The Community of Practice is a collaborative network of CGIAR researchers, practitioners, and partners who use experiential learning games to support learning, decision-making, innovation, and behavior change in agri-food systems.

CGIAR colleagues, researchers, development practitioners, educators, facilitators, partner organizations, and other professionals interested in experiential learning and participatory approaches may join.

Membership provides opportunities to exchange experience, learn from real-world applications, access practical resources, find collaborators, and contribute to stronger experiential learning approaches.

Members can expand professional networks, join knowledge-sharing activities, discover tools and case studies, develop initiatives with peers, and strengthen the impact and scalability of learning interventions.

No. The community welcomes both experienced practitioners and people who are beginning to explore experiential learning games and participatory methods.

Use the Join Community option on the main Community of Practice page and complete the available registration or expression-of-interest process.

The network may include CGIAR centers, universities, research institutes, development organizations, facilitators, educators, project teams, systems practitioners, and external partners.

Activities may include webinars, workshops, peer-learning sessions, discussions, demonstrations, case presentations, resource-sharing events, and collaborative project-development activities.

Meeting frequency depends on the community calendar and working-group activities. Current schedules and announcements can be published in the News Updates section.

Yes. The CoP is designed to support connections among members and enable collaboration on research, publications, project concepts, learning activities, impact assessment, scaling, and fundraising efforts.

Yes. Members are encouraged to contribute relevant tools, games, methods, presentations, learning materials, and documented cases through the community's resource-submission process.

The community aims to build and maintain a repository of useful tools, resources, examples, and good practices that members can discover and use.

The CoP supports development through knowledge exchange, peer feedback, testing and refinement, cross-disciplinary collaboration, documentation of lessons, and connections to relevant projects and expertise.