Dgroups Foundation - CoP engagement & planning guide

Practical steps for engaging communities of practice

There are numerous resources and guidance available online on Community of Practice (CoP) engagement planning.  For instance, the World Bank’s Community of Practice Toolkit offers practical tools for designing, developing, and managing impactful CoPs. This resource includes articles, worksheets, templates, and other materials to support community leaders.  Similarly, USAID’s Guide on Supporting Communities of Practice …

2023 Dgroups partners-meeting

Online collaboration use cases in-depth – a talk show

As part of a recent virtual discussion around online collaboration use cases, Saskia Harmsen hosted a talk show in which five Dgroups Foundation partners introduced their groups as examples of different collaboration use cases encountered online. IFAD Innovation Network Gladys Morales presented the IFAD innovation network as an example of using online groups to discuss an issue in …

Dgroups Briefing - More effective online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in international development

Brief summarises lessons for more effective online collaboration, dialogue, and interaction in international development

Last year, as the entire development community moved online, the Dgroups Foundation teamed up with partners to take stock of good practices in facilitating and sustaining online and virtual communities and interactions. This included a knowledge café in May that identified four critical success factors for online collaboration, a KM4Dev@20 workshop in July, an e-conference …