Through­out Phase II of RINGO, we con­vened an INGO Board Action Pod to sup­port INGO Board mem­bers who are com­mit­ted to shift­ing pow­er and prac­tice, and to reimag­in­ing ways of work­ing with­in glob­al civ­il soci­ety. We sup­port­ed 24 Board mem­bers from 20 INGOs through a cre­ative and inter­ac­tive process to move from ideas to action, both indi­vid­u­al­ly in their own organ­i­sa­tions and col­lec­tive­ly where we need to shift bar­ri­ers at the sys­temic lev­el.

As a response, our ‘INGO Board Action Pod’ served to share our learn­ings at a gov­er­nance lev­el. Through­out the process, we offered facil­i­ta­tion, sup­port and peer engage­ment for Board mem­bers, and encour­aged the imple­men­ta­tion of inno­v­a­tive approach­es to over­come exist­ing bar­ri­ers to shift­ing pow­er. 

The INGO Board Action Pod iden­ti­fied the fol­low­ing key issues areas: 

  • Address­ing sys­temic inequal­i­ties
  • Bal­anc­ing INGO impact and local empow­er­ment
  • Shap­ing strat­e­gy par­tic­i­pa­tion
  • Redefin­ing glob­al sol­i­dar­i­ty 

The INGO Board Action Pods focused on: address­ing struc­tur­al racism; man­ag­ing mul­ti­ple account­abil­i­ties; and the role of the Board in shift­ing pow­er. See here for a sum­ma­ry of learn­ings.

For the final work­shop, we brought togeth­er mem­bers of the Board Action Pod with mem­bers of the Fun­der Action Pod to inter­ro­gate our col­lec­tive lever­age to shift pow­er in civ­il soci­ety, and con­sid­er what is block­ing us from mov­ing fur­ther.