Presentation by Brian Smith at the Rural SuDS Natural Flood Management Conference, Wednesday 25th January 2017

1. Working in Partnership: Workshop
Briefing
Brian Smith
Environment Agency
NFM Adviser

2. A definition:
Partnership is a collaborative relationship
between two or more parties based on trust,
equality and mutual understanding for the
achievement of a specified goal.

3. Although an understanding of partnership is
taken for granted,
there is little clarity about the concept.

4. A single, unambiguous definition of partnership
working does not exist.
In the practice many identify partnership as:
an umbrella term embracing different complex
relationships.

5. “The number of runs added by a pair of
batsmen before one of them is dismissed or
the innings ends” (OED)

6. We are going to explore a series of themes around the
concept of working in partnership:
What does working in partnership mean to you?
What barriers are there to building an effective partnership?
What risks are there in partnership working?
What benefits are there to partnership working?

7. A. What are the key aspect(s) raised in the workshop that you want to promote/encourage?
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B. What is/are the key barriers to overcome? How do you recommend that they are overcome them?
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C. The motion to put to the conference plenary is:
1. This conference agrees that ….
2. This conference agrees that ….