Over the second and third in-person meetings (hosted in Washington DC by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank in May, 2019, and by UNICEF in Florence in October, 2019) and through numerous online engagements in between meetings, the MDLP has expanded to include Wellcome Trust and IFAD in 2020.

Members have shared a wide range of knowledge management and organisational learning processes and lessons, and have supported each other in numerous peer assists around common organizational learning practices and challenges -- such as how to message the case for investment in OL, how to intentionally capture and share learning as part of a project management cycle and how to incentivize a learning culture in a development organisation.

In its Spring 2019 meeting in Washington, D.C., members also began plans to document concrete cases, contribute to an evidence base on the value of OL, and explore other options for collaborating, such as establishing an award programme, mapping excellence in OL, and other possible collaborations.

At the Fall 2019 meeting in Florence, members also agreed to open webinars to participants across our organizations, and reaffirmed the intention, when the MDLP convenes in Rome, hosted by IFAD, in the Spring of 2020, to explore broadening its member organisations (and thereby, its body of knowledge and experience) as it matures as a coalition focused on organisational learning to improve development.

The group continued to meet virtually during the COVID pandemic, producing the book ‘Return on Knowledge’ and widening its engagement through joint webinars with other online groups, such as KM4Dev.
In 2023, the MDLP is applying KM and OL experience in support of a USAID-funded focus on Covid Learning.

MDLP is actively seeking to enlarge its membership over the coming year.