PD Foundations · Vol. III · Appendix H
After-action review template
Snapshot of the April 2024 edition · U.S. Department of State (R/PPR) · Public domain · Unabridged · State's internal edition is authoritative over this copy
Contents
| AAR for (initiative/activity, date): |
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| Participants in AAR: |
| Background resources/links |
| After-action review : What did we do and what did we learn? |
| 1. What did we expect to happen? |
| 2. What actually happened? |
| 3. What caused the difference between 1 and 2? |
| Action plan: What are we going to do? |
| 4. Based on what worked and what didn’t work, what will we do the same or differently the next time? |
| Things to keep doing: Things to change for next time: |
| 5. What do we need to do in the short-term? (who? what? when?) |
| 6. What should we consider doing in the medium-term? (who? what? when?) |
| 7. What should we consider not doing? (and why not?) |