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Partnership skills
Knowledge
Professional skills
Personal skills and attitude
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Partnership
• formal relationships between two or more organisations or countries that work together because of having similar aims (Collins’ dictionary),
• or…...
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Partnership
• A friendly but not necessarily formal relationship (american english)
• or………?
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Partnership
• What is partnership(not) for the donor?
• What is it (not) for the recipient government?
• Do we share the term partnership and explain what it means to us?
• Do we really want it?
• Do we act accordingly?
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Partnership
Partnership
• National/local ownership• Partnership• Sound assessment• Participation/empowerment• Gender• Coordination/long-term commitment• (pro-poor) M&E
National (poverty • reduction) issues
Sector issues (disciplinary • and inter-disciplinary)
Cross-cutting issues • (gender, environment)
• Trust• Respect• Goal commitment• Open dialogue• Reciprocity/accountability
• Ability to apply professional knowledge to country specific situation
Ability to build and • maintain relationships
Ability to enhance • ownership, partnership
and leadership
Eradicate extreme poverty/hunger • Universal primary education •
Promote gender equality • Reduce child mortality •
Combat AIDS, malaria and others • Improve maternal health •
Ensure environmental sustainability • Develop global partnership •
MDG's
Principals
Actors
Factors
Porcedures
InstitutionalPolicy
Professional
Personel
PRSPCountry-specific strategies •
Knowledge Skills
Skills Attitude
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Case: transport to go to the cocktail
• Actors: who are going and have an interest to solve the question?
• Factors: availability of transport facilities of different nature/quality; timing/co-ordination mechanisms, etc
• Objective: clear/agreed upon?
• What are relevant skills and attitude?
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Challenge for this training
• Identify, on the basis of our own experiences
• what the most important skills and attitude are
• in order to foster partnerships
• select some to work on!!
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Role play
Meeting, with on the agenda:
• how to proceed to reach agreement on funding the education policy, in line with the PRSP
• Players: minister of finance, minister of education, 2 donors and 1represen-tative of a large NGO
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Role play
Objective
• experience which skills and attitude are important for fostering partnership
• share your own experiences (informally) with other participants
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Role play
• Observers: assignment
1.Mention the skills and attitude you observed with your "counterpart". Do not judge. Refer to the skills and attitude mentioned on the posters (if possible)
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Role play
The actors :
2. How was your attitude towards the other participants in the meeting?
3. Mention one or two of your skills that you used quite well in the meeting.
4. Mention one or two skills you were not able to use although very important.
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Challenge for this training
• Identify, on the basis of our own experiences
• what the most important skills and attitude are
• in order to foster partnerships
• select some to work on!!
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Knowledge, skills and attitude
Knowledge + professional
skills Personal effectiveness
Skills
Effective communication
Attitude
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Partnership
Partnership
• National/local ownership• Partnership• Sound assessment• Participation/empowerment• Gender• Coordination/long-term commitment• (pro-poor) M&E
National (poverty • reduction) issues
Sector issues (disciplinary • and inter-disciplinary)
Cross-cutting issues • (gender, environment)
• Trust• Respect• Goal commitment• Open dialogue• Reciprocity/accountability
• Ability to apply professional knowledge to country specific situation
Ability to build and • maintain relationships
Ability to enhance • ownership, partnership
and leadership
Eradicate extreme poverty/hunger • Universal primary education •
Promote gender equality • Reduce child mortality •
Combat AIDS, malaria and others • Improve maternal health •
Ensure environmental sustainability • Develop global partnership •
MDG's
Principals
Actors
Factors
Porcedures
InstitutionalPolicy
Professional
Personel
PRSPCountry-specific strategies •
Knowledge Skills
Skills Attitude
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Success factors in partnerships
• Knowledge about…• More transparent
government• Gvt increase funding
in priority sector• Basket funding• Decentralisation
• Use common ground as start
• Ongoing dialogue and info sharing
• Donors willing to co-ordinate
• Good rapport between ministries and donors
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Bottlenecks in partnerships
• Insufficient time • Deceptive budgeting• Insufficient district
finance capacity• Staff shortage
embassy/MoF• Inflexible donor
headquarters/parl.• Stakeholder co-ord.
• Hidden agenda’s• Government has
several voices• Partnership too
person dependent• Different value base
gvt-donor• Lack of partnership
competence
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Professional skills
• Languages• East-Africa
knowledge• Practical
• Understand interests
• Analytical skills• Political assessment
capacity • Synthesising
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Personal skills
• Communication (precise,concise,etc)
• Capacity to listen• Team work• Social contacts
• Influencing skills• Negotiating skills• Mediation/
harmonising• Tension reduction
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Attitude and partnership
• Trust• Appreciation and
acknowledgement• Commitment to
government ownership
• Facilitating approach
• Respect• Patience and
perseverance• Sense of humor• Allowing time
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Results from the role play
Personal skills• Building alliances• Risk taking• Confronting • Assertiveness• Divide and rule• Diplomacy
Attitude• Polite/friendly• Open or defensive• Humble or aggressive• Focused ……• Sensitive• Persuasive/convincing
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Learning from each other
1. Select a card you want to talk about
2. Explain why you want to discuss the issue(share experience, wants advice..)
3. Others subscribe to a group(5-8)
4. Explain, explore, analyse, conclude.
5. Present findings in plenary
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PRSP policy cycle
Poverty Reduction Strategy
Planning
Policy implemen-tation
Capacity intervention
Poverty analyses
Evaluation
Monitoring/ Reporting
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Policy cycle, poverty issues
Poverty Reduction Strategy
Planning
Policy implemen-
tation
Capacity intervention
Poverty analyses
Evaluation
Monitoring/ Reporting
Civil society participation
Government procedures
Institutional development
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Actor relations
DonorsCivil society
The poor
Government
Private Sector
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Ownership
DonorsCivil society
The poor
Government
Private sector
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Partnership
DonorsCivil society
The poor
Government
Private sector
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Ownership, Partnership, Leadership
LeadershipLeadership
Civil society Government Donors
Private sector
The poor
PartnershipPartnershipOwnershipOwnership
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Policy cycle, poverty issues, agency issues
Stance to poor governance
HRMSelectionTrainingIncentives
Restructure agency for poverty focus
Simplify disbursement
Monitor agency performance
pressure
Poverty Reduction Strategy
Planning
Policy implemen-
tation
Capacity intervention
Poverty analyses
Evaluation
Monitoring/ Reporting
Civil society participation
Government procedures
Institutional development
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Leadership
DonorsCivil society
The poor
Government
Private sector
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Partnership skills in poverty reduction
Assess commitment
Stance to poor governance
Pro-active informal WB/IMF
contact
Enh. capacityfor informed
dialogue
Agencyleadership
commitmentRestructure agency for
poverty focus
HRM
Policy emergency/shock
countries
Increase help large countries
Simplify disbursement
Coherenceamongdonors
Stop spending pressureMonitor agency
performance
Shared understanding
Informed policy
Poverty focus
Civil society participation
Gender/environment
Empowerment of the poor Realistic/not
overburden
Institutional development
Long-term commitment
Government procedures
Involvement of the poor
Independant evaluation
Poverty analyses
Poverty Reduction
Strategy
Planning
Policy implementa-
tionCapacity
intervention
Monitoring/Reporting
Evaluation
Policy cycle
Poverty issues
Agency issues
Policy cycle
Poverty issues
Agency issues