The document discusses the establishment and purpose of the Ianra network, which aims to promote natural resource management through collaboration among diverse members across nine countries. Key strategies include fostering leadership, building trust, and facilitating peer engagement to enhance network dynamics. It emphasizes the importance of shared ambition and the value of connections within the network to achieve collective goals.

1. Fostering Network Dynamics -Let it bubble- Utrecht, 13 April 2011 Rosemarie Wuite

2. What/Who is IANRA? How did it come into existence? Role Niza Organisation & purpose Ways to foster dynamics; IANRA Pearls & Puzzles Outline

3. Emerging network on NR (since April 2009) 24 MOs, 9 countries Local-national-regional-international Diverse set of members I - INTRO

4. movie I - Solidarity Movement

5. Evolve into: Solidarity movement supportive platform, of linking and learning to unite behind a common community driven agenda serves as a well-informed and credible reference point for information and opinion on natural resource management. WHY & HOW=key learning Qs I– FINDING A SHARED AMBITION AND PURPOSE

6. General Assembly Steering Committee Secretariat Coordinator National groupings Working groups I – FINDING AN ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE FOLLOW THE ENERGY

7. SHARING OWNERSHIP & BUILDING TRUST (1) Decentralise leadership & encourage and value informal leadership; Understanding and clarifying roles and expectations; Let things bubble; Value the resources within the network; Value members working voluntarily II – WAYS TO FOSTER DYNAMICS - PEARLS - 1:

8. SHARING OWNERSHIP & BUILDING TRUST (2) Peer-to-peer engagement & accountability Facilitator from the South; Communication ; Applying rules without being selective; Manage differences and group dynamics; Face-to-face contact & rotational hosting of meetings; II – WAYS TO FOSTER DYNAMICS - PEARLS - 1:

9. BALANCE ACTION-REFLECTION Action-learning approach; Learning oriented donor; Free actor; Internalise where you come from and where you’re going Include the ‘self’ and the ‘organisation’ when thinking of linking issues Follow the energy Celebrate gains II – WAYS TO FOSTER DYNAMICS - PEARLS -2:

10. Accountability ; Planning and learning in complex, dynamic environment Balancing playing/gaming Managing content based results and network capacity. attribution @ what level? Who should be included? Celebrating “MOST BRILLIANT FAILURE” Social movements vs alliance Role and capacity of Coordinator/Secretariat Membership; old/new; pace II - PUZZLES

11. “ E ffectiveness depends on the quality of the connections within the networks as well as those between the network and their environment ” – E.Wielinga “ IANRA is no more than the people that make up the network ”- IANRA member “ If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together ” - Xhosa wisdom

12. IANRA phambili! Thank you! www.ianra.org