Working Groups
About Working Groups
Open to Member Staff only*, InterAction facilitates more than 20 working groups—from region-focused to sector-specific—which convene Member staff to share information, organize advocacy, and promote ideas.
When registering for working groups, listservs, or communities of practice we suggest that you limit your selection to 5 per category to acclimate to the varying workflows until registering for additional working groups.
*Consultants or third-party vendors/partners hired by Members are not eligible to participate.
Afghanistan
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This working group meets monthly to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the Afghanistan context.
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Basic Education Coalition
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The Basic Education Coalition is an independent, nonprofit advocacy organization working to ensure that all children around the world have access to quality basic education. The Coalition works to influence Congress and the Administration to enhance the effectiveness of education programs. A separate Membership fee paid to BEC is required for participation in the organization’s activities.
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Civic Space
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InterAction’s Civic Space Working Group examines and responds to narratives and attacks from U.S.-based actors that seek to undermine foreign assistance. It fosters relationships and creates a network of NGOs prepared to educate and push back against harmful narratives around aid and development.
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Climate Advocacy
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The Climate Advocacy Working Group provides Members with networked learning and collective action opportunities to advocate for U.S. and multilateral policies, approaches, and resources to decelerate climate change and support the world’s most vulnerable to adapt to its effects.
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Communications Directors
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A space for the most senior-level communications staff person to network, brainstorm, and collaborate. This group also pulls together common messaging and activities around key development and humanitarian issues and campaigns affecting the InterAction community, including conflict and natural disasters.
To sign-up for this working group, please email Emma Nardone, InterAction’s Membership and Public Engagement Associate, by clicking the “Join” button below. All emails must come from a Member organization email address.
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Democratic Republic of Congo
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This working group meets monthly to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the DRC context.
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Development Finance
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The ad hoc Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Working Group tracks the International Development Finance Corporation and advocates for prioritizing sustainable development in U.S. development finance toward U.S. Congress and the Administration.
Food Security, Nutrition, and Agriculture
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The Food Security, Nutrition, and Agriculture Working Group is an active NGO community and learning space for InterAction Members to share best practices, current challenges, and recent research. This working group seeks to support and strengthen U.S. NGOs that are actively implementing or advocating for programs in international agricultural development, nutrition, and global food security. This group meets monthly to focus on engagement with Congress and the Administration to ensure that U.S. investments in global food security and nutrition programs remain effective, funded at appropriate levels to reach those in need, and fit to purpose to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
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Forced Displacement
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The Forced Displacement Working Group (FDWG) aims to strengthen and inform the humanitarian response to issues of forced displacement through INGO engagement with key stakeholders and provides a space to develop collective INGO positioning. The working group meets monthly.
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G7 / G20 Advocacy Alliance
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The G7/G20 Advocacy Alliance is a group of InterAction Members and allies who work together to influence the annual G7 and G20 summits. Each year, the alliance organizes policy teams around specific issues and develops recommendations for G7 and G20 policy papers. Policy papers are used to brief the White House, USAID, and the Department of State, among others.
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Gender-Based Violence
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The Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Working Group provides a collective voice to advance the GBV programming and policy concerns of InterAction Member organizations engaged in humanitarian and conflict programs. The working group meets monthly.
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Horn of Africa
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This working group meets on an ad hoc basis to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the Horn of Africa region.
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee Coordination
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The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Coordination listserv provides updates on IASC activities.
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Latin America and Caribbean
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This working group meets monthly to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the Latin America and Caribbean context.
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Locally Led Aid Advocacy
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The Locally Led Advocacy Working Group is open to InterAction Members who share the same vision of advocating for a foreign aid system where local actors own all parts of a response, including decision making, project design, and implementation of resources for development and humanitarian response. This ad hoc working group is a space for USG partners to discuss best practices for locally led development and humanitarian response.
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PPC Budget & Appropriations Subcommittee
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The Public Policy Committee Budget and Appropriations Subcommittee provides a venue for Members to engage with the annual appropriations process and learn about U.S. government budget issues. This working group meets twice a month.
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Protection
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The monthly Protection Working Group advances the protection programming and policy concerns of InterAction Member organizations. It seeks to strengthen the capacity of Members to identify and respond to protection challenges in the field and at the headquarters level.
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Public Policy Committee
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The Public Policy Committee (PPC) provides a venue for Members to come together to share information and coordinate joint advocacy work focused on U.S. government policymakers in Congress and the executive branch. This group meets monthly.
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Strengthening Partnerships
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The Strengthening Partnerships listserv provides information that facilitates greater cooperation between the U.S. government and NGOs. Its goal is to provide better program designs, increase efficiency, and engage policymakers and legislators in their efforts to increase the impact of U.S. foreign assistance.
Sudan
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This working group meets quarterly to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the Sudan context.
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Syria Regional Response
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This working group meets monthly to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the Syria context.
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U.N. Partnerships
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The new U.N. Partnerships Working Group provides a platform for InterAction Members to dialogue, share information, and advance organizational interests within operational and thematic partnership initiatives with U.N. agencies, especially WFP and UNHCR. This working group meets bimonthly, with ad hoc meetings scheduled as needed.
Ukraine
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This working group meets monthly to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the Ukraine regional response.
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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
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The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Working Group seeks to improve U.S. government policies related to WASH issues to increase sustainable access to these basic services in the developing world, improve the integration of WASH across development sectors, and prioritize service access to communities most in need.
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West Bank / Gaza
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This working group meets quarterly to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the West Bank/Gaza region.
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Yemen
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This working group meets monthly to share information, discuss operational concerns, and coordinate advocacy efforts for the Yemen context.