GAN-Net Receives $500,000 Commitments
A foundation has committed $500,000 for the next year to strengthen GANs. These are the initial commitments towards a five-year plan to vastly expand GAN-Net activities. The plan is the product of five years of experimentation and learning with GANs to understand their needs and how to meet them. The strategy entails:
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Building GANs' Competencies
Through its work with GANs, GAN-Net has identified eight key competencies that GANs must develop to realize optimal effectiveness. One of these has already been a focus of GAN-Net over the past 18 months, and three of them will be the focus of GAN-Net's work over the next year.

For each of the competencies GAN-Net is initiating work with other organizations' global communities of practice. The first of these was the Generative Dialogue Project (GDP), founded in 2004, which focuses on the large-scale systemic change competencies. In this case "large" refers to global and to the big shifts needed to address sustainability and other challenges. The UNDP, Synergos Institute, the Society for Organizational Learning, Generon Consulting, and a number of other organizations are co-founders along with GAN-Net.
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GAN Leaders Look into the Future
What might the role of GANs be 15 years from now? That was the focus of a year-long project that brought together the lead staff members from a dozen GANs. The project findings were summarized in a report to USAID, which co-sponsored the project with the Metanoia Fund.

The question was the focus of a project that engaged the most senior staff person in 10 GANs. Over the year, GAN leaders met twice. As well, there were seven teleconferences led by them around key development challenges: measuring impact, working with governments and inter-governmental organizations, change strategies, and member accreditation.
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Supporting a New GAN's Emergence
GAN-Net is helping a new GAN to emerge that marries the fields of disaster relief, human security, and sustainable development. In conjunction with leaders in the fields, GAN-Net is working to develop PHREE-Way-Partnership for Humanitarian and Risk Education Expansion. It is a global action learning network of organizations working together to expand education and strengthen capacity for disaster risk reduction and for humanitarian action towards sustainable development and human security.
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Creating Collaboration Among GANs
At a meeting of eight GANs plus CARE in Guatemala participants developed bi-lateral, collective regional, and group-capacity development goals. The meeting included local and regional representatives from the Forest Stewardship Council, IUCN, the Youth Employment Summit Campaign, Transparency International, the Sustainable Food Lab, the Microcredit Summit Campaign, Social Accountability International. and The Access Initiative/PP10.
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