Partnerships management: Working with partners
For frontline managers
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Planning Together: How (and How Not) to Engage Stakeholders in Charting a Course
Xavier de Souza Briggs, 2003, Community Problem Solving Network
Why engage stakeholders in planning; who to involve with what roles; informed views; improving what experts know; building a knowledge base and analyzing problems well; feedback; consensus decision-making
(27 pages, pdf 889kb) -
Organizing Stakeholders, Building Movement, Setting the Agenda
Xavier de Souza Briggs, 2003, Community Problem Solving Network
What organizing is and what it does; civic activity to create change; power and influence; negotiation, planning and implementing solutions
(27 pages, pdf 871kb) -
The Partnering Toolbook
Ros Tennyson, 2003, International Business Leaders Forum
Principles, processes, obstacles, resource map, commitment, accountability
(45 pages, pdf 1.6MB) -
Partnership Tools
doc, 216kb
The Partnering Initiative
Word document with 8 tools as forms (to unlock and edit, use the forms toolbar). Tool1: Partner assessment form; Tool 2: Coherence assessment questionnaire; Tool 3: Sample partnering agreement; Tool 4: Partnering roles and skills questionnaire; Tool 5: Guidelines for partnering conversations; Tool 6: Partnership review template; Tool 7: Casestudy template; Tool 8: Communications checklist.
(9 pages, doc 211kb) -
Conducting Key Informant Interviews
Performance Monitoring and Evaluation TIPS #2, 1996, USAID
When to use, advantages and disadvantages, process
(4 pages, pdf 27kb)