Presentación utilizada por Leda Stott durante la presentación de su libro "Partnership and Transformation".
Especializada en alianzas multiactor, Leda Stott ha trabajado internacionalmente para apoyar actividades de investigación, capacitación y evaluación en organismos intergubernamentales, agencias de desarrollo bilaterales y una amplia gama de fundaciones, empresas y organizaciones no gubernamentales. En la actualidad forma parte del panel de expertos en alianzas para la Comisión Europea, imparte clases en varios programas de posgrado de universidades de España y Reino Unido, y es miembro del Centro de Innovación y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM) y de la Partnership Brokers Association (PBA).
2. Background
• Draws on experiences of working with diverse
multi-stakeholder initiatives since mid-1990s
• Seeks to combine academic and practitioner
perspectives
• Explores how far partnership might offer
possibilities for promoting transformation
• Attention to personal and relational aspects of
partnership
3. Understanding partnership
• Different understandings of partnership
influence how it is put into practice
• Can be understood as instrumental (means to
an end) and intrinsic (end in itself)
• Since 1980s emphasis has been on
mechanistic understanding of partnership
We need to ‘recover’ relational aspects of
partnership and integrate them in collaborative
initiatives
Structures
Values
Processes
5. Partnership and transformation
• Transformation is about fundamental change in
systems, structures, values, processes,
behaviours, etc.
• Partnership can promote transformation when
it adds value at individual, organisational and
societal levels and combines both pragmatic
and reflective elements
• Exploration of components of different
partnership arrangements could be used for
review and assessment
• Tactical partnership
Partners focus on a specific time-bound
task
• Targeted partnership
Partners work together to pool ‘right’
resources to meet a particular need/task
• Transversal partnership
Partners seek to maximise outcomes
through diverse horizontal interactions
• Transformational partnership
Partners work to achieve systemic change
with careful attention to relational
connections
6. Transformative participation
• Understanding stakeholders in relation to
participation and power (in different
contexts)
• Transformation and place-based linkages
that connect with policy/macro levels
• Partnership brokering and its role in
enhancing contextual links, reinforcing
inclusion and allowing space for ‘productive
conflict’