Collaboration Futures: Reflections from the Dgroups Foundation Knowledge and Learning Exchange 2025
In late 2025, the Dgroups Foundation hosted a virtual Knowledge and Learning Exchange with practitioners to reflect on online collaboration, knowledge sharing, and community practice. The session was co-hosted by Dgroups Foundation Associates Jessica Ball and Pier Andrea Pirani, with contributions from Rocío Sanz, Davide Piga, Simon Hearn, and Ivan Piseta, alongside participants joining from …
Updated Dgroups Foundation products and activity portfolio
Following our recent update on the Dgroups Foundation’s Purpose, Mission, and Vision, this post looks more closely at how we put those commitments into practice. The Dgroups Foundation supports more inclusive, effective, and sustainable collaboration in development, humanitarian, and social justice work. We help partners establish and strengthen online communities, knowledge-sharing platforms, learning processes, and …
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Refined Dgroups Foundation’s purpose, mission, and vision
As the Dgroups Foundation continues to evolve, we’ve taken time to reflect on what drives our work and where we want to go next. This process has helped us clarify and sharpen our Purpose, Mission, and Vision – not as a rebranding exercise, but as a reaffirmation of what the Foundation stands for and how …
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Welcoming OMLC as a new partner
The Outcome Mapping Learning Community (OMLC) recently became a Dgroups Foundation partner. OMLC is a long-standing global network advancing the practice of Outcome Mapping – helping practitioners explore behavioural change, systems contributions, and learning in complex settings. This year, we are supporting their transition to a groups.io-based community space, aiming to reinforce peer exchange and …
From data collection to shared learning: MEL systems that bridge research and practice
Our work on MEL tools and approaches with several IDRC research for development programmes was featured in a presentation at the KM Triversary Forum on “From Data Collection to Shared Learning: Designing MEL Systems that Serve Both Research and Practice.” The session explored how Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) systems can move beyond compliance and …
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Dgroups Foundation Knowledge and Learning Exchange 2025 – Collaboration Futures: Strengthening online communities and practices
The Dgroups Foundation Knowledge and Learning Exchange 2025 will take place online on Thursday 20 November from 14:00 to 15:30 CET (13:00-14:30 UTC). This 90-minute interactive session will bring together online facilitators, knowledge managers, and practitioners from across international development, humanitarian, and social justice networks to explore how online collaboration can become more effective and …
Bridging Communities and content: Dgroups Foundation at the KM Triversary Forum
At the recent KM Triversary Forum (14-15 October 2025), we delivered a presentation together with IDRC colleagues on our experiences in building and supporting a KM and collaboration platform for the CLimate Adaptation and REsilience (CLARE) programme. The presentation, “Bridging Communities and Content: Integrated KM for Climate Research Collaboration”, showcased how the Dgroups Foundation supported …
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Supporting PARCEL as a new partner
Recently, PARCEL (Partner Capacity Enhancement in Logistics) became a Dgroups Foundation partners. The PARCEL 2.0 project is an inter-agency initiative funded by the European Union’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) to strengthen supply-chain and logistics capacities of local and national humanitarian actors. We are supporting the incubation of the …
Revamping the KM4Dev website
As part of activities to mark twenty-five years of the KM4Dev community, the Foundation is supporting efforts to revamp its website, introducing a cleaner design and easier navigation to make the wealth of resources and conversations more accessible to members and the wider knowledge management community. The new site will also strengthen integration between the …
How we collaborate online: Insights from a Dgroups Foundation survey
As digital collaboration continues to evolve, in late 2024, the Dgroups Foundation conducted a short online survey to better understand how professionals across the development and humanitarian sectors are engaging, sharing, and working together online. Here we summarize what we heard from the 43 respondents from a wide range of organizations – including INGOs, UN …
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