March 2006: feature on the Latin America regional partners meeting

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Latin American Regional Partners Meeting

The Impact Alliance held a LAC regional partners meeting on February 15th-17th in Santa Cruz Bolivia. We had full participation from all active IA partners operating in the LAC region, including representatives from CIRD, Universidad NUR, SNV, Pact, Pact Peru and the Impact Alliance secretariat.

Joining the IA Partners in Santa Cruz were representatives from five leading organizations from around the region that could make excellent additions to the partnership group. These organizations included: NESsT-Chile, IBAM- Brazil, Fundación Compromiso – Argentina, Fundación Esquel – Ecuador, GNTP – Bolivia. In total, 15 people attended the two day event.

The activities that generated the most interest and highest priority were:

1. Mobilize funds and promote an inter- organizational learning program to strengthen services and methodologies among IA partners and members
2. Develop a capacity building train-the-trainer (facilitator development program) that would combine skills from IA partners towards strengthening front- line capacity building practitioners
3. Research and publish an Oganizational Capacity Development approach document and host an annual conference sponsored by the IA partners

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