Network Development

How the Network was set up

The Network has been developed by an Advisory Group comprising of a range of organisations with an interest in the HCV concept and the development of the HCV Resource Network. An initial meeting of this group was held on January 30-31, 2006. Click here to see an outline of the agenda for this meeting

The purpose of the original convening meeting was to:

• discuss and further develop the Resource Network concept
• to convene a Steering Group to oversee the Network

Click here to download a summary of the main outcomes of the meeting 

Click here for a list of the organisations involved in this meeting

As a result of the meeting, the participants proposed that the next 12-18 months of the project be considered as a construction phase, and that the group themselves be regarded as a temporary body to advise on the assembly of the network. It was agreed that a final steering group would only be convened once this initial stage had been completed, and the project had entered the “implementation phase”. The group suggested the construction phase of the project should be viewed as being facilitated by ProForest, overseen by this "Advisory Group" and funded by Ikea, the WWF-World Bank Alliance and Tetra Pak. Furthermore, it was agreed by the group that primary activities for the construction phase would be to:

• To conduct “user-need” analyses through discussions and a structured questionnaire
• To collect input from all interested parties to the content of the charter

Public Consultation

Following the meeting, a web-based consulatation was conducted in English, French, Bahasa Indonesia & Russian,  a summary of the responses from this process may be downloaded here. For more details of the consulation you may also look at tables of all the quantitative results, and a record of all comments received.