Starting a journey together as a network can be a rewarding experience. Together you can reach places you would never reach by yourself. Networking is a way of sharing resources and building one another up. Being part of a network journey can also help you to grow as a person and as an organisation, and can help you to feel less alone as you work.
This Toolkit hopes to inspire people to work together more effectively. It aims to share some practical tools for starting your own network. In writing this toolkit we have borrowed from the experiences of the Children in Distress (CINDI) Network. We drew on both the successes and difficulties that this Network has been through in their own networking journey. CINDI is a Network which was founded in July 1996. It now has more than 150 members who work with children affected by HIV and AIDS. The Network supports these organisations. It is our hope that this Toolkit will help other networks to grow around South Africa and elsewhere. We hope that you will learn from CINDI’s mistakes and successes. Mostly, we hope the toolkit will be a starting point to give you confidence for your own unique network journey.
Includes six sections: 1) What is Networking? 2) Network Objectives 3) Network Membership 4) Network Activities 5) Network Structure 6) Network Relationships.
Visit www.cindi.org.za for more information about this toolkit and the network.
©CINDI - The production and publication of this document was made possible through the generosity of Irish Aid.
