Partnership is of growing importance in development work.
Partnerships among state, private business, and civil society
organizations are increasingly used to deliver the goods and
services required for balanced growth and poverty reduction. Aid
activities have shifted from a project focus to a more strategic
and holistic focus on programs, sectors, and policies. With this
new orientation, partnerships are often essential to deal with the
added complexity and the larger number of agencies, groups, and
stakeholders involved. "The Partnership Dimension" takes on the
issues in a series of chapters divided into two general parts: Part
1, "Foundations of Partnership and Their Evaluation," covers the
types of development partnership and critical issues involved, and
Part 2, "Partnerships in Practice," then illustrates the aspects
and lessons of partnership experience through a series of case
studies. Many of the studies focus on the benefits of partnerships
between institutions of government and civil society. Benefits
include effective knowledge transfer, greater cross-national
cooperation, the creation of new networks and capacity, and
penetration of new markets. Private firms use partnerships with
competitors to learn or reduce risk. There is much to learn about
when, where, and how best to use partnerships, and, in particular,
partnerships that involve less traditional combinations of actors,
such as global partnerships for public policy, country-focused aid
partnerships, private sector partnerships for knowledge creation,
and partnerships for community development involving business,
nongovernmental organizations, and government. Relatively little is
known about the costs and benefits, and the risks and rewards, of
different types of partnerships, or about how best to conduct
partnerships for different purposes. This is why the current volume
in the World Bank series is relevant for both development
practitioners and policy analysts.
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