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Performance Improvement and Assessment of Collaboration: Starting points for networks and communities of practice
» Heather Creech, Michelle Laurie, Leslie Paas, Jo-Ellen Parry, IISD, 2012. Paper, 23 pages, copyright: IISDIISD’s Global Connectivity program has worked for over a decade on research and capacity building for performance assessment and improvement of collaboration. At the heart of collaborative undertakings are people and institutions choosing to work together for a greater good. We have taken on the challenge of learning about improving performance and assessing collaboration in order to help partnerships partner, alliances ally, and networks work. The following paper presents approaches to performance improvement and assessment of groups of individuals working together in networks and communities of practice (CoPs).
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Solutions for Improved Human Well-Being
» Dave Wilkins, IISD, 2012.The 2011–2012 IISD Annual Report highlights the institute’s efforts over the past year to meet the core challenge of its strategic plan—to find solutions through transformative change that improve human well-being. The strategic plan defines 12 themes encompassing 28 goals to realign macroeconomic policies, management of ecological and social systems, and global environmental governance with sustainability.
The annual report contains a series of articles on the work done to date toward achieving selected goals of our strategic plan. In the context of finding solutions for improved human well-being, the cover photo celebrates the progress made toward achieving the Millennium Development Goal related to halving by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
The report also includes a list of our funders by strategic plan theme and a summary of our financial performance for the year ending March 31, 2012.
See our complete audited financial statement: English (PDF - 105 KB) - Français (PDF - 145 KB).
For a free copy of our annual report, please contact info@iisd.ca.
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