This presentation focuses on the critical steps and processes in developing partnerships for health promotion programs. It integrates theory, research and best practices into a strategic approach designed to increase the effectiveness of partnerships as public health strategy. This slideshow was originally narrated and presented at the Health Promotion Conference held at Haifa University School of Public Health, 2015. Sorry the audio track did not upload, but the slides will carry the story.
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Partnerships to inform, support and enhance health promotion programs
1. Partnership to
Inform, Support
and Enhance
Health Promotion
Programs
R. Craig Lefebvre, PhD
Health Promotion Conference
Haifa University School of
Public Health
25 February 2015
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2. Roadmap to Partnerships
• Being prepared
• The social marketing context
• Research with partners (the neglected priority
group)
• The ups and downs of partnerships
• Expected outcomes for successful ones
• Partnerships are social systems
• Six principles for success in your partnership efforts
3. Are You Ready for a
Partnership?
• Clarity of purpose
• Commitment to use the process to inform your
actions
• Adequate funding and staff to support the process
• Appropriate timing in relation to decisions
• Focus on implementation
• Commitment to self-assessment and learning from
experience.
5. The Context for
Partnerships
• Stages of the project life-cycle (needs assessment,
planning, implementation, evaluation)
• Project type – disease or behavior focus (heart
disease, obesity), setting oriented (schools,
worksites) and demographics of priority group
(adolescents, elderly, woman, household income)
• Directional dynamics – community-based or
participatory models, imposed by funder
6. Source: Baron-Epel, O., Drach-Zahavy, A., & Peleg, H. (2003). Health promotion partnerships in Israel:
motives, enhancing and inhibiting factors, and modes of structure. Health Promotion International;
18:15-23.
7. Partners: A Social
Marketing Context
• Set behavioral objectives that are relevant and
achievable by people.
• Identify, understand and develop insights into priority
groups (segments) of people.
• Develop products, services and messages that
encourage and support desired behavior changes.
• Address the costs and benefits for changing (or not
changing) their current behaviors.
• Increase the opportunities and access for people to
engage in the desired behaviors.
• Promote these behaviors, their benefits and
opportunities at times, places and states-of-mind when
people are most likely to attend and engage in them.
8. Develop products, services and messages that
encourage and support desired behavior changes.
• Technology solutions
• Service providers
9. Address the costs and benefits for changing (or not
changing) their current behaviors.
• Public water utilities
• Weight loss programs
10. Increase the opportunities and access for people to
engage in the desired behaviors.
• Commercial building
owners
• Owners of parking
facilities
11. Promote these behaviors, their benefits when
people are most likely to engage in them.
• Employee unions
• Business associations
• Farm supply companies
12. Partners: What They Want
• Increase the number of partners and stakeholders in
order to expand distribution of products, services and
messages.
• Provide marketing assistance.
• Conduct strategy checks to ensure that the partners’
activities are consistent with your brand.
• Define each organization’s role more clearly.
• Develop a process for communication among partners.
• Resolve the incongruence between the levels and
amount of staff support from various partners so that
partners share equally in the work and responsibilities.
Lefebvre RC. Partnerships for social marketing programs: An example from the National
Bone Health Campaign. Social Marketing Quarterly, 2006; 12:41-54.
13. What Qualities Do You Look
for in Potential Partners?
• Trust
• Their credibility with the
audience
• Capability to raise
awareness of priority group
about the target behavior
• Ability to commit to
partnerships
• Potential contribution
toward sustainability
• Similar missions
• Mutually beneficial
opportunities
• To fill a gap that exists within
their own organization or
program
• Aspire to one larger goal
• Ability to bring resources to
the table
• Access to other partners
• Honest, open
communication on goals
and responsibilities
• Access to decision-makers
within the organization
• Cultural competence
• Capabilities to disseminate
information to target
audience(s).
• Collaborate on the
development of messages
and materials
Lefebvre RC. Partnerships for social marketing programs: An example from the National
Bone Health Campaign. Social Marketing Quarterly, 2006; 12:41-54.
14. What Leads to a Win-Win
Partnership?
• Honest and upfront about goals and objectives.
• Credibility.
• Commitment.
• Alignment of audience, desired behavior and
collaborators.
• Consistency.
• Clear about expectations.
• See a return on investment (in some cases, not
necessarily monetary).
• Feedback on results and whether the campaign
accomplished its goals.
Lefebvre RC. Partnerships for social marketing programs: An example from the National
Bone Health Campaign. Social Marketing Quarterly, 2006; 12:41-54.
15. The Downsides of
Partnerships
• Loss of control.
• ‘‘You are the company you
keep.’’
• Partnerships depend on personal
relationships; staff turnover can
work against partnership
development.
• You cannot guarantee a long-
term partnership with employee
and board turnover of some
groups.
• Organizational priorities may shift
over time – especially with staff
turnover at various levels of
participating organizations.
• It’s important to meet
expectations on both sides of the
partnership.
• There is a learning curve to
figure out how each partner
works.
• Some organizations may not
have infrastructure in place
for a successful partnership.
• Identifying the ‘‘win-win’’ is
hard because some partners
may have hidden agendas.
• Often times it’s difficult and
time consuming to identify
the right contact.
• The ‘‘languages’’ of the
organizations may be
different – government vs.
non-profit vs. corporate – and
they need to be addressed.
