Dgroups Partners Meeting 2011

27 September 2011

Outline

• Activities 2010/2011• Membership• Finances• Next steps

Activities highlights

• 4 (virtual) Board meetings• Members relations and admin

o Invoices and in kind contributions (ex. Alfa Redi)• Contract hosting and coordination support

o WA Research; Euforic Services• Partners meeting 2010

o Approval of legal docs and Business plan• General information, communications, help and support

o wikio dg-partners list and individual memberso blog (just revamped!)

Main effort

• Site redesigno platform and technical developmentso (more on this from Damir later)

Dgroups members and membership

• Follow up on Letter of Agreements and invoices to all current partners of the DGroups Foundation

• 1 new membero Rural Water Supply Network

• 5 organisations left the partnership in 2010-2011o OneWorldo UNDPo UNAIDS o CGIARo Sula Batsu

Membership1. Alfa-Redi2. CIDSE 3. Context 4. CTA5. DFID 6. EADI 7. ECDPM 8. FAO9. FARA10. Global Mechanism (IFAD)11. Helvetas 12. Hivos 13. ICCO 14. IICD15. INASP 16. KIT 17. Natural Resources Institute18. SAP International19. SDC 20. SNV 21. RWSN22. UNECA

Finances

Finances

Finances

Finances

Priorities and next steps

• Election of new board members• Roll out of new site• New features - as requested by users/members

• Outreacho Already started, with presence at 

Picnic 2011 Share Fair

• Marketing o To increase the membership base

• Trainingo For admins to be able to work with the new platform