Partnership Foundations
Having identified who to partner with, you need to lay the groundwork for an effective collaboration. This section will explore the foundational elements that underpin this, to ensure all partners are aligned on the goals and can contribute effectively.
Setting shared goals and objectives
Monitoring process of collaboration
It is important to think from the start about how you will monitor the collaboration and what you will measure. This can help you optimise your shared activity as you go and provide impact evidence for funders, as well as useful insight for other collaborators.
Develop a Theory of Change
Developing a Theory of Change specifically for the collaboration activity helps you think through the need you are trying to collectively address, the changes you want to make and how you plan to achieve these changes in a systematic way. This can help you inform and refine your shared goals and objectives.
Define goal and objectives
Defining a shared goal is one of the most important foundational activities of a partnership. It aligns partners on the project’s focus and boundaries, serving as the basis from which future activity will follow.