Dgroups Partners Meeting 2017

30 November 2017

Meeting overview

Dgroups case study - 30’

Using Dgroups at RWSN -

Sean Furey and Saskia

Harmsen

Intro & Business meeting - 60’

About Dgroups

Dgroups nine work areas:

Progress 2017

Plans for 2018

Technical developments - 30’

Latest and future

platform developments -

Damir Simunic and Joe

Canda (WA-Research)

About the meeting room

About the meeting room

Ground rules● Keep the allocated time - for presentations and discussions

● Be brief - in comments and questions

● Mute/unmute your mic

● Raise hand - to ask for the floor

● Use chat - to comment or ask questions during presentations

An introduction to Dgroups

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Neil Pakenham-Walsh (chair)

Full partners

Associate Partners:1. Access Agriculture

2. Alfa Redi

3. cinfo

4. Euforic Services

5. Ricardo Wilson-Grau

Consultoria em Gestão

Empresarial Ltda

6. Savana Signature

7. The Broker Online

Project Partners:1. Personas Facilitadoras

PT

2. Charter for Change

Dgroups vision: “A world where every person is able to contribute to dialogue and decision-making for international development and social justice”

Dgroups Partnership -Governance and management

Dgroups Board - entrusted with the management of

the Foundation

Participants Council - convened annually at the

Annual Meeting of Members, comprises Dgroups

Full Partners

Euforic Services - Pier Andrea is contracted for

communications and support to the Board

Dgroups BoardBenjamin Abugri (FARA)

Adrian Bannister (IDS)

Krishan Bheenick (CTA) TreasurerHapee de Groot (Ind [prev. Hivos])

Sean Furey (RWSN)

Saskia Harmsen (Ind [prev. IICD])

Neil Pakenham-Walsh (repr. INASP)

Karima Wardak (UNCDF, observer)

Rob Witte (Ind [prev ICCO])

Pier Andrea Pirani (Euforic Services, comms support)

Objectives/Progress 2017 &

Plans 2018

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Work area 1: Strengthening the partnership -Neil Pakenham-Walsh

Objectives/Progress 2017

1. Launch the Dgroups Directory/Not yet

functional

Plans for 2018

1. Carry forward

Work area 2: Platform improvements -Saskia HarmsenObjectives/Progress 2017

1. Maintain [redesign] and Functionality

spreadsheet / Achieved

2. Get Search function working/Not achieved

3. Prepare guidance on APIs for Partners/Not

achieved

Plans for 2018

1. 2-monthly review meetings with WA-Research

2. Dgroups Functionality Improvement tracking

sheet

3. C/F Search function

4. C/F Guidance on APIs

5. Public view

Work area 3: Service reliability -Hapee de GrootObjectives/Progress 2017

1. Maintain service reliability at or very

near to 100% / No downtime reported

in 2017

Plans for 2018

1. Maintain at or very near to 100%

Work area 4: Users’ support - Pier Andrea PiraniObjectives/Progress 2017

1. Develop and provide at least one

Dgroups educational video / In

progress, to be available by end of the

year

Plans for 2018

1. Develop and provide two Dgroups

educational videos

Work area 5: Engaging current partners -Pier Andrea PiraniObjectives/Progress 2017

1. Continue to have 1-to-1 conversations with

members / Achieved 1-to-1 exchanges with 16 of

25 full members

2. Develop survey and interview series to

assess views of Partners re Dgroups and

future development of the Partnership / On

hold

Plans for 2018

1. Develop survey and interview series

1. Promote [DG-Partners] as discussion space

(currently used mainly for announcements)

Work area 6: Marketing & outreach -Benjamin Abugri

Objectives/Progress 2017

1. Encourage all Dgroups Partners to display

Dgroups logo / Done - three Dgroups partners display logo

2. Two presentations on Dgroups / K4D, Geneva (April); ZEF, Bonn (July)

Plans for 2018

1. Increase number of partners displaying

Dgroups logo

2. At least 2 presentations on Dgroups

Work area 7: Governance & admin -Neil Pakenham-WalshObjectives/Progress 2017

Strengthen board, including gender and

geographical balance / New board member: Benjamin Abugri, FARA

Board overview:

● Gender balance - M:F 7:2

● Partner representation: three independents

● Lacking representation from FAO, DFID, SDC,

UNISDR and others

Plans for 2018

Strengthen the board:

● Gender balance

● Partner representation

Work area 8: Finance - Krishan Bheenick

Total Income 2016 104,554 Euro

Total Expenditure 2016 105,992 Euro

Results in 2016 -1,438 Euro

Projected income 2017 80,000 Euro (around 16 Full Partners)

Projected expenditure 2017 80,000 Euro (approximate)

Work area 8: Finance - Krishan Bheenick

Comments/Priorities for 2018

1. Maintain current Full Partners and attract more (one or two at least)

2. Marketing to associate and project partners

3. Integration of Dgroups into websites (API) for more visibility

Work area 9: M&E - Sean Furey

Objectives/Progress 2017

1. Improve availability/usefulness of Dgroups

statistics (overall & individual groups) / Stats

menu working

2. Develop 3 case studies to demonstrate

benefits of Dgroups membership / One case

study (RWSN)

3. Share 1 example of a Dgroups user survey

and results / RWSN member survey shared -

Dgroups compares favourably to other

RWSN online platforms

Plans for 2018

1. Continue to improve availability/usefulness

2. At least two new case studies (FARA, HIFA,

other?)

3. Other?

Time for discussion

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