Development
Partnership
A permanent building process
By Carlos Ribeiro – ANOP Portugal
A practical experience of
Engaging partners.
Complementarily and Networking.
New ways to disseminate products and practices
A summary presentation of the Partnership
15 institutions
A very diversified institutional partnership
with Local Authorities; enterprises
associations; development and youth
associations (3); entrepreneurship and
innovation support structures (2)
Intervention Territory
- A region in the North of Portugal:
Entre Douro e Vouga
- Population: 277 000
- An important and strategic region
with small business but also
medium and big enterprises in
cork, paper, steel and shoes
Project purpose
•Promoting networks between SMEs and local
institutions
Serviços
Funções
Informação geral
Atendedor DP
Inf. Especializada
Conselheiro DP
M
Atendedor Net
Aconselhamento
DP
Conselhiero
Net
Aconselhamento
NET
Misto
Acções
prospectivas
Acções Prosp.
Esp.
AT
E
Procura
Meios
Portal Net
Criação
legislação
Intranet
Oportunidades
Balcões
especializados
Pontos de apoio
INFOVAN
AD
Alterações
fiscais
Apooio e
incentivos
Redes de
cooperação
Anop/CR/Março04/inforloca
Partnership Generic activities
• Policy and strategy development
• Negotiation and liaison with partners and
stakeholders
• Project development and management
• Performance management
• Financial management and funding
acquisition
• Communication and public engagement
• Data collection and analysis
• Monitoring and evaluation
Problems
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Insufficient knowledge of target-goals
Disengagement/ non appurtenance feeling
Lack of cooperation between partners
Inadequate resources
Self-centred functioning of partnership, that
ignores users needs
• Feeble propensity to learn collectively and to
develop skills along with project
implementation
Key skills
• Management skills
• To organize meetings
• To plan activities
• To control financial resources
• Relationship skills
• Project team working
• To cope with formal and informal situations
• To promote consensus
• Researching skills
• Bibliography researching disposal
• To coordinate field-working
• To systematize debates and moments of thematic
reflection
Specific project skills
• Communication skills
• To organize debates and divulgation;
• To edit key documentation;
• To set up information in electronic devices (web, email)web, e-mail)
• Cooperation Skills
• To negotiate target goals and achievements
• Knowledge, techniques and tools transfers
• Co-learning engagement
First group of activities
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Bringing people and institutions closer
Favouring mutual knowledge
Promoting informal relationships
Opening new channels of communication
Shared Portfolio
Activities to built the
Partnership Portfolio
Cross – interviews; individual members
• Explore: what links in Internet show about
partners
• Skills show-room: a gallery of key skills;
dynamic presentation and debate
Output
• Puzzle of key skills for the project and the
further actions
Who are we and what
skills can we bring to
the project….?
Partnership development
•Investment in mutual knowledge
and relationship
Second group of activities
• Quality and networking
Quality management game
• Projects competition between groups
composed by every members of the partnership
• Definition of an action plan and the conditions
for installing and functioning of a quality
system.
• Making of a Guide of Collective Skills
Output
• Involvement and collective definition of the
partnership development goals
What kind of services
can we develop in
partnership in an
efficient basis, with
effectiveness and
insuring quality criteria?
A partnership oriented to take action
Third group of activities
• Networking
Communication and interaction
• Web site with shared back-office
• Group assembly to develop web sites skills
• Interactive platform of documents and
communication.
• A simulator of possible responses to some common
answers of network users, to improve attending.
• Group assembly in an all-day simulator testing and
improvement activities.
• Output
• Effectiveness and efficiency in communication
processes
All-day simulator testing
and improvement activities
Are we prepared to
respond in a
synchronized way to
answers from the
network users?
www.informarlocal.pt
Instalação pedreira
área
ambiente
Temas críticos
Poluição Solos
Temas
complementares
Resposta
Atend. Geral
Acons. geral
Entidade
pivot
Meios
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HST
Entidades
Sinaléticas
Complementares
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SIR
Anop/ CR/ inforloca/ março 2004
Meios
Sistema Integrado de
Resposta
Meios
Forth group of activities
• Dissemination
• To make the mainstream of the network in
a regional level
Interactive Network Program
• Enlarged and specialized Partnership
• Inclusion of Incorporators - Enterprise
Associations Network and Social City Council
Network
• Goal: To promote social and enterprises
network’s development
• To share experience and adapt networking
models and tools
Output
• Enlargement of initial network
• To improve networking support devices
1
Informar
Estruturar
local
Rede
empresarial
2
Experiên
-cias
social
3
sistema
tização
Ciclo
Inicial de
sistema
tização
implementação
Preparação e
experimentação
em contexto
Formativo
(formação-acção)
Acompanhamento e
avaliação
sistema
tização
Sistematização
final
Could the Informar Local Network be
adopted by the social and
entrepreneurial networks?
Fifth group of activities
• To promote really existing
communities of practice
The new world of Web2
•Debate groups
•The wiki –in wikispace
•Exchange of documents and photos
•To share links and organizing feed
•Cooperative work in documents and projects
Output
Groupings and interactions for personal and
professional interests
Systematic and methodical knowledge production
concerning common interest subjects
Organized Partnerships for Knowledge (gains) and not
only for the project (pragmatism)
Conclusions
• The development partnerships should, by
complementarily to its structural goals, incorporate
self-development monitorship programs.
• The modalities of institutional and individual
interaction should cause ruptures in existing habits
and assume a progressive development character, if
exhaustively programmed and firmly overviewed.
• The investment in the dynamization of Partnership
development should focus priory in relationship and
in logistics, namely in tools that promote the
cooperative work and assistance between the
network members.
Carlos Valentim Ribeiro
[email protected]
www.anop.com.pt