Some of the pertinent issues that arose from the evaluation were:

• Dissatisfaction with the coordination at the continental level.
• The Workers’ College, which increasingly became stretched having to run their own programmes in addition to the coordination and facilitation of ALEN.
• The lack of proper hand-over, take-over processes, or their inadequacies, resulted in a new crop of national coordinators emerging that was not well versed in the ALEN programme and its procedures. Clearly, in all countries visited, the impression emerged that the national coordinators and the Workers’ College were not on the same page.
  However, as pointed out, the positive aspects of ALEN far outweighed the emerging challenges, which were believed, could be rectified.
  In view of this, it was therefore concluded that the program should be relaunched and continued.
• The notion of a “network” had to be revitalised. It was decided that it should be clear that there can only be one type of members which are national trade union centres that are committed to undertake ALEN activities. It should be a network whose members are regularly informed about ALEN developments in other countries. In addition, it ought to be a network which frequently exchanges information amongst its members and extends support to those members in need. Such a network should not depend on expensive continental gatherings that yield impressive minutes only. If there are dedicated members, such a network can be maintained using modern information technology.
• A genuine culture of communication needs to be resuscitated. Participating national centres should contribute to such a revamped culture by providing information in time about their own progress and achievements.
• Whereas the ten-session package was highly commended, its availability left a lot to be desired. If grass roots education was to be taken seriously, every effort should be undertaken by ALEN to make this package available in every country of the network in more than sufficient quantities.
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