Lefebvre RC. Partnerships for social marketing programs: An example from the National
Bone Health Campaign. Social Marketing Quarterly, 2006; 12:41-54.
16. Source: Baron-Epel, O., Drach-Zahavy, A., & Peleg, H. (2003). Health promotion partnerships in Israel:
motives, enhancing and inhibiting factors, and modes of structure. Health Promotion International;
18:15-23.
17. Lessons Learned from Other
Partnerships
• Review data and literature from other stakeholders.
• Review/address branding issues.
• Partners bring insights into priority groups, desired
behaviors, incentives and costs, and
distribution/promotion efforts.
• Spokespeople provided by credible partners enhance
media coverage of an issue.
• Release of data from participating organizations about
the campaign’s progress generates better coverage.
• Various government campaigns on related or
overlapping subject areas, priority groups and behaviors
need to be aligned so that all campaigns can benefit
from one another’s efforts.
Lefebvre RC. Partnerships for social marketing programs: An example from the National
Bone Health Campaign. Social Marketing Quarterly, 2006; 12:41-54.
18. Source: Donchin, M., Shemesh, A.A., Horowitz, P. & Daoud, N. (2006). Implementation of the
Healthy Cities' principles and strategies: an evaluation of the Israel Healthy Cities Network. Health
Promotion International; 21:266-273.
19. How Does a Partnership
Add Value for the Customer?
• Increased visibility of the campaign
• Saturation of the market (ubiquity)
• Make the campaign more credible
• Have more tools for the audience to use and
achieve behavior change
• Create more opportunities to engage in desired
behaviors
• More options to overcome barriers and costs
Lefebvre RC. Partnerships for social marketing programs: An example from the National
Bone Health Campaign. Social Marketing Quarterly, 2006; 12:41-54.
20. Partnerships Are Social
Systems
• New partnerships or coalitions require some degree of
network density and centralization to get planning
moving forward.
• Too much network density indicates that connections
are directed within the group and do not provide
sufficient pathways for information and behaviors to
come from outside the group.
• Too much density leaves a coalition ineffective at
mobilizing the resources it needs to adopt evidence-
based prevention programs.
• Density may become a liability, because it insulates the
coalition from new ideas or access to new resources.
Valente, T.W., Chou, C.P. and Pentz, M.A. (2007) Community coalition networks as systems:
Effects of network change on adoption of evidence-based prevention. American Journal of
Public Health, 97: 880-886.
21. Six Principles for Success
• Visualize contributions and success.
• Initial commitment and periodic reassessments to
the vision and the strategy.
• Adapt campaign needs and expectations to a
partner organization’s capacities and resources.
• Create interactions outside of the partnership
relationship.
• Devote time and effort to marketing support.
• Demonstrate and publicize successes to partners,
other stakeholders and the priority audiences.
Lefebvre RC. Partnerships for social marketing programs: An example from the National
Bone Health Campaign. Social Marketing Quarterly, 2006; 12:41-54.
Editor's Notes
he research population comprised 150 health promotion professionals working in the different organizations dealing with health in Israel, such as health care services (governmental and non-governmental) and non-profit organizations. The list of professionals working in the field was provided by the Israeli Health Promotion and Health Education Association. These professionals received the questionnaire by mail and were asked to return it the same way. A total of 52 respondents completed the questionnaire and sent it back, giving a response rate of 34%. The non-respondents were characterized by a high proportion of professionals not working in collaborations; they did not perceive the questionnaire as relevant to their experience.
From interviews and focus groups with stakeholders and partners on the National Bone Health Campaign -
Lefebvre RC. Partnerships for social marketing programs: An example from the National Bone Health Campaign. Social Marketing Quarterly, 2006;12:41-54.
All 36 coordinators or contact persons enrolled in the Healthy Cities network during 2003 were contacted both by mail and at the annual business meeting and were encouraged to take part in the study; 18 coordinators complied and completed a questionnaire with the aid of key informants in the municipality. Coordinators were approached in person or by phone to assure completion of the questionnaire. The other 18 non-respondent cities, which had minimal contact with the network, were contacted in order to verify their reasons for non-responding and their status in the network. Eleven of them did not appoint a coordinator and had no health promoting activities. In the other seven cities, which were active in the past, there was no political support in the last 2 years; therefore, they suspended the Healthy City activities.
The questionnaire was designed based on the MARI's (Monitoring Accountability Reporting Impact assessment) framework (De Leeuw, 1999b). It was composed of both open-ended and closed questions and covers six dimensions of the principles and strategies of the Healthy Cities work:
Equity policy and political support.
Management.
Health promotion programs and activities in the city.
Community participation.
Intersectoral partnerships
Environmental protection activities
There was also a checklist of participation in five network activities. Associations of these additional measures with the six dimensions of the city performance were analyzed.
Partners need to visualize how their participation makes a unique contribution to the overall campaign and the success of their organization.
There needs to be both an initial commitment and a periodic reassessment of that commitment to participation and action by both key decision makers and staff to the vision and the strategy of the NBHC.
Demonstrate flexibility to adapt campaign needs and expectations to a partner organization’s capacities and resources.
Create opportunities that allow for organizations to interact with each other outside of the partnership relationship.
Devote time and effort towards developing tools and technical assistance support (marketing was explicitly mentioned) for partners to more fully engage in the campaign’s activities.
Demonstrate and publicize successes to partners, other stakeholders and the priority audiences.