The core aims that steer this Community of Practice towards meaningful impact and positive change.
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Our aims
The aim of this Community of Practice is to advance knowledge, research and best practice in the field of Social procurement.
We will do this by:
Knowledge sharing
- Sharing ideas and innovations
- Building increased understanding of each other’s challenges
- Problem-solving together
- Getting advice from colleagues in a safe and trusting environment
- Sharing resources
- Learning from what others are doing
- Creating a safe space to experiment and critique/reality-check new ideas (peer-review ideas)
- Round tables/forums on hot topics
- Benchmarking against best practice
Collaboration
- Co-designing new tools (such as an evaluative framework/toolkit)
- Fostering new cross-sector collaborations between industry, government, social and university sectors
Leadership
- Collective thought-leadership
- Setting higher standards
- Developing a common language (clarity on terminology)
- Lobbying for change (we are more powerful as a collective voice than isolated voices)
- Generating new insights and knowledge through collective research (such as a ‘mapping exercise’)
Networking
- Connecting with the thought-leaders
- Growing membership suggests there is potential value and goodwill