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Endearing Myths, Enduring Truths: Enabling Partnerships
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Process Method Key To Operational Success

The Global Road Safety Partnership’s approach to partnership development has been to leverage the personal reputations and expertise of international, senior road safety specialists, particularly in convening national road safety networks in the early stages of operationalising partnerships. The Global Partnership for Youth Development’s approach to partnership development has also relied heavily on the engagement of key individuals during the formative stages of the partnerships, drawing particularly on the patronage of national figures with prestige and influence as an aid to partnership convening and resource mobilisation.

The approach to partnership development taken in the Natural Resources Cluster, on the other hand, involved from the outset a more formal process, structured around the principle of building collective commitments to undertake activities through a shared work plan, underpinned by the identification and mutual recognition of both partner-specific and common interests. Individuals’ competencies as facilitators and brokers were certainly relevant, but face-to-face (unfacilitated) consensus building was at times equally, if not more important.

Process Method Key To Operational Success

Endearing Myth

Individual champions are the key to successful partnerships, all the more so when diverse organisations are involved with very different aims and world views.

Enduring Truth

Methods for building partnerships are relatively interchangeable during their initial stages, but as the partnership is operationalised, structured
methodologies become relatively more effective than approaches dependent on individual champions.

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