GAN Leaders Forming GAN-Net Council
Leaders from Global Action Networks and other front-line global organizations are coming together to form GAN-Nets first Council. The move is part of makeover of GAN-Nets governance structure that is designed to enhance its accountability and responsiveness.
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Allen White: GAN-Net Board Chair
At its October meeting the GAN-Net Board elected Allen White to be Chair. In the late 1990s Allen became a co-founder of the Global Reporting Initiative, serving as GRI's Director for three years and then Acting Chief Executive. As such, he managed initial development of the Secretariat and played a critical role in GRI's strategic planning. He has now returned to the Tellus Institute in Boston to take up his pre-GRI post as Vice President and Senior Fellow.
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Tackling GANs' Communications Challenges
Two types of challenges facing GANs with respect to communications. One can be characterized as the "technology" challenge and the other as the human challenge. To respond to these challenges GAN-Net, The Marc Lindenberg Center, and the Global Water Partnership are co-sponsoring a meeting in Stockholm March 8-9 to form an on-going community of practice for GANs.
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GANs in Guatemala: Tying the Global and Local
After a successful meeting last March, Phase II in a GAN-Net and CARE-Guatemala is being launched. The project designed to investigate the potential for GANs to work collaboratively, their ability to link global-to-local and the potential role of local government.
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Measuring GANs Impact: A new initiative
Creating a robust impact measurement system is critical to GANs both for internal planning, managing and resources prioritization, and for describing successes and challenges. GAN leaders have identified measuring impact as the top issue to address. Funding agencies likewise see developing of such systems as critical. February 23-24 GAN-Net will bring together people from GANs, funders and measurement experts to begin the task of creating a robust measurement system.
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Developing GANs' Strategy-Structure-Governance
Countdown 2010, a new GAN, will be the focus of attention at a meeting designed to create an on-going community of practice for GANs to answer questions about how they can most effectively organize themselves. Participants will advance a new stage in organizational knowledge where partnership is shifting to network, closed finite numbers of participants is shifting to open infinite participation, the concepts of membership-representation-participation are becoming more fluid, and global-local roles and relationships more complex.
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Leadership in GANs: New skills needed
"Are the basic fundamentals for sound leadership the same and we are just responding to a different world, or are the fundamentals shifting?" That is the question at the heart of a new article by systems and management guru Peter Senge after he reviews the challenges facing a GAN, the Sustainable Food Lab.
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