Follow Up Steps: Beyond the Global Summit or Conference
- Facilitate and support various forms of debriefing with and among grantees. Grantmakers should prepare grantees in advance of the summit to expect and plan for these kinds of follow-up activities.
- Fund other ways to disseminate information and learning in connection with the summit. One grantmaker reported that “we funded a grantee to put together a one-woman show in which she assumed different identities to tell the stories of women in countries around the world. It was a very creative way to convey some of the key information in reports that came out of the Women’s Conference.”
- Fund networks of organizations that will monitor the implementation of summit agreements. “You have to fund organizations who will press governments to honor the documents. That is a whole agenda in itself. How do you keep the issues in the public limelight?”
- Support new relationships that emerge from the summit.
Takeaways are critical, bite-sized resources either excerpted from our guides or written by Candid Learning for Funders using the guide's research data or themes post-publication. Attribution is given if the takeaway is a quotation.
This takeaway was derived from World Summits and Conferences.
