The INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster: The Global Alliance

Notes from meeting
Infrastructure Cluster
Friday May 18th, 2018

Participants

Lisa Hilmi (CORE)

Rafael Obregon (UNICEF)

Warren Feek

This meeting took the form of an initial discussion to identify some of the main Alliance infrastructure the issues that will need to be addressed in the short- and medium-term. The reference point was the direction provided by the consultation process and the interim group - see this link for those key, relevant extracts from the "Agreement to Cooperate" document. The main issues and points covered include: 

1. There would be short and medium goals/plan that we need to set.

2. The topic of a Strategic plan was brought up, with specific activities that link to the focus areas; This would be the short term plan and as things progress, a longer term plan could be developed

3. There was a brief discussion on ethics- which are different than the principles.

4. As part of the medium term goals there needs to be a discussion on the legality, bylaws, governance beyond the Steering Committee and 25 members, accountability mechanisms for goals that are set

5. Branding/Identity was discussed  briefly and that we could easily have consultations over an identity with a couple of options drawn up by a consultant prior to the HLPF

6. Resources and funding were discussed. Need to look at several options and models but there would need to be some initial funding for a “secretariat” for the daily operations.

7. There was a discussion on “minimum funding for the first year”

Action steps:

a. Develop a more extensive infrastructure principles document - will be the basis for the by-laws etc development (Warren)

b. Develop some initial, preliminary branding for HLPF (Warren and Lisa)

c. Develop a 2 year secretariat budget from Oct 1, 2018 (Warren)

d. Recruit additional Alliance participants to the Infrastucture cluster (Rafael)

Lisa, Rafael and Sue - Hi - following the last Infrastructure cluster meeting I was asked to develop the set of principles that would condition the fuller development of the Alliance Infrastructure. Draft follows for your comments - Warren

Infrastructure principles (draft)

Work will soon commence with the medium and long-term development of the infrastructure for the Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change - Building Informed and Engaged Societies. This will require decisions across the full range of participation, leadership, decision-making, rules and by-laws, funding, personnel and relationships with other organizations questions and themes. Some of these principles have already been negotiated, outlined and agreed through the process that formulated the Agreement to Cooperate. But more detail is required.

As a beginning to this process of laying out the foundation principles upon which the shape and details of the Global Alliance (GAfSBC-BIES) will be constructed, the following are proposed for discussion:

POSITIONING

1. GAfSBC-BIES is an umbrella process - it is designed to bring together a group of associations, networks and organizations that share sufficient common principles and goals that they wish to work together to address some commonly agreed priority issues.

2. GAfSBC-BIES will not compete with other associations, networks and organisations - it is designed to enhance and add value to the work of others not to compete with them by for example developing a separate knowledge base and network, submitting rival funding proposals or membership fee processes, and engaging in direct programming work.

COMMITMENT AND PARTICIPATION

3. The core document for the GAfSBC-BIES is the Agreement to Cooperate - all invited and participating organisations will be required to sign. This includes:

a.  Endorsement of the Vision of the Alliance – “Fully informed and engaged societies  working to achieve equity and realize their rights”

b.  Agreement with the Mission of the Alliance – “Advance the scale, quality, impact and sustainability of communication for development, media for development, social change and behavioral change strategies”.

c.  Commitment to work actively with the other organisations that are part of the Alliance to build its scale and influence on behalf of this field of work.
 

4. The maximum number of organisations to be part of the Alliance is 30 - this ensures a manageable process that requires a light organizational touch with good familiarity and close working relationships between the organizations involved.

5. At all times in the life of the GAfSBC-BIES there will be the following balance in the organizations that constitute the Alliance:

a.  50% of the individual organisations should be genuinely Southern developed and managed organisations.

b. A significant number of the networks and partnerships that exist for some of the sub-sectors in this field should be involved.

c. Balanced across the different strategic approaches in this field of work.

d. Balanced across the global regions.

e.  Balanced across development issues.

6.  The initial organizations, networks and associations to comprise the Alliance will be identified, agreed and invited by the interim group established and agreed at the New York consultation in June, 2017.

7.  Any additional or replacement organizations will need to be agreed by 75% of the Alliance organizations. 

8.     Commitment to participate for a minimum of two years - upon which there will be a review from all perspectives of the engagement in this agreement to cooperate.

 
DECISION-MAKING

9. All decisions by the GAfSBC-BIES require a 75% majority.

10. Active participation in the 11 Alliance conference calls that will take place once per month over the course of a year.

11. Attend and actively participate in the one in-person meeting of the Alliance that will be held in each calendar year.

 
12.  Significant participation in at least one of the working clusters within the Alliance that will be created to advance the agreed priorities.

13. The full Alliance will elect a Chairing organisation on an annual basis.

PROFILE and BRANDING

14.     The GAfSBC-BIS will have its own brand with logo, tag line, etc - for all substantive communications the names of the GAfSBC-BIS organisations will be included with links to     their web sites and the emails of their GAfSBC-BIES focal points.   

15.    Each of the organisations that comprise the GAfSBC-BIES will highlight the work of the Alliance as appropriate in their own major communication processes. 

RESOURCING

16. Keeping to the no-compete principle outlined above the organizations in the GAfSBC-BIS will work individually and collectively to identify opportunities to fund the work of the Alliance from sources that do not compete with the funding of the existing partnerships, networks and programmes in this field of work.

17.     This includes financial contributions from the participating organizations to the GAfSBC-BIES revenue requirements - they should not replace such contributions to existing partnerships or networks in this field of work.   

18.    Each participating organisation will consider contributing relevant non-financial capacities of their organisations that can be allocated as a contribution to the work of the GAfSBC-BIES.

DISPUTES

19. A sub-group of the Alliance will be elected to handle any disputes that arise.

20. They will recommend to the full Alliance the actions to take in relation any disputes they have considered. 

21. The full Alliance will make the final decisions.
  

Rafael and Lisa – Hi – hope you saw the Principles notes here with the file attachment. As promised also had a crack at a budget. Will keep this off the platform for now as it is very initial and very draft. Just too many variables in play. But please see attached for your comments and suggestions. Thanks – Warren

To: Global Alliance - INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster: Lisa Hilmi (CORE Group); Rafael Obregon (UNICEF); Patrick Cook (ISMA); Sue Goldstein (Soul City); Urvashi Gandhi (Breakthrough); Charita Bondanza (UNICEF - Administrative Support); Warren Feek (Secretariat - The Communication Initiative)

cc - Other Alliance contacts for information and coordination purposes. If you wish to join us please do. As Rafael has stressed previously we would welcome increased participation in this cluster. 

