programme. The combination of serious, in-depth discussion of the content of learning and experiencing – kept honest and stimulated by the presence of outsiders – and the strategy-making that comes out of these discussions, proved to be immensely creative.