R2R Communications

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R2R Communications

• Ambitions challenges
• Geoff Barnard IDS
• Euforic AGM June 2006

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Ambitions

• More impact in addressing poverty and injustice
• through
• More meaningful and democratic research
  partnerships with much stronger Southern
  involvement

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Better Partnerships

• Moving from traditional Northern-dominated models

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Better Partnerships

• To more democratic, more equal and more open
  partnership models

From Development Research Centre on
Participation, Citizenship Accountability
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Taking Advantage of New Technology

• Whats worked email, web publishing
• Whats not worked (yet) shared online spaces
  (e.g. Groove, Sharepoint), online discussions
• A growing problem email overload, expectations
  around 247 connectivity

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Communication lessons

• Partnership model can be very powerful
• Face-to-face interaction is still vital
• Trust takes a long time to build up
• Issues around governance, branding, retaining
  focus
• Need an enlightened funder

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Outstanding challenge

• Creating a new role for organisations like IDS
• working out where and when we can be most
  effective
• learning how to let go