CGIAR-Climate-Impact-Platform

From planning to action: Launching the CGIAR Climate Community

As climate change continues to impact lives, livelihoods, and ecosystems across the globe, the CGIAR Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Platform is leading efforts to find solutions that truly matter. By uniting CGIAR’s research on climate adaptation and mitigation, the Platform ensures these initiatives achieve maximum visibility and impact where they are needed most. Earlier …

Digital Agri Hub (D4Ag)

D4Ag: Driving dialogue and knowledge exchange in digital agriculture

This post draws from an interview conducted by Dgroups Associate Jessica Ball with Giacomo Rambaldi, an experienced facilitator of online communities of practice. A long-time supporter of the Dgroups Foundation, Giacomo previously served on its Board while working with CTA. He is now one of the lead moderators of the D4Ag online community, a thriving …

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

Exploring use cases for online communities and groups

While development and humanitarian organizations tend to use similar online tools and platforms to collaborate, we tend to use them in different ways and for different purposes.  Exploring and sharing tips from these different uses was the focus of a recent Dgroups Foundation online partner experience exchange. The experience-sharing session on 24 February 2023 drew …

UN-REDD Forest Climate Solutions

Setting up a community space on forest solutions to the climate crisis

In November 2022 the Dgroups Foundation started to work with UN-REDD to help incubate and support a dedicated community space discussing forest solutions to the climate crisis. “UN-REDD is the flagship UN knowledge and advisory partnership on forests and climate to reduce forest emissions and enhance forest carbon stocks. It is the largest international provider …

CGIAR Gender platform

Scaling up of the CGIAR GENDER impact platform

In January 2020, the Dgroups Foundation setup and incubated an information sharing and discussion space to support the work of theCGIAR GENDER impact platform that synthesises and amplifies research, fills gaps, builds capacity and sets directions to enable CGIAR to have maximum impact on gender equality, opportunities for youth and social inclusion in agriculture and …

Incubating a Fair Digital Finance Accelerator online community

The Fair Digital Finance Accelerator is a three-year consumer advocacy project hosted by Consumers International in collaboration with consumer associations in Low- and Middle-Income countries. The Dgroups Foundation is working with the Fair Digital Finance Accelerator to help establish an online community of consumer associations in Low- and Middle-Income countries and a platform for collaborative …

Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action

Setting up a community of practice for food security early action

In 2022, the Jameel Observatory partnered with the Dgroups Foundation to set up an online community space.  The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action is an international partnership led by the University of Edinburgh collaborating with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Save the Children, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and …

Neil Pakenham-Walsh at K4D Conference, Geneva, April 2017

Dgroups at the Knowledge for Development (K4D) Conference

Dgroups was presented as an example of best practice at the Knowledge for Development Conference in Geneva, 3-4 April 2017. Neil Pakenham-Walsh, chair of the Dgroups foundation and founder of HIFA (Healthcare Information for All: five Dgroups with >16,000 members interacting in 3 languages) presented Dgroups to a diverse audience of more than 200 development …