First Council Meeting Councillors Make Commitments
GAN-Net's Global Council met for the first time in Berlin in October. The meeting clarified the role of the Council, refined the concept of what being a GAN involves, focused priorities, and produced individual commitments by Councillors to support GAN-Net.
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GAN Global Leaders Meeting
The bi-annual Global leaders meeting focused on sharing lessons for integrating business actors more effectively in the work of GANs, and initiating a major initiative engaging a range of funders on the value generated by GANs in the world.
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What is a GAN?: First Strategies, then Structures
One product of the three November Community of Practice (CoP) meetings is a further clarification that GANs are distinguished by their common strategic orientations rather than a set of similar structures.
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ComCoP: Integrating Web 2.0
The burgeoning field of web communication technologies was selected as the focus of the second meeting of GAN communications people, hosted by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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SSGCoP: Tackling GAN Structures
Development stages of GANs, the concept of "membership" and new mapping tools featured at the second Strategy-Structure-Governance Community of Practice meeting in November.
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ICoP: To Identify Value, Increase Learning and Improve Accountability
By all accounts, the Impacts Community of Practice is a resounding success. David Bonbright, Executive Director of Keystone and Co-Lead Steward of ICoP, clearly stated that the goals of ICoP "are to substantially empower GANs to identify the tremendous value they are generating in the world, increase their ability to learn from their impact evaluations, and improve their accountability mechanisms to their wide range of constituencies."
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K&LCoP: Launch of Knowledge and Learning CoP
How do GANs create effective learning processes and routines to build the needed new knowledge and competencies? How can GANs record and communicate effectively across very different language and cultural groups? How can concepts like "learning organization" and "community of practice" be applied to GANs? These are the type of questions behind the launch of K&LCoP, co-sponsored by the Global Knowledge Partnership in Kuala Lumpur in December.
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ISEAL: An Important GAN-World Actor
Since the turn of the millennium, GANs with certification as a key strategy have been advancing their collective interests through the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling (ISEAL) Alliance.
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Letter from the Chair
Innovating Global Public Goods Production
Steadily, methodically and effectively, GAN-Net is helping to shape global governance in the 21st century.
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