2025 in review: Dgroups Foundation highlights
In 2025, at the Dgroups Foundation, we continued to focus on how online collaboration and knowledge sharing can better support people working on complex development, humanitarian, and social justice challenges. The posts published throughout the year document this work, combining reflection with hands-on support and shared learning across communities and partners. Starting with how people …
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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Collaborating across disciplines: Integrating gender into livestock modelling
What happens when you bring together gender researchers and livestock modellers to work on a collaborative ‘solutions group’ project? In the second half of 2025, the Dgroups Foundation worked with the SEBI-Livestock teamto facilitate an LD4D Solutions Group on Gender Considerations in Livestock Modeling. The goal was simple but ambitious: to create the conditions for …
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Supporting knowledge exchange for the NAgDI initiative
The National Agricultural Data Infrastructure (NAgDI) initiative is a multi-country effort led by the Commonwealth Secretariat under the Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda for Trade and Investment (CCA). It aims to help countries strengthen, connect, and coordinate agricultural data systems so that reliable, interoperable information supports better policy and investment decisions, improves market transparency, and meets international …
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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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