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Executive Partner Network Meetings

Director’s Report Building Stronger Partners on the Subcontinent

and a Celebration with Friends in Cambodia

Since the early days of Global Development Group, we have
promoted relationships between partners based on a strong
belief in the value of synergy. In 2011, our Partner Network
Meetings began in Cambodia, and with support from our in-
country partners we have continued to host meetings several
times a year since then. Alongside our biennial international
Partner Conferences, Partner Network Meetings have
contributed to GDG’s development of close relationships with
our project managers and between our partners.
In November 2019, David Pearson, David Robertson, Jordan
Brayley, Kelley Chisholm, and Joel Pearson joined India
Representatives MV and Leena Thomas in Hyderabad to Top of Page: Makara Kin hosting a partner panel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
host the first India Partner Network Meeting. Travelling from Above: Partner group at the India Partner Network Meeting
across India and Australia, 50 participants from 20 in-country
and Australian partners joined. The team brought training The following month, our Cambodia partners met in Phnom
on impact measurement, project design, risk management, Penh. The long-established network here feels like a gathering
child protection in the residential care setting, and a panel of of friends and colleagues now. Makara Kin hosted a panel of
partners discussed their recent achievements. partners discussing their achievements and lessons learned
from this past year, partners shared about their projects and
“Thank you for all of your wonderful services to experiences in 2019 and we heard an update on a new HR law.
our projects through GDG. It was so good that I We celebrated the end of the year with a shared lunch and
more time for networking.
could meet you in Hyderabad. I learnt a lot from
that Conference.” In early 2020 we’ve had a disruption in these meetings due
to the restriction on gatherings, but we look forward to
Divakar Devashay, Harvest India Mission
continuing in the near future.

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