Hi - Hope that all are well. Below please find the AGENDA and CALL-IN numbers for the INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster meeting on Thursday, June 21st at 10am New York time. You will have received the online notification from Charita at UNICEF. The meeting will be chaired by Warren Feek.

AGENDA - INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster - Thursday, June 21st at 10am New York time (Call in numbers are repeated below.)

1. Review of notes from previous meeting on May 18, 2018 - see this link

Any changes required?

2. Review and advancement of the development of the organizing principles outline.

Please review the Draft Principles statement at this link

Please access and review the comment, critique and suggestions from Lisa Hilmi at this link

Next steps?

3. Review and advancement of the initial Alliance budget

The initial budget developed by Warren can be reviewed at this link - please see and open the attachment

Lisa reviewed that budget - please see her comments and budget suggestions (attachment) at this link

Next steps?

4. Initial discussion on possible road map and implementation plan

Please see the initial thoughts outlined by Lisa for our review at this link

Rafael added some comments at this link

5. Future Meeting Pattern

10 am New York tme on the Thursday of the 3rd full week in each month - July 19th, August 23rd, September 20th, October 25th, November 22nd, December 20th, etc. UNICEF will send recurring notifications for your calendars.

CALL-IN NUMBERS

JOIN SKYPE MEETING
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Join by phone
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Conference ID: 21846684

NOTES: Infrastructure Cluster meeting - June 21st 2018 at 10am New York Time

Participants: Rafael Obregon (UNICEF), Lisa Hilmi (CORE Group), Sue Goldstein (Soul City)

1. Rafael added an agenda item related to other people and organisations joining the Infrastructure cluster. It was agreed that there would be a general dicussion on this at the next full Alliance meeting.

2. The notes from the previous meeting were reviewed - there were no amendments or corrections.

3. PRINCIPLES:

Related to the statement of core principles that would be the basis for developing the detailed by-laws and other organisational elements of the Alliance infrastructure.

a. It was agreed that Warren would take his and Lisa’s ideas on the key principles and combine them into one consolidated document for review by the full Alliance.

b. Lisa agreed to share the CORE Group by-laws in case helpful. She outlined the 5 main sections of those by-laws that cover issues such as: who is a member; the meetings process; how the Board of Directors is constituted; the status of employees; conflicts of interest and ethics.

c. Rafael recommended that perhaps the best way to develop a set of by-laws derived from the principles would be to bring in an outside consultant.

d. If going to directly receive finds then need a set of meaty bylaws.

4. OVERALL ORGANISATION POSITIONING

There was a discussion on the overall legal positioning of the Alliance as that would affect the nature of any by-laws etc. This was triggered by a consideration of the process for receiving funds, should that happen. At that stage all sorts of accountability processes need to kick in. Some of the options considered included:

a. Stand-alone with full legal status, Board, budget, staffing, etc.

b. Placed within another organisation - in effect becoming a section or programme of that organisation - the operational rules and regulations of which would apply to the Alliance process. 

c. That the Alliance has no core budget at all - different parts of the Alliance pick up elements of the programme and subsequent expenditures with overall coordination coming from the Alliance meetings.

5. FUNDING

Consideration was given to the funding base for the Alliance. Some of the contributions included:

a. Rafael was clear that though UNICEF could possibly continue with a contribution the process of the Alliance needs to be co-owned by the larger group, including a solid funding base.

b. Should there be direct finding then there would need to be a robust set of by-laws.

c. The question was raised concerning the possibility of members of the Alliance sharing covering its costs as outlined in an agreed budget. Warnings were put on the table re possible conflicts with other processes and platforms in this field of work that had that same revenue base.

d. There was a reminder that one of the core ideas from the consultation process was to source the initial funding (two years?) from one large Foundation or equivalent. This would be additional funds into the overall field of work so would not conflict with other processes and platforms. Such funds would act for a start-up phase whilst the longer term funding process is sorted.   

ACTIONS

Four specific action steps were agreed:

A. Develop an integrated work plan and budget document (assigned to Warren)

B. Complete the Principles draft (assigned to Warren)

C. Outline 5 overall possible organisational models (assigned to Rafael)

D. (Building from the principles document) Develop an initial set of by-laws. (assigned to Lisa)

Target date for completion: Friday, June 29th, 2018 

Following the Infastructure Cluster meeting on June 21st, 2018, below is the attempt to draw together the initial draft set of principles upon which the Alliance will be built with the critique and suggestions from Lisa Hilmi (CORE Group).

That redraft follows. It is for review by Lisa, Rafael and Susan Goldstein.

Others are cc'ed for information and progress update purposes.   

INFRASTRUCTURE PRINCIPLES - Draft 2 - June 25, 2018

Work will soon commence with the medium and long-term development of the infrastructure for the Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change Communication - Building Informed and Engaged Societies (GAfSBCC - BIES - or the Global Alliance for short). This will require decisions across the full range of participation, leadership, decision-making, rules and by-laws, funding, personnel and relationships with other organizations questions and themes. Some of these principles have already been negotiated, outlined and agreed through the process that formulated the Agreement to Cooperate. But more detail is required.

As a beginning to this process of laying out the foundation principles upon which the shape and details of the Global Alliance will be constructed, the following are proposed for discussion:

POSITIONING

1. The Global Alliance is an umbrella process - it is designed to bring together a group of associations, networks and organizations that share sufficient common principles and goals that they wish to work together to address some commonly agreed priority issues.

2. The Global Alliance will not compete with other associations, networks and organisations - it is designed to enhance and add value to the work of others not to compete with them by for example developing a separate knowledge base and network, submitting rival funding proposals or membership fee processes, and engaging in direct programming work.

COMMITMENT AND PARTICIPATION

3. The core document for this Alliance is the Agreement to Cooperate - all invited and participating organisations will be required to sign. This includes:

a.  Endorsement of the Vision of the Alliance – “Fully informed and engaged societies  working to achieve equity and realize their rights”

b.  Agreement with the Mission of the Alliance – “Advance the scale, quality, impact and sustainability of communication for development, media for development, social change and behavioral change strategies”.

c.  Commitment to work actively with the other organisations that are part of the Alliance to build its scale and influence on behalf of this field of work.

4. The maximum number of organisations to be part of the Alliance is 30 - this ensures a manageable process that requires a light organizational touch with good familiarity and close working relationships between the organizations involved.

5. At all times in the life of the Alliance there will be the following balance in the organizations that constitute the Alliance:

a.  50% of the individual organisations should be Southern developed and managed organisations.

b. A significant number of the networks and partnerships that exist for some of the sub-sectors in this field should be involved.

c. Balanced (voice and numbers) across the different strategic approaches in this field of work.

d. Balanced (voice and numbers) across the global regions.

e.  Balanced (voice and numbers) across development issues.

f. Commitment across all organisations involved to equity principles and issues.

