Working Groups
About Working Groups
Open to Members only, InterAction facilitates more than 30 working groups—from region-focused to sector-specific—which convene Member staff to share information, organize advocacy, and promote ideas.
Civil Society Task Force
The Civil Society Task Force focuses on efforts to strengthen civil society and to ensure NGO access and space for all assistance efforts. We are seeing mounting restrictions and threats to civic space due to increasing government authority under the guise of responding to coronavirus. This group responds to these threats while also thinking through long-term impacts on operations.
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Climate Advocacy Working Group
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. It is one of three convening spaces supporting Members to implement InterAction’s NGO Climate Compact.
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Climate Mainstreaming Working Group
The Climate Mainstreaming Working Group supports Members during their climate change education and highlights opportunities and risks associated with climate change in development and humanitarian programming. This is one of three convening spaces supporting Members' implementation of InterAction's NGO Climate Compact.
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Communications Directors Working Group
A forum for senior-level communications staff 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.
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DFC Working Group
The DFC Working Group tracks the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and advocates for prioritizing sustainable development in U.S. development finance toward U.S. Congress and the Administration.
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Disability Listserv
The Disability Listserv promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities as a human rights issue and a critical component of effective development.
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Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group
The DRR Working Group provides a forum to share practical international experiences and knowledge, as well as works to improve coordination and raise risk reduction on the international policy and programming agenda.
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Environmental Sustainability Working Group
The Environmental Sustainability Working Group provides networked learning opportunities for Members to measure their carbon footprint, chart a course for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, and maintain organizational commitment to sustainability. It is one of three convening spaces supporting Members to implement InterAction’s NGO Climate Compact.
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Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Community of Practice
This Community of Practice builds the capacity of its Members to measure and demonstrate their effectiveness, and to inform donor policies and practices on monitoring and evaluation. It also promotes the exchange of information on tools, best and cutting-edge practices, and Member experiences on topics of interest.
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Food Security and Agriculture (FS/AG) Working Group
The Food Security and Agriculture Working Group seeks to support and strengthen U.S. NGOs that are active in implementing field programs in international agricultural development and global food security. This group focuses on congressional advocacy to ensure that investments in international agricultural development and global food security are sustained and ideally increased.
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Forced Displacement Working Group
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.
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Fragility Listserv
The Fragility Listserv offers Members periodic updates on policy and programmatic issues on the challenges of transforming unstable, conflict-affected societies into resilient ones. It focuses on themes of peacebuilding, violence prevention, and operating in fragile contexts.
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G7/G20 Advocacy Alliance
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, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of State, among others.
Join GroupGender-Based Violence Working Group
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.
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Horn of Africa Working Group
The Horn of Africa Working Group meets on an ad hoc basis to share information and coordinate advocacy for the Horn of Africa region. Current priorities include humanitarian access, operational constraints, and refugee/IDP issues. Open to InterAction Members only.
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Iraq Working Group
The Iraq Working Group discusses operational challenges in Iraq and advocates for greater funding for continuing humanitarian needs as the response shifts to early recovery. The working group meets on a monthly basis with regular information sharing. Open to InterAction Members only.
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Lake Chad Basin Working Group
The Lake Chad Basin Working Group discusses programming needs and operational challenges in the Lake Chad Basin region including Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. The group also coordinates advocacy for greater funding and humanitarian access. The working group meets on an ad hoc basis with regular information sharing.
Join GroupPakistan Working Group
The Pakistan Working Group meets on an ad hoc basis to share information and to raise awareness about the current humanitarian situation. Open to InterAction Members only.
Join GroupPreventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Community of Practice
This group provides Members the opportunity to learn from each other and share information and resources on how to effectively prevent and respond to allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse.
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Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment: From Pledge to Action Working Group
The From Pledge to Action group is the central forum for Member organizations to discuss and build consensus around effective approaches to enhance safeguarding and prevent sexual harassment and abuse. Together we seek to strengthen policies, procedures, reporting mechanisms and survivor support systems, share best practices, and build working cultures that allow staff and local communities to thrive.
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Protection Working Group
The Protection Working Group advances the protection programming and policy concerns of InterAction Member organizations, and seeks to strengthen their capacity to identify and respond to protection challenges in the field and at the headquarters level.
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Public Policy Committee
The Public Policy Committee (PPC) provides a venue for Member organizations to come together to share information and coordinate joint advocacy work focused on U.S. government policymakers in Congress and the executive branch.
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Rohingya Response Listserv
This is not an active working group. It only functions as an email list.
Join GroupSecurity Listserv
The Security Listserv is open to Member staff, whose responsibilities include the safety and security of their staff, as a means to share relevant information on current issues. Ad hoc security-focused meetings are occasionally scheduled and based on Member need.
Join ListservShelter and Settlements Working Group
The Shelter and Settlements Working Group provides a platform to improve the collaboration, capacity, practices, and policies of organizations in the Shelter and Settlements sector. It acts as a link to the global and field-level efforts with the intent of increasing the contribution and impact of humanitarian shelter and settlements stakeholders in natural disasters and conflicts. This group is open to non-members.
Join GroupSocial Media Working Group
The Social Media Working Group is a collaborative space for social media and digital communicators at member organizations. Participants share social media campaign toolkits, news, and best practices. Webinars and networking events provide additional opportunities for Members to connect and learn from each other.
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South Sudan/Sudan Working Group
The South Sudan/Sudan Working Group meets regularly to discuss programming needs in Sudan, South Sudan, and the wider region; access and security issues for operational organizations; the current conflict; and topics around a political resolution to violence in the region. Open to InterAction Members only.
Join GroupStrengthening Partnership Initiative
The Strengthening Partnerships Initiative facilitates greater cooperation between the U.S. government and NGO implementing partners to provide for better program design, increased efficiencies, and to engage policymakers and legislators in their efforts to increase the impact of U.S. foreign assistance.
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Syria Response Working Group
The Syria Response Working Group discusses operational challenges in the Syria region, including Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, and advocates for greater funding and humanitarian access. The working group meets on a monthly basis with regular information sharing. Open to InterAction Members only.
Join GroupTogether Project Working Group
The Together Project Working Group addresses common issues facing U.S.-based NGOs by strengthening collective capacity, sharing best practices, and developing strategies to combat shrinking civil society space. Structured through five workstreams, InterAction Members work collaboratively on topics such as bank de-risking, positive public image, and interfaith connections.
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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Working Group
The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Working Group seeks to improve U.S. government policies related to WASH issues in order 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. The group also encourages partnerships among private, public, and non-profit donors in the water sector.
This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 3:00 pm ET.
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Yemen Working Group
The Yemen Working Group meets regularly to facilitate the exchange of information regarding operational challenges and to coordinate advocacy efforts. The group's main priorities include: raising awareness of the humanitarian crisis, as well as access and security issues. Open to InterAction Members only.
This group meets the second week of each month.