Applications for new Communities of Expertise (COEs)

The Global Alliance secretariat will issue an annual call in the first quarter of each year for COE applications falling within GAID's defined areas of focus (education, entrepreneurship, governance and health) or cross-cutting issues (content, gender, youth and rural development). Prospective applicants are first encouraged to familiarize themselves with the area of work of existing COEs, as applications that duplicate or overlap the work of existing communities will not be approved.

The Communities of Expertise function in accordance with the principles laid out in the document "Modalities of organizing the work of UN GAID" and under the patronage of the Steering Committee, but are self-organizing and self-resourcing entities with a considerable flexibility as regards their working methods. Communities of Expertise are expected to establish metrics against which progress toward their objective(s) may be measured.

Those applicants that demonstrate that they meet the established criteria will be presented by the Secretariat to the Steering Committee for approval, subject to the submission of a detailed implementation and resource mobilization plan within six weeks of notification. Upon satisfactory review of the plan, COEs will be invited to begin operation.

At each annual meeting of the Strategy Council subsequent to their approval, COEs will be requested to submit progress reports, using metrics to illustrate how far they have come in meeting their objectives. Members of the Strategy Council will review the reports, and, if any Member feels a COE is not performing well against the criteria, they can refer it to the Steering Committee for review. If the Steering Committee agrees that a COE is not performing, the COE may be restructured or disbanded, as agreed in consultation with the lead organization of the COE.

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