—  Become Our Partner: PVO Partnership Value Creation Assessment

Partnership As A Whole

POTENTIAL SOURCES OF PARTNERSHIP VALUE CREATION: COLLABORATIVE ADVANTAGE.

1. Complementarity: Bringing together essential complementary resources

Impact delivered by a complete, workable solution is impossible without the full set of key resources.

2. Systemic transformation: Harmonization/coordination of key system actors' resources/instruments

Transformation of a system leads to a steady-state, solution delivering ongoing value and benefits.

3. Standards: Creating collective legitimacy and knowledge

Developing and disseminating norms, standards, and policies to raise standards / create a level playing field across a whole sector, enabling ongoing impact.

4. Innovation: Combining diverse resources, thinking, approaches

Creating new, more effective approaches, technologies, services, and/or products with the greater impact they will deliver.

5. Holism: Convening holistic range of actors across traditional silos

More workable, context-appropriate, cross-cutting, and implementable approaches increase the quality and breadth of impact.

6. Shared learning: Creating a mechanism for collective learning and capability-building

Raising the level of knowledge, expertise, and capacity widely, leading to more effective practice and greater impact.

7. Shared/reduced risk: Collectively sharing the risk of major investments/implementation

Companies, banks, donors are willing and able to make large investments or loans jointly, or NGOs willing to co-deliver major scale programs, otherwise too risky.

8. Synergy: Aligning programs/resources and cooperating to exploit synergies

Increasing the degree of impact from the input resources available (or achieving the desired outputs with lower input).

9. Scale: Combining delivery capacity across geographies

Taking successful programs, products, and approaches to scaling to multiply the impact.

10. Critical mass: Collectively providing sufficient weight of the action

Combining/aligning/coordinating resources to create the critical mass needed to deliver otherwise impossible outcomes/impact.

11. Connection: Networking, connecting, building relationships

New collaborative action and partnerships by convening multiple organizations, building trust and social capital, and catalyzing collaborative action to deliver additional impact through the means below.

Each Individual Partner

POTENTIAL SOURCES OF PARTNER BENEFIT.

1. Achievement of Strategic Mission

- Direct achievement of strategic objectives

For an NGO this could include delivery of specific programmatic or advocacy objectives, with a direct or indirect impact on intended beneficiaries. For a company, it might be gaining commercial value through new business opportunities, or to ensure the sustainability of a supply chain.

- Contribution along with Theory Of Change towards ultimate objectives

A partnership may contribute only indirectly towards an organization’s mission. For example, the partnership might support the adoption of standards or behaviors that indirectly facilitate or contribute to the achievement of a particular objective. Or it might support an enabling environment or systemic shifts that allow a problem to be tackled more effectively in the future.

2. Organizational Gains

- Leveraging resources

Resource gains can include financial gains in the form of funding or cost savings that can be made (for example through sharing services). Organizations might also receive non-financial material gains such as in-kind contributions of goods, services, or volunteers.

- Intangible/indirect gains that improve the capability for future delivery

Social or political capital; Networking and connections; Increased legitimacy; Reputational benefits; Market advantage; Influence and positioning; Knowledge and capacity building; Innovation in thinking; and Employee morale and retention.

Reference: UN SDG Partnership Guidebook 1.01

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