6.  The initial organizations, networks and associations to comprise the Alliance will be identified, agreed and invited by the interim group established and agreed at the New York consultation in June, 2017.

7.  Any additional or replacement organizations will need to be agreed by 75% of the Alliance organizations. 

8.     Commitment to participate for a minimum of two years - upon which there will be a review from all perspectives of the engagement in this agreement to cooperate.

ETHICS

9.  A Statement of ethical principles will be developed. These will provide a set of ethical standards and processes,  beginning with a "do no harm" principle, for social change, behaviour change, informed and engaged societies. This work is to be commpleted in the first 2 years of the Alliance.

 
DECISION-MAKING

10. All decisions by the Alliance require a 75% majority.

11. Active participation in the 11 Alliance conference calls that will take place once per month over the course of a year.

12. Attend and actively participate in the one in-person meeting of the Alliance that will be held in each calendar year.

 
13.  Significant participation in at least one of the working clusters within the Alliance that will be created to advance the agreed priorities.

14. The full Alliance will elect a Chairing organisation on an annual basis. That chairpoerson will chair the Alliance and be its primary voice and spokesperson. 

PROFILE and BRANDING

15.     The Alliance will have its own brand with logo, tag line, etc - for all substantive communications the names of the Alliance organisations will be included with links to     their web sites and the emails of their GAfSBC-BIES focal points.  

16.    Each of the organisations that comprise the Alliance will highlight the work of the Alliance as appropriate in their own major communication processes. 

GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES

17. The Alliance will conduct activities collectively, based on an annual workplan with strategic priorities that are approved by all GASBCC members.

18. All logos and branding of the GASBCC will be used soley for the activities and use by the GASBCC, and not individual members for separate activities.

19. Resourcing will be conducted only  for activities approved by the GASBCC in the annual workplan, in a non-compete process with the GASBCC members.

RESOURCING

20. Keeping to the no-compete principle outlined above the organizations in the Alliance will work individually and collectively to identify opportunities to fund the work of the Alliance from sources that do not compete with the funding of the existing partnerships, networks and programmes in this field of work.

21.     This includes financial contributions from the participating organizations to the GAfSBC-BIES revenue requirements - they should not replace such contributions to existing partnerships or networks in this field of work. 

22.    Each participating organisation will consider contributing relevant non-financial capacities of their organisations that can be allocated as a contribution to the work of the Alliance.

DISPUTES

23. A sub-group of the Alliance will be elected to handle any disputes that arise. They will recommend to the full Alliance the actions to take in relation any disputes they have considered. The full Alliance will make the final decisions.

To: Infrastructure Cluster - Global Alliance

cc Other Alliance participating organisations for information

NOTES

INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING - JULY 19, 2018

Participants - Lisa, Rafael, Warren, Tom, Patrick (Sue sent apologies)

Chair - Lisa

A. Branding

Stressed that we needed an overall visual identity incuding a logo, based on the agreed mission and tag line. This Needs a designer. Rafael indicated that UNICEF would put some funds into this.

Task: Patrick agreed to lead a process to develop a branding brief (drawing on his social marketing expertise).

Task: On receipt of that brief Rafael and Lisa to check on possible designers and budgets.

B. Web site  

This will need to be branded to the Alliance. Warren was asked to check if this could be based within The CI platform but with a very different theme, image and URL? This would ensure it was integrated into the overall communications and knowledge sharing platform but with the distinct identity of the Alliance. Rafael indicated that UNICEF would also support this process financially if the required conditions could be met. 

Task: Warren to present proof of principle and very basic budget

C. Principles and by-laws.

Time was spent looking at the difference between the principles developed and the by-laws.  From the present principles list Warren was asked to sort out 5 or 6 major principles and the others tat could be by-laws (or some other name - for example operating procedures.

Patrick asked about the intended legal basis for the Alliance as if it was not going to be incorporated in same way - for example as a (501)c3 then did we require by-laws?

Lisa responded that no matter the legal basis agreed core operating procedures were required. But that this would become increasingly important if the Alliance was to receive funds. That would require a clear legal basis. We will require a formal way to receive and be accountable for any funds that are involved.

Rafael highlighted that the Alliance may also require ECOSOC status and that would mean some kind of formal, legal organizational basis. 

Task: Warren to do a basic 5 principles document and some initial categorisation of the by-laws/operational elements required. The cluster can than work on those elements - for example the new participants rule - who approves new participating organizations into the Alliance and how does that happen?    

D. Ethics

Tom recounted the Bali conversation between himself, Lisa and James that led to the ethics initiative within the Alliance. The idea is to develop a code of ethics for this field of work. Those ethical principles should be reflected in the governing principles document. In response to questions raised by the members of the cluster, Tom clarified:

a. That what was intended would take at least a year to develop

b. That it would be an in-depth process - there had to be extensive dialogue, debate, idea generation, review and critique across this field of work.

c. That this was important for helping to ensure the code of ethics developed was embedded in the filed - not just dropped on them for possible endorsement. 

d. That he would welcome the suggestion of people who could be engaged - in particular those with an ethics background and interest.

Task: Tom to a basic plan with milestones for this process (end of July was agreed as the deadline for this

Task: All members of the cluster to suggest people who could be engaged.

E. Alliance participating organisations

As follow up to the question asked by James in the Alliance meeting the previous day. it was agreed that the Infrastructure group would be the first point of review for the status update on Alliance participation - plus James as he asked the question.

Task: Warren to provide that update

To: Infrastructure Cluster - Global Alliance

Hi - in the course of the Alliance meeting last Wednesday James requested an update on the status of the organisations invited to participate in the Alliance. In a subsequent meeting with Rafael we agreed that this should go to the Infrastructure Cluster (plus James) first for review. Please see attached.

1. The list of orgs is the one agreed in Baltimore

2. You will see an update column - quick notes

3. Then columns that indicate if they are in the communication loop. 

4. Finally a column with recommended actions.

For your review and recommendation.

Warren

To: The Infrastructure Cluster - The Global Alliance

Hi - at the meeting of the Infrastructure Cluster convened in New York last week I ws asked to break out the present principles document into Principles and Operating Procedures (by-laws). Please see attached online. 

