Developing, promoting, applying, and sharing innovations for scaling impact
GAN Competencies
For GANs to become highly effective and realize their potential, they must develop new knowledge and capacity in eight "competencies":
- Leadership: Network leadership contrasts sharply with traditional organizational leadership - it is leadership of influence, of carrots, of support and nurturing. We need to develop a new generation of leaders for the GANs.
- Strategy-Structure-Governance: GANs are defined by their multi-stakeholder, global, global, interorganizational, systemic change, learning strategy. How to best organize these qualities globally, respecting transparency, accountability and participation is a complex challenge.
- Measuring Impact: Traditional linear models of "act-impact" are inappropriate in the complex world of GANs. New methodologies must be developed to measure the contribution of GANs to the change goal, identify action priorities, and guide managerial action.
- Generative Change: GANs must be experts at creating global transformation (in addition to scaling up and reform), engage tens of millions in the change processes, and sustain the change effort for the time necessary to realize the change goals.
- Communications: Global conversations using leading social media technologies are critical to create common understanding and action to address global issues.
- Knowledge and Learning: GANs must be experts at developing new knowledge and embedding it throughout the world as rapidly as possible.
- Policy & Advocacy: GANs aim to influence a broad operating environment. They must be experts at developing policy, and ensuring its adoption and implementation.
- Resource Mobilization: GANs must draw from taxes, revenue-generation and donations to finance themselves. This requires educating about GANs role and creating a new global economic model to realize the scale that is necessary.
