LINGOs is all about community and collaboration to ensure that individuals and organizations within the development, humanitarian and sustainability sectors have the right learning in the right place at the right time.  We’re actively engaging our community in a series of formal and informal listening events, and as you can see on a recent post on the LINGOs Blog, members have requested more frequent opportunities for smaller groups to have more focused dialogue and more opportunities to build local relationships.  Our members in cities with a core group of members have found the local community building to be a great resource in accelerating innovation and community building to provide learning and development opportunities for their staff and stakeholders.

We want to take full advantage of the opportunity of LINGOs CEO Chris Proulx and Project Services Director John Cropper being in Bangkok in April.  To that end, LINGOs and Member IUCN are hosting a “Meet Up” event on Friday afternoon, April 24. The purpose of the meeting is to strengthen the Bangkok and Asia-based NGO learning and development community and to connect LINGOs member and potential member colleagues working on internal organizational learning and development and programmatic capacity building in Asia.

Provisional Agenda

1:30- 1:45             Ice breaker, introductions

1:45 – 2:35           sharing of learning strategies and challenges and how the LINGOs community can help

2:35 – 3:15           Building a Learning Community/ecosystem – Chris Proulx

3:15- 4:00              What’s needed to build a Bangkok or Asia-based Learning Hub?

Group exercise

4:00- 4:30            Wrap up

Location: IUCN Bangkok

63, Sukhumvit Soi 39,

Sukhumvit Road,

Wattana, Bangkok, 10110