1. They are broken out for your review.

2. Within the 2 sections they are not in any order . 

3. I stuck to the points in the previous draft principles document.

4. Understand that following your review and comment, Lisa will pick this up from here and add her thoughts and ideas

Best - Warren

To: Infrastructure Cluster - Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change - Building Informed and Engaged Societies

cc Others in Global Alliance

Hi folks - hope that everyone is well. Based on the guidance from the most recent meeting of the Infrastructure cluster we have quickly put together a basic, interim web presence for the Alliance along the lines suggested. Just a few notes before you review:

1. As stressed in the meeting this is interim to plug a gap whilst the longer-term strategy is developed.

2. As the tech staff are away I did most of this - there are some things we can add later. 

3. It is published so that you can review - but we will not highlight in anyway - eg through The Drum Beat (48,000 subscribers) until we get the heads-up. 

4. For now the main purpose is a link that Alliance participants can share to help highlight and explain the Alliance.

5. As guided we have stripped out most of The CI stuff so that this looks like a discrete Alliance "product". Some remains because there is very little Alliance specific knowledge at present. As that material is developed it will replace The CI stuff.

6. It is a CI URL - when we are in Drupal 8 (next couple of months) we can have a masquerade URL I understand. (If I had better tech skills could probably do now!)

7. At top you will see two mainly blank lines - the ones ending with the log in block and the search block. The top one of these is for social media links when those Alliance accounts are underway. The 2nd - the search block line - is for navigation items - eg perhaps around the Prioriites - so Policy Engagement, Evidence and Impact, etc. Both of these are easily added.

8. As an interim image whilst the overall branding is being developed we have included a portion of the image from the HLPF work. But happy to replace with any suggestions you have. 

9. The Core Documents section has just two at present - the Alliance overview and the Summit Declaration. Happy to add others or replace those.A maximum of 5 will show with others available when appropriately coded when users click "View All". 

10. The 2nd section - Global Alliance - Vision, Mission, Priorities, Participation - very briefly summarises those core elements with links to the fuller summary from the sub-titles. This block is repeated in the side margin of node/summary pages.

11. We can change the order and put that block first - your call

12. The third section is the place for Recent Alliance related knowledge. Just 4 at present - eg the 2 HLPF presentations. I think 20 will show max and then there is the View All Option.

13. The final home page block outlines the participating organizations in the Alliance with links to their web sites, naming of contact people with links to profiles (and ability to contact when logged in without revealing email addresses) plus a column of links to summaries of that orgs programme action, strategic thinking, research and evaluation, etc. 

14. A few specifics related to that block.

15. The list of orgs (left column) is the set of organisations agreed in the Baltimore meeting. UNICEF had responsibility for contacting those orgs.

16. I am trying to catch up with UNICEF on where we are at with some of these. For some orgs we still await confirmation and/or contact people. So these have tbd inserted. 

17. The summaries are on The CI platform - so people can quickly review the work of the Alliance participants. (Of course they also have the option of opening the organisations web site in 1st column.)

18. As there is a very significant overlap between Alliance participating organisations and The CI strategic and funding partners some of the orgs in the Alliance have their own theme sites (eg JHU CCP) to which we have linked. In other cases we have linked to a search. Where there are gaps we can build up knowledge. And it is possible to build addiitonal theme sites for all Alliance orgs.

19. Please let me know if there are any naming or link errors! 

20. Across all of the site there is a bunch of The CI technology working including filters for searches, log-on, the themimg process, blocks, Views, menus, taxonomy terms, etc, etc. 

20. Presently this is very basic. Happy to entertain any suggestions. Lots can be done.

Please click this link to access - suggest you review an anonymous and logged in.

I have inserted a discrete link at bottom of block when you mouse over Global in navigation line when in The CI process so that you can access easily without remembering the link.

For your review - thanks - Warren

Best wishes - below is the suggested agenda for the INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster meeting on THURSDAY August 23rd at 7am New York time. UNICEF will send the call in numbers. The Chair is Lisa Hilmi.

The Infrastructure Cluster thread is at this link

From my records the participants in this Cluster are: Lisa Hilmi (CORE Group); Rafael Obregon (UNICEF); Patrick Cook (ISMA); Sue Goldstein (Soul City); Urvashi Gandhi (Breakthrough); Charita Bondanza (UNICEF - Administrative Support); Warren Feek (Secretariat - The Communication Initiative). But we are sending this to all as everyone is most welcome!

AGENDA - INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster - Global Alliance - Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 - 10 am New York time

1. Introductions - there may be people joining for the first time.

2. Branding

Task: Patrick agreed to lead a process to develop a branding brief (drawing on his social marketing expertise).

3. Initial interim web site

Task: Warren to present proof of principle and very basic budget

Please see the following links for progress. Re the budget this is included in the overall budget (see below).

Interim Web Site

Explanation of interim web site

Task: Rafael to look at a process to gain some outside quotes for possible initial web related costs

4. Principles and by-laws:

Task: Warren to do a basic 5 principles document and some initial categorisation of the by-laws/operational elements required. The cluster can than work on those elements - for example the new participants rule - who approves new participating organizations into the Alliance and how does that happen?    

Please see Principles and Operating procedures (by-laws) draft (with attachment )

5. Ethics

Task: Tom to a basic plan with milestones for this process (end of July was agreed as the deadline for this

Task: All members of the cluster to suggest people who could be engaged.

Tom to update

6. Alliance participating organisations

Task: Warren to provide that update

Please see Review: Alliance participant status

Rafael to update

9. Draft Plan of Action and Budget

As requested we have developed a draft pplan of action and budget. It is attached. The other 2 clusters are reviewng their draft plans at their meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday so there may be further info available. 

8. Any other items that people wish to raise.

Background documents:

Notes - Infrastructure Cluster meeting - July 19, 2018

Notes - Global Alliance Meeting - July 18, 2018

To: Infrastructure Cluster

cc Others in Alliance as FYI

NOTES - INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster - Global Alliance - Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 - 10 am New York time

1. Introductions - there may be people joining for the first time.

There was no-one new joining

2. Branding

Task: Patrick agreed to lead a process to develop a branding brief (drawing on his social marketing expertise).

Patrick introduced the core elements of his very initial branding paper that had just been distributed to all (see attached online with this post). He covered all 6 elements - namely:

Mission:  Advance the scale, quality, impact and sustainability of communication for development, media for development, social change and behavioral change strategies.

Goal/ Objective:  Increase commitment of policymakers and leaders to incorporating and funding social and behavior change strategies as an integral part of all development initiatives, programs, and projects.

Competition:  Who or what are our biggest competitors? Even though the Global Alliance does not intend to or have an interest in competing with other organizations, associations, or alliances, policymakers and leaders of funding agencies and organizations may find it challenging to distinguish the Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change. It will be important to position ourselves in a place that distinguishes our membership and goals. Other international alliances or organizations that may be confused with our Alliance include  [include list].

