USAID has identified a series of case studies of what worked for CoP's at USAID. These are attached below. CoP developers are encouraged to review these when developing their CoP.
Malaria Network - Environmental Health Project
The EHP Malaria Network began in 1994. There are 2 purposes for the network: One purpose is to provide information on current malaria research to malaria researchers in African and other countries that do not have access to libraries or the Internet...
RFNET
As the Agency Subject Matter Expert on Results Frameworks, I needed some way to interact with those who would be most affected by the concept - field mission staff and partners. RFNET turned out to have value as the only Agency informal dialogue on the reforms...
Agency Information Technology Team (I-Team)
Established by Action Memorandum by AA/G in October 1998 to "provide a non-bureaucratic, team mechanism for exchanging information about information technology program successes and lessons learned throughout USAID." Check us out: http://inside.usaid.gov/ICT/....
