• The Agricultural Research and Extension Network (AgREN) is based in the Rural Policy and Governance Group (RPGG). It links over 1400 policy-makers, practitioners and researchers in more than 100 countries.
• The Rural Development Forestry Network (RDFN) is based in the Forest Policy and Environment Programme in the Rural Policy and Governance Group (RPGG). It disseminates research information on key issues in tropical forestry to 2300 members in 130 countries, aiming to influence policy and decision-makers in governments and international aid agencies.
• The Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) is based in the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG). The purpose of the Network is to stimulate critical analysis, advance the professional learning and development of those engaged in and around humanitarian action, and improve practice.
• The Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP). Its goal is to improve the quality and accountability of humanitarian assistance programmes by providing a forum for the identification and dissemination of best practice and the building of consensus on common approaches.
• The Pastoral Development Network (PDN) has been revived as a website. A large number of the papers are now online as pdf files. Pastoral development work is based in Rural Policy and Governance Group (RPGG).

Networks Discussion meeting
An internal meeting in February 2005 brought representatives from a number of networks hosted by ODI together with the RAPID team working on the networks study. The meeting focused on:

• the findings from a preliminary literature review of 'networks and policy processes in international development'
  
• ideas for the next stage of the PPA-funded networks study
  
• other issues that the ODI-hosted networks thought would be useful to them

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