Target Audience: Primary – Policymakers and leaders of bi- and multi-lateral agencies and organizations who establish policy or direct the strategy of development initiatives, programs, and projects for low- and middle-income countries.
Secondary –Program managers and staff who influence the decisions of agency and organization leaders.

Positioning Statement: For policymakers and leaders of agencies and organizations funding development projects, the Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change is the alliance that represents a coalition of social and behaviour change organizations and delivers the evidence, policy support, and credibility for incorporating social and behaviour change strategies into all development initiatives, programs, and projects. 

Brand Essence: What are the key consistent attributes that differentiate the brand from competitors, as perceived by the audience? Inclusive but authoritative, collective, professional, evidence-based, engaged, [others]

In response there were the following questions, comments and responses from Patrick:

Tom: Is the Mission consistent with the core paper for the Alliance - Patrick - yes

Rafael - how quickly can we complete this as do not want the process to take a long time - Patrick - depends on the resources available? Rafael confirmed that along with the web site for the first year UNICEF would have resources available for the branding process. There was agreement to settle the branding brief within 30 to 45 days and that he would soon confirm he level of resourcing available for the branding bit of the process. 

Lisa asked if this was in effect the one page value proposition for the Alliance - an outline of what we offer - our value. Patrick confirmed that yes this is the purpose. As a follow up Lisa suggested we unpack that value in particular with some numbers to show what we offer - for example the scale and diversity of the work of the Alliance participating organizations.

Tasks and Schedule:

Comments: Infrastructure Cluster participants to send comments to Patrick with suggestions for amending or adding to the draft branding brief - All by cob Friday 24th August

Next draft: To be completed by Tuesday August 28th for submission to the full Alliance meeting on 30th August - Patrick

Resources: Rafael to confirm the resources available for the branding process - connect, design and production of initial materials - no date was set

3. Initial interim web site

Task: Warren to present proof of principle and very basic budget

Please see the following links for progress. Re the budget this is included in the overall budget (see below).

Interim Web Site

Explanation of interim web site

Task: Rafael to look at a process to gain some outside quotes for possible initial web related costs

In response to the proof of principle request Warren explained that it was easier to create something long the line requested by the Cluster than try to explain it in words. He directed people to a draft site built on The CI platform, using the extensive technology available, but stripped of almost all The CI “material’. It was stressed that this was very much an initial attempt to get something that could be used on an interim basis whilst the Alliance was in its formative stages and the interim and longer term online requirements were discussed and agreed. Simply provides a place for people to go in these very initial stages.

Warren also highlighted that (a) it still had a core The CI URL (b) the blue line to left of login was for social media icons and links when those were developed (c) the blue line to the left of the search bar was for navigation items when they were agreed (d) the ’logo’ was just an excerpt from the Raised Hands sheet (e) colours and logo are easily changed (f) there are numerous design options available for the home page - eg addition of right margin blocks. At present there is very little material from the Alliance - hence the limited selection. But as new knowledge is developed and communicated - for example the Evidence and Impact data or upcoming events - they can be added and featured.

Warren ended the intro stressing (a) “interim” in response to a need for somewhere to point people asking for info on the Alliance (b) builds on The CI technology (c) that The CI is going through a major upgrade to Drupal 8 which will produce a lot of other possibilities - for example distinct home page design different to The CI template and a unique domain and (d) at present this is very basic by design. 

Questions and comments included      

Patrick - as an interim measure is great - will be important to add tiles, links, etc for a more substantial feel and look. Warren agreed.  

Tom - possible having the Mission etc at top so people can immediately see who we are and what we do. Warren made that adjustment.  

Lisa asked (a) what we mean by interim and (b) for transparency will we still be seeking the quotes for an interim process? 

On the interim question Warren explained that all he was doing with this was (a) showing the requirements requested by the Cluster at the previous meetings were possible (eg strip out The CI content elements) and (b) if this looks even basically OK provide a very initial place where we could point people for info on the Alliance whilst we developed either an alternative interim web process and/or the fuller, permanent web presence.  

The importance of the unique URL issue was stressed by many of the people on the call. Warren explained that he had done most of the work on the example Alliance site as the tech folks were away. He would pick the URL issue up with them. But in order to avoid lots of work, as URLs can be tricky related to spam id etc if they are masked or alias, it might be prudent to wait until Drupal 8 was up and running to tackle this issue (it has a unique domains process). Plus depended how long the site would be “interim”.

The Cluster agreed the foliage strategic steps:

a. That The CI platform would host the interim Alliance web presence for the next 12 months.

b. That as an initial step Infrastructure Cluster members send suggestions to Warren for quick things that could be done to enhance the present very basic (by design) interim site he had presented. The caveat is that Warren will have discretion to accept or reject based on technical feasibility and time required - by cob Tuesday 28th August.

c. With those enhancements the site to be shared with others in the Alliance - ideally at the August 30th meeting but recognize that might not be possible depending on what needs to be done.

d. That we delay public communication of this site until after (a) Alliance participant comments have been received and addressed and (b) after the branding exercise has been completed and those branding decisions incorporated into the interim Alliance site - 6 weeks was suggested as a reasonable time frame - so 1st or 2nd week of September. 

d. UNICEF and The CI to work out the financing requirements and possibilities for that first year. 

e. Work to commence in October 2018 by the Infrastructure on the longer term, permanent online requirements. This will include the process for receiving bids and deciding on the best way forward in a transparent manner.  

4. Principles and by-laws:

Task: Warren to do a basic 5 principles document and some initial categorisation of the by-laws/operational elements required. The cluster can than work on those elements - for example the new participants rule - who approves new participating organizations into the Alliance and how does that happen? Please see Principles and Operating procedures (by-laws) draft (with attachment)

Time precluded the Cluster from addressing this issue. Lisa to follow up.

5. Ethics

Task: Tom to a basic plan with milestones for this process (end of July was agreed as the deadline for this

Task: All members of the cluster to suggest people who could be engaged.

Tom updated the Cluster on the Ethics developments. He has written a 900 word “brief” that has gone to a core group working on this task - himself, Charlotte, Patrick, Lisa and James. This includes the aims, action plan, potential issues and initial ideas. He had also collected names of people who would form a reference group with an overview and “check-in” role. This includes Sue Goldstein (Soul City) and Kier DeVries (The CI). A graduate student at Temple would also support the process. 

The initial timetable is to get feedback on the 900 word paper from people in the core group, amend and distribute to the reference group for their comments and then share with the Infrastructure Cluster at our next meeting in the 3rd full week of September. This was agreed.

