Baltimore meeting - Agenda and papers

Hi - a few of y/ou have asked to be able to call-in to the Baltimore meeting on occasions. The call-in info is below, kindly provided by Norma at JHU - best - Warren

Hi Warren,
 
Here is the dial-in information you can share with the Global Alliance participants who will be calling in:
 
 
Dial-in:                    

1-855-747-8824 (domestic/USA)

1-719-325-2630 (international/overseas)

Participant code:        3010653963
 
 
Norma

Hi folks - look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow at 10am. I was encouraged to do a more tradiitonal style agenda. That is attached when you click "please review, reply or comment" above. The agenda relates to the papers previously sent and available at this link. Thanks - Warren  

Hi folls - unfortunately I only just received the notes that Jane so kindly compiled from our meeting yesterday and sent last night. These are attached when clickinh on "Please reviw, reply or comment" above. Thanks - see you at 9am - Warren

Hi - my tasks re the organisations.

Media Development - from the list - propose

Global Forum for Media Development - category - Partnership, Association, Network

Omidyar Foundation - category - funder

ANDI - Brazil - category - Southern

FEMNET - Africa - Womens Development and Communication Network - Southern

PANOS Southern Africa (added) - Southern

BBC Media Action - category - Northern

tbd - Asia

Hi and so excellent to see everyone who was at the Baltimore meeting. If you were not there we missed you. Of course we did not finish the agenda! So, we promised to have two quick conference calls with an emphasis on the infrastructure agenda items. Can you please let me know quickly by reply email if the following work for you:

Friday 8th December, 2017 - 10am EST

Tuesday 12th December, 2017 - 10am EST

When I have you responses I will send the formal meeting announcement and the agenda. 

Thanks - Warren

Ok - so Friday morning after the Alliance meeting ended Thursday with the name discussion, Sue, Rafael, Adelaida and myself came out of our hotel and there right on the corner was a white van with a sign. Please see attached. Ha - of course nothing to do with us and our future decisions. It was just a huge and very funny coincidence! Enjoy. Best - Warren  

Hi to everyone. You should have received notification of the two follow up conference calls to complete the Baltimore meeting process: 

Friday December 8th - 10am -11-30am EST

Tuesday December 12th - 10am -11-30am EST

The agenda is quite simple. Please see attached. We need to work our way through the

"Priority - Infrastructure of the Alliance – 12 month plan" items in the agenda attached - numbers 1 to 7. Of course these relate to the paper shared beffore the Baltimore meeting. Please let me know if you need another copy.   

Can we please suggest that you review the proposals in those sections of the paper and submit any reactions, comments or questions through the comments section related to this post.  That will greatly help to expedite the business on Friday and Tuesday. 

With many thanks - more soon - Warren

Initial Orgs for the Alliance?

Hi folks - in Baltimore we commenced work towards agreement concerning the initial 25 organisations that will be invited to inaugurate the first iteration of the Alliance.

As the basis for this process we agreed some criteria including:

1. No more than 25 orgs at the beginning in order to ensure the process is manageable.

2. 50% of the organisations (12 or 13 I assume!) should be genuinely Southern developed and managed organisations.

3. A significant number of the networks and partnerships that exist for some of the sub-sectors in this field (for example ISMA, IUHPE, AMARC, CDAC Net) should be involved.

4. Good balance across the different sub-sectors in this field.

5. Good regional balance.

6. Good balance across development issues.
 

Following the round-robins and homework to identify the possible list of organisations it was agreed that I would take the lists developed and try to get them into a form that allowed us to make some decisions against the criteria above. I have made an initial start. But, before coming up with a proposed set of 25 organizations, for your review and decision, I need some help with the long list from which these will be derived. I want to make sure we do not leave anyone out.

Can you please review the following:

1. Attached is the preliminary excel. From the round-robin and the homework I have tried to include all that were suggested. Please see the tab “Compiled data” - Column B. This is the full list according to the notes. Please do review and let me know if I have left any organizations out of this list.

 
2. In that same column - “Compiled data - Column B” you will see some are in red. These are suggestions from you on which I could not find much information. It may be that the names were notes incorrectly. Could I please ask you to review these and send me any corrected names, links and/or other further information. Thanks

3. The first tab is the “Overview data” summarising where we stand with the data as presently entered. That overview will of course change as we receive and incorporate the new data in 2 above into the excel.

4. You will that there is no compiled data for Development issue. It was just too complicated. We would have had an even more complex excel. In tab “Compiled data” please see column U. I have entered in that column some basic words associated with the development focus of each of these organizations. Please do suggest edits and changes. For the development issue balance we will need to do a more considered check to make sure we are covering the full tapestry of development.

5. In the lists developed through the round-robin and the homework there were some general suggestions that we could not categories. These included, for example: Ministries; Francophone; Lusophone; Arabic; Gender Orgs; Advocacy Orgs; Outside of Health; More global representation; and, European bilaterals. If you have specific organizations to suggest for each of these today is the time to send them!

6. In the “Compiled data” tab please look at column V. You will see some that have a red background and white question mark. Those question marks relate to columns W to AG - “The shared strategy 'cousins' that make up our "famiiy" (choosing predominant strategies)”. The question marks are there because I am not aware which of those options apply to organizations with the ? in Column V. If you have any information on this please let me know asap.

7. Please note that the numbers in the “Overview data” tab do not all add up because of the info missing for the orgs in red in the compiled data table (see 2 above)
 

Thanks - if you can respond today that would be excellent. Will give me a chance to have a fuller set of insights and knowledge upon which to make the “initial 25” proposal for your review and decision.

Best - Warren

Best wishes - attached (when you log in) are the papers for the Alliance call at 10am EST on Tuesday December 12th, 2017.

1. As we are getting near the end of this development process I have attempted to draw everything decided and proposed (eg the orgs to invite into the Alliance) into one short consolidated document (6 pages plus some Appendixes with more detail on the plans) so that we can all see the full outline of what is being developed. As Twain or Wilde (depends which side of the pond you are!) inferred in their famous quote it takes a lot longer to write a short letter. We have had a substantive process and I wanted to see if I could write the short(ish) note that outlines the full Alliance process.     

2. The paper attached also includes a link to the suggested survey on the name issues as we discussed in Baltimore.

3. I have also taken the long list of possible Alliance participating organisations and reduced it to 30 proposed organisatons. 

4. Sadly ran out of time for the Secretariat TOR and the quick budget but will do soon. 

5. As the agenda for the call suggest that we just run through the paper attached with specific attention to (a) the name survey (b) the initial organisations to be invited to form the Alliance and (c) the invitation process. 

Thanks - Warren