Development Partnership

By Carlos Ribeiro – ANOP Portugal

A permanent building process

A practical experience of

Engaging partners.

Complementarily and Networking.

New ways to disseminate products and practices

A summary presentation of the Partnership

15 institutionsA very diversified institutional partnership

with Local Authorities; enterprises associations; development and youth associations (3); entrepreneurship and innovation support structures (2)

Intervention Territory- A region in the North of

Portugal: Entre Douro e Vouga

- Population: 277 000- An important and strategic

region with small business but also medium and big enterprises in cork, paper, steel and shoes

Project purpose

•Promoting networks between SMEs and local institutions

Procura

Serviços

Meios

Funções

Informação geral

Inf. Especializada

Aconselhamento DP

Aconselhamento NET

Acções prospectivas

Acções Prosp. Esp.

Atendedor DP

Conselheiro DP

Atendedor Net

Conselhiero Net

Misto

Portal Net

Intranet

Balcões especializados

Pontos de apoio

INFOVAN

Criação legislação

Oportunidades

Alterações fiscais

Apooio e incentivos

Redes de cooperação

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Partnership Generic activities

• Policy and strategy development• Negotiation and liaison with partners

and stakeholders• Project development and management• Performance management• Financial management and funding

acquisition• Communication and public engagement• Data collection and analysis• Monitoring and evaluation

Problems

• Insufficient knowledge of target-goals • Disengagement/ non appurtenance

feeling• Lack of cooperation between partners• Inadequate resources• Self-centred functioning of partnership,

that ignores users needs• Feeble propensity to learn collectively

and to develop skills along with project implementation

Key skills

• Management skills• To organize meetings • To plan activities• To control financial resources

• Relationship skills• Project team working• To cope with formal and informal situations • To promote consensus

• Researching skills• Bibliography researching disposal• To coordinate field-working• To systematize debates and moments of

thematic reflection

Specific project skills

• Communication skills• To organize debates and divulgation;• To edit key documentation;• To set up information in electronic devices

(web, e-mail)web, e-mail)

• Cooperation Skills• To negotiate target goals and achievements• Knowledge, techniques and tools transfers • Co-learning engagement

First group of activities

• Bringing people and institutions closer

• Favouring mutual knowledge• Promoting informal relationships• Opening new channels of

communication

Shared Portfolio Activities to built the Partnership Portfolio

Cross – interviews; individual members• Explore: what links in Internet show about

partners• Skills show-room: a gallery of key skills;

dynamic presentation and debateOutput• Puzzle of key skills for the project and the

further actions

Who are we and what skills can we bring to the project….?

Partnership development

•Investment in mutual knowledge and relationship

Second group of activities

• Quality and networking

Quality management game

• Projects competition between groups composed by every members of the partnership

• Definition of an action plan and the conditions for installing and functioning of a quality system.

• Making of a Guide of Collective SkillsOutput• Involvement and collective definition of

the partnership development goals

What kind of services can we develop in partnership in an efficient basis, with effectiveness and insuring quality criteria?

A partnership oriented to take action

Third group of activities

• Networking

Communication and interaction

• Web site with shared back-office• Group assembly to develop web sites skills• Interactive platform of documents and

communication.• A simulator of possible responses to some

common answers of network users, to improve attending.

• Group assembly in an all-day simulator testing and improvement activities.

• Output• Effectiveness and efficiency in

communication processes

All-day simulator testing and improvement activities

Are we prepared to respond in a synchronized way to answers from the network users?

www.informarlocal.pt

Instalação pedreira

área

Temas críticos

Temas complementares

HST

Sinaléticas

ambiente

Poluição Solos

Resposta

Atend. Geral

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Meios

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SIR

Sistema Integrado de Resposta

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Forth group of activities

• Dissemination • To make the mainstream of the

network in a regional level

Interactive Network Program• Enlarged and specialized Partnership • Inclusion of Incorporators - Enterprise

Associations Network and Social City Council Network

• Goal: To promote social and enterprises network’s development

• To share experience and adapt networking models and tools

Output• Enlargement of initial network• To improve networking support devices

Informar

local

Experiên-cias

sistematização

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empresarial

social

Estruturar

Rede

Ciclo

Inicial de

implementação

sistematização

sistematização

Sistematização

final

Preparação e experimentação

em contexto Formativo

(formação-acção)

Acompanhamento e avaliação

Could the Informar Local Network be adopted by the social and entrepreneurial networks?

Fifth group of activities

• To promote really existing communities of practice

The new world of Web2•Debate groups•The wiki –in wikispace•Exchange of documents and photos•To share links and organizing feed •Cooperative work in documents and projects OutputGroupings and interactions for personal and professional interests Systematic and methodical knowledge production concerning common interest subjectsOrganized Partnerships for Knowledge (gains) and not only for the project (pragmatism)

• The development partnerships should, by complementarily to its structural goals, incorporate self-development monitorship programs.

• The modalities of institutional and individual interaction should cause ruptures in existing habits and assume a progressive development character, if exhaustively programmed and firmly overviewed.

• The investment in the dynamization of Partnership development should focus priory in relationship and in logistics, namely in tools that promote the cooperative work and assistance between the network members.

Conclusions

Carlos Valentim Ribeirocarlosvribeiro@netvisao.pt

www.anop.com.pt