NEW BPD DOCUMENT - Assessing Partnership Effectiveness: Understanding the Drivers for Success
Multi-stakeholder partnerships are being widely promoted as mechanisms to deliver development goals such as improving access to water and sanitation services for the poor. Whilst we understand more and more about how to structure them, partnership assessment frameworks have largely focussed on tangible project outputs rather than a review of the true effectiveness of the partnership. This document's primary aim is to aid partnership practitioners in answering the question of whether working in collaboration is, or was, the best way to achieve their aims. It focuses on designing a conversation between the partners that allows them to: 1) redress internal imbalances that inhibit effectiveness, and 2) respond to external shifts that present either opportunities or challenges to the partnership. Read the 36-page document here...
Events - BPD Board Meeting & AGM, November 2007
BPD's latest meetings were held in Buenos Aires at the end of November. We are delighted to announce three new Board members have joined us: Allan Cain from Development Workshop in Angola and Gopakumar Thampi from the Public Affairs Centre & Foundation in India as Civil Society Directors and Thomas Van Waeyenberge from AquaFed as Private Sector Director. Any members wishing to read the minutes from either meeting, please contact Tracey in the BPD Secretariat.
News - Season's Greetings!
We would also like to send you all our Season's Greetings and wish you a very Happy New Year! We have a lot planned for 2008 including a number of activities around sanitation and new regional locations for BPD's course on partnership development to look forward to.
Warm regards from the BPD team and all the best for 2008.
BPD Water & Sanitation
BPD Water and Sanitation
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London, SE11 5JD, UK
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7793 4559
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