Partnership skills

1. Partnership skills Knowledge Professional skills Personal skills and attitude 2018006.ppt

2. Partnership • formal relationships between two or more organisations or countries that work together because of having similar aims (Collins’ dictionary), • or…... 2018006.ppt

3. Partnership • A friendly but not necessarily formal relationship (american english) • or………? 2018006.ppt

4. 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? 2018006.ppt

5. Partnership 2018006.ppt

6. 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? 2018006.ppt

7. 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!! 2018006.ppt

8. 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 2018006.ppt

9. Role play Objective • experience which skills and attitude are important for fostering partnership • share your own experiences (informally) with other participants 2018006.ppt

10. 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) 2018006.ppt

11. 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. 2018006.ppt

12. 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!! 2018006.ppt

13. Knowledge, skills and attitude Knowledge + professional skills Effective communication Personal effectiveness Skills Attitude 2018006.ppt

14. Partnership 2018006.ppt

15. 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 Success factors in partnerships 2018006.ppt

16. 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 Bottlenecks in partnerships 2018006.ppt

17. Languages East-Africa knowledge Practical Understand interests Analytical skills Political assessment capacity Synthesising Professional skills 2018006.ppt

18. Communication (precise,concise,etc) Capacity to listen Team work Social contacts Influencing skills Negotiating skills Mediation/ harmonising Tension reduction Personal skills 2018006.ppt

19. Trust Appreciation and acknowledgement Commitment to government ownership Facilitating approach Respect Patience and perseverance Sense of humor Allowing time Attitude and partnership 2018006.ppt

20. 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 Results from the role play 2018006.ppt

21. 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 2018006.ppt

22. Poverty Reduction Strategy Planning Poverty analyses Capacity intervention Policy implemen-tation Monitoring/ Reporting Evaluation PRSP policy cycle Policy cycle 2018006.ppt

23. Civil society participation Poverty Reduction Strategy Planning Institutional development Poverty analyses Capacity intervention Policy implemen-tation Monitoring/ Reporting Evaluation Government procedures Policy cycle Poverty issues Policy cycle, poverty issues 2018006.ppt

24. Actor relations Civil society Donors Government Private Sector The poor 2018006.ppt

25. Ownership Civil society Donors Government Ownership Private sector The poor 2018006.ppt

26. Partnership Civil society Donors Government Partnership Private sector The poor 2018006.ppt

27. Ownership, Partnership, Leadership 2018006.ppt

28. Civil society participation Poverty Reduction Strategy Planning Institutional development Poverty analyses Capacity intervention Policy implemen-tation Monitoring/ Reporting Evaluation Government procedures Policy cycle Policy cycle, poverty issues, agency issues Stance to poor governance Restructure agency for poverty focus HRM Selection Training Incentives Simplify disbursement Poverty issues Monitor agency performance pressure Agency issues 2018006.ppt

29. Leadership Leadership Civil society Donors Government Private sector The poor 2018006.ppt

30. Partnership skills in poverty reduction 2018006.ppt