An issue was raised about the diversity of people and orgs in the core group. Tom was very open to a couple of other people joining but did wish to keep the group small.

Task: All cluster members to propose to Tom additional people for a core Group working on the Ethics task by Tuesday Aug 28th. Tom will consider and make the final decisions. 

6. Alliance participating organisations

Task: Warren to provide that update

Please see Review: Alliance participant status

Rafael to update

We did not cover this item as time was restricted.

9. Draft Plan of Action and Budget

As requested we have developed a draft plan of action and budget. It is attached. The other 2 clusters are reviewng their draft plans at their meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday so there may be further info available.

All were asked to review the draft plan and provide comments by cob Tuesday 28th, 2018

8. Any other items that people wish to raise.

There was one item raised - the timing of the meetings. That 10 am EST, 7am PST, 7-30pm Delhi and 7pm Cape Town (as examples) are not the best or many people.

Task; Check with Sue and Sohini concerning when works best for them (Lisa)

Task: Depending on the response draw up an alternating meeting schedule with, for example evening calls in Delhi one month and morning calls in Delhi the next month (Warren when response is in from Lisa check with Sue and Sohini above).

The very initial and draft work plan and budget for 2018/2019 is attached. The draft format is based around the work of Clusters with projections for each quarter. At present it is a series of "cells". When there is overall agreement on the plan of action it will be rewritten as prose. The present draft plan is for review and comment by all engaged in the Alliance. Please provide comments by September 7th 2018.

Hi folks - below is the suggested agenda for the INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster meeting on THURSDAY September 20th at 10am New York time. UNICEF has sent the call in numbers and skype for business link. Please see the email from Charita. There have been issues with these connectiosn this week that are outside the control of Unicef staff. But we will give it a go in the morning. The Chair is Lisa Hilmi.

The Infrastructure Cluster thread is at this link

From my records the participants in this Cluster are: Lisa Hilmi (CORE Group); Rafael Obregon (UNICEF); Patrick Cook (ISMA); Sue Goldstein (Soul City); Urvashi Gandhi (Breakthrough); Charita Bondanza (UNICEF - Administrative Support); Warren Feek (Secretariat - The Communication Initiative).

But we are sending this to all as everyone is most welcome!

AGENDA - INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster - Global Alliance - Thursday, September 20th, 2018 - 10 am New York time

1. Introductions - there may be people joining for the first time.

2. Branding - update from Patrick and Rafael

3. Alliance web site (initial) - update from Warren and Rafael

4. Principles and by-laws - update from Lisa

5. Ethics - update from Tom

6. Agreement to Cooperate signing by Alliance orgs - Rafael to update

7. Draft Plan of Action and Budget

We expect this to be the main focus of the meeting.

a. Draft Infrastructure Cluster Plan - October 2018 to September 2019 - Please see the Action Plan and Budget document attached when you access this note on the platform (Click "Please click to review ... above). Please see the tab named "Plan Oct 1 18 Sept 19" - cells A31 - E70. For review and proposed edits, additions and deletions. 

b. (Very) Draft Alliance Budget - October 2018 to September 2019 - Please see the Draft Budget 18-19 tab in the attachment (when opened on platform). Please note that this is a very initial stab at a budget. Warren to provide an overview. Then for review, comment, edits and suggestions by the Infrastructure Cluster before taking to the full Alliance. Just to stress again that this a very draft budget. It is based on all sorts of assumptions that may or may not be reasonable or possible. 

8. Any other items that people wish to raise.

Background documents:

Notes - Infrastructure Cluster meeting - Thursday August 23rd 2018

Notes - Global Alliance Meeting - August 30th, 2018

These are the notes from the Global Alliance Infrastructure meeting Thursday September 20th at 10am NY time. Please note that participation in this meeting was also significantly disrupted by the Skype for Business issues being experienced by Unicef and/or SfB more generally. 

The agenda for this meeting is at this link.

Notes:

Agenda item 2. Branding

Unicef and ISMA have found a way forward for Unicef support on the branding task and branding assets - logo, colours, powerpoint template, images etc. So this task can move forward. Noted that the brading work will of course inform the design of the web site.

Agenda item 3. Web site

Following the decision of the last Infrastructure Cluster meeting, Unicef and The Communication Initiative have commenced discussions concerning the scope of work and resources required for the interim Alliance web site. This work will include asking for input from the Alliance participating organisations on design and functionality requirements.      

Agenda item 4. Principles and by-laws

Unfortunately at the last minute Lisa was unable to participate in this Cluster meeting. As she has been leading on this task we agreed to ask if a written update was possible.

Agenda item 5. Ethics

Tom provided an update: the plan of action has been circulated to the small group managing this process; time frame is to have it completed by the next SBCC Summit; requires Lisa to comment on the role of the Infrastructure cluster in this task; and, Tom has secured assistanship support from a post-grad student - Nicole - in his faculty at Temple to help with the work involved in this task.

Charlotte asked about the consultation process for the development of the Ethics "code". Tom responded that extensive consultation is a major part of the plan and those conversations will be part of crafting the code itself. 

Sue Goldstein highlighted that one of the principles fof the Alliance is full participation in one face-to-face meeting per year. She stressed that this is an ethical issue in and of itself for the Alliance. Therefore imprtant we get the full range of perspectives when developing the Ethical "code".  Tom agreed.

Agenda item 6. Agreement to Cooperate

Rafael provided a brief update. It is in the process of being sent out this week. All should receive soon.

Agenda item 7. Plan - Infrastructure Cluster

Warren introduced the Infrastructure parts of the draft plan of action (also attached when you open this message online through clicking on "Please click here to review  ...").

Participants agreed that this covered the main elements of the required work by the Infrastructure Cluster. They all agreed to further revuew and send comments. Concern was expressed that some of the timelines may be a little tight. Support was expressed for the equalization process. There was endorsement of the spread sheet format.   

Agenda item 8. Budget

Warren also introdcued the draft budget (also attached when you open this message online through clicking on "Please click here to review  ..." and access the Draft Budget 19-19 tab.)  This is the 3rd version of the budget following inputs from Unicef and The CORE Group (through Lisa as Cluster Chair). The implications of those comments were included in the budget presented  for example comments from Lisa on the overhead % (increased) and reduction of the number of budget lines.      

The cluster went around the room for overall comments and questions. Tom (IAMCR) thought nothing stuck out as an unreasonable estimate; that it all looks reasonable. Sue (Soul City) thought it looked very reasonable and stressed the equalization line. Charlotte thought it was a good start, efficient and nicely done. Questions related to overhead costs, insurance and benefits were explained. Charlotte highlighted that Professional services needed a clearer explanation and Legal costs were way too low!.

