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Endearing Myths, Enduring Truths: Enabling Partnerships |
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Learning Beyond the WaveInternational experimentation over recent years in partnerships has given rise to an emerging body of advice, tools, and techniques to aid partnership makers and participants. However, much of this remains based on limited practical experience, often drawn from a single case or a few examples, and only a small part is based on trisector partnership experience. BPD’s breadth and depth therefore provides a unique opportunity to draw broader lessons about partnerships to inform future policy and practice. As in any innovation wave, only a few core lessons will prove to be robust enough to inform partnerships in the future. BPD’s core mission has been to ‘learn by doing’ and to communicate these lasting lessons. However, such lessons need to be useful as well as true. Lessons like ‘partnerships are hard’ or ‘commitment is an essential ingredient of successful partnerships’ are certainly true, but their general and obvious nature mean that they do little to improve practice. Useful truths about partnerships are those that are:
These truths are enduring, not because they hold true in every conceivable situation, but because the available evidence suggests that they will stand the test of time. The remainder of this document summarizes and illustrates in brief the most important enduring truths that have emerged at this preliminary stage of BPD’s learning, and in so doing seeks to dispel some of the current wave’s most endearing myths.
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