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Extended Partnership Benefits

Broader, longer-term benefits can arise through the partnership’s positive impact on partner competencies. These in turn enhance their ability to engage elsewhere in beneficial activities – including other partnerships. Such competencies have developed as a result of the Sharshatali coal mining project.

• Good Governance. Improved ability of, and confidence in, the ability of local government to be effective and visible in carrying out its civic duties.
  
  
• Attitudinal Change. Greater receptiveness of businesses and government agencies to NGO-generated knowledge and NGO-led community engagement.
  
  
• Expertise. Growth in expertise of all parties, notably the NGOs involved, to mobilize and focus community participation towards tri-sector programme development and implementation.

The potential for extending benefits beyond the individual partnership is particularly enhanced where the international partners seek to systematically build learning across their operations. Ondeo is keen to share learning from its experience of using partnership mechanisms to meet the needs of the urban poor across its operations globally. To facilitate this, the company has created a unit in their Paris offices to coordinate and facilitate the cross-fertilization of such learning and ideas among the different Ondeo concessions and contract areas.

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