It was agreed to send this budget to the full Alliance for review including at the next Alliance meeting.

Hi folks - below is the suggested agenda for the INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster meeting on THURSDAY October 18th at 10am New York time. Charita at UNICEF has sent the call in numbers and skype for business link. The Chair is Lisa Hilmi but she is travelling at the time of the meeting so Rafael and Warren will tag team it. 

The Infrastructure Cluster thread is at this link

From my records the participants in this Cluster are: Lisa Hilmi (CORE Group); Rafael Obregon (UNICEF); Patrick Cook (ISMA); Sue Goldstein (Soul City); Urvashi Gandhi (Breakthrough); Charita Bondanza (UNICEF - Administrative Support); Warren Feek (Secretariat - The Communication Initiative). But we are sending this to all as everyone is most welcome!

AGENDA - INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster - Global Alliance - Thursday, October 18th, 2018 - 10 am New York time

With the adoption of the work plan the agenda is structured around the main Infrastructure elements in that plan. For this meeting the proposal is that we move through the main elements of the agreed plan related to the Infrastructure Cluster. The agenda below is structured around that Infrastructure plan.

1. Introductions - there may be people joining for the first time.

2. Operating procedures/By-laws development

October-December tasks:

2.1 By Sept 30, 2018 there should be a draft set of by-laws developed. At this point Warren has drafted a document that separates the core principles out and the turns that other principles already agreed into operating procedures/by-laws. Lisa will now take that and develop a fuller set of by-laws and operating principles by end Sept 2018. These will have been reviewed and amended by the Infrastructure Cluster. 

2.2 Full Alliance reviews the principles and operating procedures document developed by the Infrastructure Cluster.

2.3 In accordance with the feedback from the full Alliance the Infrastructure Cluster amends the Principles and Operating Procedures document and reverts to the full Alliance for adoption

3. Branding process for the Alliance

October-December tasks:

3.1 By September 30, 2018 Patrick (ISMA) will have developed the branding guidelines for the Alliance, these will have been reviewed and amended by the Infrastructure Cluster and submitted to the full Alliance for their review and decision.

3.2 Logo designed and available

3.3 Colour template agreed and available

3.4 Brochure designed and available

3.5 Document cover design style designed and available

3.6 Web site insert box (for the web sites of Alliance participating orgs) agreed and available

3.7 Poster designed and available

4. Alliance web presence

October-December tasks:

4.1 INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster has made the decision that The Communication Initiative will be the platform for the Alliance web presence for the initial 12 months and Unicef has committed to financially support this phase -  they will provide The CI with an agreement

4.2 By the end of September very preliminary version of the Alliance web presence to be available on The CI site

4.3 Required design for the initial web presence negotiated with The CI

4.4 Plan developed and agreed for further development of the 1 year web presence within the resources available.

4.5 Commence implementation of the revised Alliance interim web presence.

4.6 Commencement of Alliance social media presence - Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and others that may be selected

5. Ethics statement initiative

October-December tasks:
(note - these may have been amended by Patrick who is leading on this - he will outline)

5.1 Note: work on this has commenced. So some of below may be complete by September 30, 2018. As the plan is being developed only broad strokes are provided at present.

5.2 Ethics core group and 'interested persons" review group established.

5.3 Three meetings of the Ethics sub-group have taken place.

5.4 Overall plan of action to develop a set of ethics principles for this field of work has (a) been drafted (b) critically reviewed by the interested persons group (c) amended in response to that critical review and (e) approved by the Infrastructure Cluster.

5.5  Very initial set of ethical principles developed as a document designed for debate and further input by a broader group of people in this field of work

6. Alliance Funding

October-December tasks:

6.1 Note: By September 30, 2018 there will be a 12 month plan and budget agreed by the full Alliance (with the starting point for that process being this initial draft).

6.2 Note: By September 30, 2018 there should be an Alliance decision as to the preferred ways to fund the budgeted work of the Alliance in accordance with the core non-compete principles agreed as a vital basis for the Alliance

6.3 Specific and detailed funding plan for the Alliance developed and agreed. 

7. Alliance participation equalization

October-December tasks:

7.1 Note: By September 30, 2018 there will be agreement amongst the full Alliance as to whether to take steps to ensure that the smaller organisations that are part of the Alliance are supported to attend relevant meetings and… if the answer is yes ….

7.2 … the options will be presented and discussed by the full Alliance with a decision made as to which option to implement. 

With the adoption of the work plan the agenda was structured around the main Infrastructure elements in that plan. That agenda can be seen at this link

1. Introductions - there may be people joining for the first time.

There were no new people joining.

2. Operating procedures/By-laws development

October-December tasks:

2.1 By Sept 30, 2018 there should be a draft set of by-laws developed. At this point Warren has drafted a document that separates the core principles out and the turns that other principles already agreed into operating procedures/by-laws. Lisa will now take that and develop a fuller set of by-laws and operating principles by end Sept 2018. These will have been reviewed and amended by the Infrastructure Cluster.

2.2 Full Alliance reviews the principles and operating procedures document developed by the Infrastructure Cluster.

2.3 In accordance with the feedback from the full Alliance the Infrastructure Cluster amends the Principles and Operating Procedures document and reverts to the full Alliance for adoption

Notes:

Lisa was unable to be on the call. In a prior communication she indicated that an update would be coming soon.
 

3. Branding process for the Alliance

October-December tasks:

3.1 By September 30, 2018 Patrick (ISMA) will have developed the branding guidelines for the Alliance, these will have been reviewed and amended by the Infrastructure Cluster and submitted to the full Alliance for their review and decision.

3.2 Logo designed and available

3.3 Colour template agreed and available

3.4 Brochure designed and available

3.5 Document cover design style designed and available

3.6 Web site insert box (for the web sites of Alliance participating orgs) agreed and available

3.7 Poster designed and available

Notes:

Rafael provided an update on progress with the agreement for Unicef to proceed with a small contract for ISMA to lead on the branding work. Following Patrick’s guidance this agreement will be issued through FHI360.

This experience prompted Rafael to raise an issue of principle re participants in the Alliance utilizing their resources to support work related to the Alliance plan of action taking place; namely: that when an Alliance member provides such resources it has the space to do this  work according to its own processes, providing that the work in question has been approved by the relevant cluster.

Sue agreed, noting that when the resources are comparatively small as is the case with the branding and web development work, then we should provide that space for the Alliance organisations.

Everyone endorsed this but also agreed that for larger levels of funding the Alliance does need some guidelines. Rafael agreed to begin the process of developing these.

