- The leadership of each Community must be composed of one or more lead organizations, plus a minimum of two other partner organizations.
- The lead organization(s) must demonstrate recognized expertise and influence, and research and analytical capacity
The Community as a whole must:
- Demonstrate value, benefit and alignment with GAID (including its selected focus areas)
- Have significant scope
- Build on and add value to existing activities, work and/or experiences
- Engage in a specific task or tasks
- Define clear deliverables
- Focus on scalability, replicability and sustainability
- Encourage multi-stakeholder participation to achieve results no stakeholder group could have realized on its own
- Accept participation by experts from all relevant stakeholder groups
- Facilitate exchange of experiences and knowledge among members
- Feed its output into policy discussions
- Strive to complement the work of other CoEs