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Towards a typology of more effective evaluation and implementation of cross-sector partnerships
Hamann, Ralph Boulogne, Fleur
Hamann, Ralph
Boulogne, Fleur
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Considering the ongoing debate about the effectiveness and accountability of cross-sector partnerships, this paper suggests a typology of partnerships for the purpose of developing more nuanced evaluation criteria and implementation guidelines. The typology gives rise to two overarching partnership types: implementation partnerships, which are focused on achieving relatively clearly defined, measurable objectives and have correspondingly formal institutional arrangements, and innovation and rule-setting partnerships, which are comparatively informal collaboration arrangements that seek to address more open-ended social problems. The paper also points to an emerging organisational form of “bifurcated partnerships”, which explicitly include both an overarching, strategic negotiation forum for the purpose of innovation and rule-setting, as well as more task-oriented, formal implementation partnerships. In the final section, the paper discusses an evaluation framework based on effectiveness and accountability, arguing that these criteria and their various elements apply to all kinds of partnerships, but they do so in different ways and with varying degrees of emphasis depending on the partnership type. The paper is focused on developing a theoretical framework, though partnership examples from South Africa are used for illustration purposes. The conference presentation in July will include more empirical material from case studies currently under development.
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2008
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