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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