Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES), Perú

(see also CIES as an example of investing/providing function of networks)

• Provider/investor: resources (grants), research and communications capacity, advice and mentoring
  
• Amplifier: research findings of members, promote the brand, various media and products
  
• Filter: research produced by networks, key research produced by others
  
• Community builder: promotes networked research projects and the development of thematic networks
  

• Secretariat is strong and financially independent; this gives it the freedom to develop and implement communications strategies on behalf of its members without their participation at all steps of the process.
  
• Membership is institutional
  

Foro Salud

• Convener: it brings together regional and thematic fora -each discussion different issues, and includes institutions and individuals from all sectors involved in health issues
  
• Community builder: created a national space for engagement and supports the development and running of regional and thematic fora
• The network has moved from filtering to amplifying to convening
  

• Open membership has given it a truly national reach. The Forum has become through their members in a legitimate actor in the various policy processes.

Foro Educativo

• Community builder: brings together all experts on the education sector, creates other networks, links people in different areas of the economic and political context
  
• Facilitator: it provides its members with strong links to each other and facilitates the debate process
  
• Amplifier: the individual or collective opinions of its members, through various media and at different levels
  

• Individual and highly selective membership has given it a strong political position: legitimacy originates from the credibility of each one of its members; by selecting most possible candidates for key political positions they hope to counteract the negative effects of high turnover in the public sector on long term policies

The Mesa

• Community builder: promoting networked work among CSOs involved in the protection of the elderly, supporting the creation of new networks
  
• Amplifier: take the messages of each member to policymaking fora, other networks (e.g. Foro Salud) and international institutions (e.g. HAI, UN)
  
• Provider/investor: it empowers its members building their capacity to become agents of change
  

• Policy influence through the empowerment of its members. Unlike other networks, the Mesa dedicates most of its resources to build the capacity of its members to become agents of their won change

Participa Peru

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• Amplifier: communications strategy at the national and local level, though different media and with different products
  
• Filter: filter information towards its decentralised partners
  
• Convener: produces different communications products for each different type of audience (national/regional, public/civil society)
  
• Provider/investor: funds, resources, information, capacity building

• Sub-contracting relations between the secretariat and the network's members are considered more efficient than horizontal partnerships. This type of networked project is not designed to help its members carryout the own policy influence work but to allow the project to become the agents of change; members act as implementers at the local level.

CONVEAGRO

• Filter: filters information from the policy context and research community to its members
  
• Amplifier: amplifies the demands of the members and the policy recommendations of the network (based on research) to different policy actors, engages in different media
  
• Community builder: unifies the agriculture and rural sector into one strong and representative body
  

• The network has legitimacy based on its representativeness of the sector: Strength in numbers. It seeks strong unions and associations of producers and traders in the agriculture sector to award the network political leverage with which to introduce its evidence based recommendations

Peru 2021

• Facilitate: guide corporations in the process of developing a corporate social responsibility strategy by directing them to experts and other corporations with positive experiences
  
• Amplifies: the successes of its members and the model of corporate social responsibility developed by the network

• It has developed a strong and easily recognisable brand. This makes them the first point of call for anyone interested in the subject of corporate social responsibility