To facilitate this network evolution, we have simultaneously launched STARNet, STAR Mobile, and STAR Assessment to map relationships, collect and integrate feedback, and evaluate and plan for improved ecosystem coordination. Together these tools are helping develop new collaborative behaviors in which members exchange knowledge and align activities to meet the urgent needs of Colombia's ethnic minority groups. This project comes at an important moment for Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities in the Cauca and Chocó regions, which have suffered disproportionately in the internal conflict and are now mobilizing to influence the peace and post-conflict processes.

Two pilot mappings in Tanzania and Senegal are enhancing Lead's objectives under the Feed the Future Initiative as well as supporting the CNC in its work to coordinate support for the African Union's newly reaffirmed agricultural policy objectives. In June of 2014, the African Union met in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea to propose a targeted series of goals for the coming decade that will support agriculture as a mechanism to improve livelihoods across the continent. Root Change's work engages civil society actors whose contributions are critical to these improvements and teach them skills and techniques to sustain momentum around this work into the future.

The Community LINKs model, a systems approach for developing an SMS platform originally designed to strengthen the local capacity of healthcare providers working with Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Namibia, has guided the development of this new program. The SMS platform will specifically be used by Community Health Workers and other responders to report cases of unaccompanied children to make sure they receive the assistance they require and be placed in one of ChildFund International's Interim Care Centers where they can be kept safe from contracting the disease.

Launched in 2014, SACE is a 5-year project funded by USAID and PIND supporting civil society in advocating for reforms that improve transparency, accountability, and increase inclusive governance in Nigeria. Our approach aims to build the social capital of Nigerian CSOs and coalitions to develop networks of relationships founded on trust, reciprocity, information exchange, and coordination. To facilitate and promote these behaviors we have launched STARNET and STAR Mobile tools to identify strategic partners and improve communication and feedback within the cluster. Our work has been featured in Foreign Policy's reporting on advocacy from civil society for open and responsive governance.

This work equips ChildFund and their partners with statistics backed by organizational network analysis to inform high potential partnerships and coordination. Our ecosystem strengthening approach allows actors at all levels (international, national, and local) to better understand their role in the system of actors supporting children in a given country. With this information in hand, ChildFund and their colleagues are building denser and more diverse networks to develop, share, and scale solutions for children.

Through the LGB process, community members with different points of view come together and collectively map to understand how service delivery works in their VDC. Community members then work together to create a "Joint Action Pact" - a voluntary agreement to act in a certain manner to improve coordination and relationships with each other. This serves as a foundation for building trust between citizens and service providers and promoting collective problem solving and action. The second stage involves data collection on the perceptions of citizens and service providers on the components of service delivery. In the last stage, citizens and service providers come together to discuss the results, identify priority areas, and develop a tangible plan of action to honor their Joint Action Pact for improving service delivery.

The 4-day workshop was designed to train OK Nis in using STARNet to manage and monitor networks as a network administrator, building a unique capacity and creating local ownership of one of the powerful tools Root Change has made part of its signature approach to development.