Professional Documents
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Sabine Germann
WAGGGS working group
Some questions
Do you have partnerships in your MO/NSO ? If not why not ? If you do what is working well / bad for your MO/NSO ? How involved are local groups?
Concepting
Definition of partnerships
Partnerships are voluntary and collaborative relationships in which all parties agree to work together to achieve a common purpose or undertake a specific task and to share risks, responsibilities, resources, competencies and benefits (Kofi A. Annan)
Main characteristic
Reciprocity is a fundamental aspect of any partnership. This implies the mutual sharing of ideas, beliefs and decisions
(WAGGGS Creating peace worldwide)
- Participate in decision-making
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Types of partnershps
- Co-operative - Developmental
- By contribution donation
- Sponsorship - Network
What is a strategy
1. What is the actual situation 2. Coming from the mission and values, developing vision and strategic aims 3. Sitting some strategic objectives 4. Planning to implement the plan 5. Implementation, support, monitoring 6. Formal evaluation, celebration, continuous review
Analysis exercise
SWOT - strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - threats What about your organization?
Generating
A slogan?
Analyse stakeholders
Types of agreement
Informal agreement Memorandum of understanding Partnership agreement Benefits and risks of each of them ? What could be part of a formal agreement?
Coffee break
Partnering
Project development
5 stages of a project 1. Identification 2. Planning 3. Implementation 4. Managing 5. Completion
Working together
Human ressources Team work Communication Conflict resolution Intercultural learning Allow time to build a real relationship!
- Motivate people
- Monitor and evaluate progress
Working together
Getting the best out of the partnership relationship Great Spirit, prevent me from judging a man, not before having walked a mile in his moccasins
(an invocation of the American Indians)
Following through
Closing analysis
Evaluation Sustainability and impact Seeing things differently
Facing a failure
Writing reports
What next?
Recognise accomplishment Celebrating successes Ending, renewing Future planning?
Summary
Follow up
How can we help you ?
Tailored support, consultancy Guest speakers Mentoring, contact system Existing partnerships with World assoc. Tool kits
Now ? Act!
Thank you