Tasks:

1. Rafael to continue with the Branding and Web Development agreements as already decided.
2. Rafael to clarify the FHI360 role related to the specific beading work that will be undertaken.
3. Rafael to develop some draft guidelines for Alliance participating organizations using their resources to contract other people or organizations to undertake Alliance related work.
4. Summaries of all such agreements should be shared with the full Alliance. 

4. Alliance web presence

October-December tasks:

4.1 INFRASTRUCTURE Cluster has made the decision that The Communication Initiative will be the platform for the Alliance web presence for the initial 12 months and Unicef has committed to financially support this phase -  they will provide The CI with an agreement

4.2 By the end of September very preliminary version of the Alliance web presence to be available on The CI site

4.3 Required design for the initial web presence negotiated with The CI

4.4 Plan developed and agreed for further development of the 1 year web presence within the resources available.

4.5 Commence implementation of the revised Alliance interim web presence.

4.6 Commencement of Alliance social media presence - Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and others that may be selected

Notes:

Rafael reported that the agreement with The Communication Initiative was being finalized. 

5. Ethics statement initiative

October-December tasks:
(note - these may have been amended by Patrick who is leading on this - he will outline)

5.1 Note: work on this has commenced. So some of below may be complete by September 30, 2018. As the plan is being developed only broad strokes are provided at present.

5.2 Ethics core group and 'interested persons" review group established.

5.3 Three meetings of the Ethics sub-group have taken place.

5.4 Overall plan of action to develop a set of ethics principles for this field of work has (a) been drafted (b) critically reviewed by the interested persons group (c) amended in response to that critical review and (e) approved by the Infrastructure Cluster.

5.5  Very initial set of ethical principles developed as a document designed for debate and further input by a broader group of people in this field of work

Notes:

Tom provided an overview of the work being undertaken to develop an ethics statement for this field of work. This was encapsulated in the draft note to the Launch team and Interested Individuals Group that Tom has facilitated in support of this work. That memo is attached.

Tom highlighted that they were very interested in receiving and reviewing: (a) Examples of ethics statements from other fields of work (b) Examples of ethical issues in this filed of work and (c) Ideas on ethical principles that could be included. These will inform the initial set of ethical principles that will be presented for debate and dialogue. Everyone on the call endorsed this approach.

Tom raised the possibility of the following: (a) a meeting (a panel on ethics or a specific Alliance event) as part of or in conjunction with the IAMCR event In Madrid in July, 2018 and (b) a brown bag discussion at Unicef in New York.  

Related to the IMACR event, Charlotte asked about the timeline for submissions - response from Tom was deadline is end of February and call for papers will be issued very soon. Warren commented that if we had a major presence at an academics event we should try to complement with a practitioner focused conference or other event.

6. Alliance Funding

October-December tasks:

6.1 Note: By September 30, 2018 there will be a 12 month plan and budget agreed by the full Alliance (with the starting point for that process being this initial draft).

6.2 Note: By September 30, 2018 there should be an Alliance decision as to the preferred ways to fund the budgeted work of the Alliance in accordance with the core non-compete principles agreed as a vital basis for the Alliance

6.3 Specific and detailed funding plan for the Alliance developed and agreed.

Notes:

Rafael will bring this issue to the back to full Alliance. Warren said that The CI would like to be excused from that discussion due to potential conflicts of interest. 

Task:

Rafael will convene and run this meeting.

7. Alliance participation equalization

October-December tasks:

7.1 Note: By September 30, 2018 there will be agreement amongst the full Alliance as to whether to take steps to ensure that the smaller organisations that are part of the Alliance are supported to attend relevant meetings and… if the answer is yes ….

7.2 … the options will be presented and discussed by the full Alliance with a decision made as to which option to implement. 

Notes: There was no time to address this item.

The Infrastructure Cluster

The Global Alliance web site - your input and guidance

Hi folks - as we prepare to (quickly) develop - with much valued and appreciated Unicef support - the Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change: Building Informed and Engaged Societies web site we would greatly benefit from your input and guidance. This will help to ensure that we are on the right track and in synch with your expectations and understandings. Your input is vital.

Rather than a surveymonkey kind of thing I wonder if I can just encourage you to please reply by email to below and insert your responses. I would prefer and instant response on receiving (!) but if you need a little more time then by close of business Monday Feb 12th.

These Qs are like "Starters for 10" (any University Challenge fans?). There will be more.  

1. Who? - Please provide some insights into the primary group of people/organisatins that you wish the site to attract and engage.

2. What? - What do you want them to do as a result of accessing the information, ideas, proposals, policy critiques on the site?

3. URL? - What do you suggest as the URL for the site? At this stage please do not worry whether it is available or not - we will sort that out. Obviously www.globalalliancesocialandbehaviourchangeetc.org is not the best. Neither is www.gafsabbies.org perhaps. Your ideas?

4. Feeling? - What impression/feeling do you want people to have when they first open the site? For example - serious, fun, challenging, policy-focused, information-rich, questioning, pushing a case or position? Please ignore those examples and insert your key words below.

5. Content? - What are the 3 highest priority content items or themes that you propose should be most immediately visible when users open the site.

6. Colour? - Any colour preferences? (You would be surprised - or maybe not - at how difficult and controversial the choice of colour can be!)

7. What's on the menu? - All sites need navigation menus. What are the top 3 items you would want on the navigation menu for this site?

8. Alliance orgs? - What suggestions do you have for how the Alliance participating orgs are featured and presented?

9. The quick fire round:

a. Lots of text or images dominate?

b. Videos - yes or no?

c. Polls and/or surveys - yes or no?

d. Priority focus on the participating organizations themselves or priority focus on the main issues that are the focus for the work of the Alliance itself?

e. Any other points?

10. (There is a surprise prize for this one!). Does anyone have a catchy phrase that encapsulates the focus and work of the Alliance. Something memorable and pertinent. Something that will set a tone for the site. As I am in Canada 3 Canadian examples follow (one temporary as it is a Conference passing through).

First the Conference:

Women Deliver - says it all - resonates across so many different gender related themes

Next, two radio programmes on CBC that focus on the voices of people most affected - again their names say it all.

UnReserved - has a focus on the voices, experiences, perspectives and ideas of First Nations people

Crack down - has a focus on the voices, experiences, perspectives and ideas of people (ab)using drugs - illicit and prescription 

Does anyone have such a snappy, resonance wet phrase for the work covered by the Alliance? This will set a tone for what people are "opening". Helps guide image selection. Provides a basis for section titles, Etc. At this stage please do not worry about translation across languages and cultures. We will get to that later. If you can send would be great and I will send a prize!

11. Other? Any other guidance you wish to provide.

Thanks for responding promptly. Really appreciated. 

Warren