This presentation discusses evaluative findings on Opportunities and Challenges from Working in Partnership. Partnerships among development actors are more prominent than ever and can have a tremendous impact on growth and development in general.

1. Opportunities
and Challenges
from Working
in Partnership:
Findings from IEG’s Work
on Partnership Programs
and Trust Funds
Nick York
Director, IEGCC

2. Partnerships represent opportunities
Trust Funds
(funding
vehicle)
Partnership
Programs
(shared
governance)
Global and
Regional
Public Good

3. Fragmentation and selectivity
Be selective in what funds and what governing
procedures are set up
Title of Presentation 3

4. Governance and oversight
Establish common standards for transparency, accountability,
and effective governance of partnership programs
Collaborative Inertia
• Difficult to agree on aims
• Finance can dominate
partnering
• Suspicion on other
participants
• Fatigue from always
having to collaborate
• Policies and participating
changing
• Leadership being
imposed/emergent
• Manipulation/political
activity
Collaborative
Advantage
• Must have common points
• Need to share power
• Need to trust
• Drive to partner
• Opportunity to address
immediate complex
problems
• Clear and strong
leadership
Partnership • Spirit of collaboration

5. Linkages to beneficiary countries
Need for explicit agreements on division of labor
“One plan, one budget, one report” enforced and adopted

6. Weak M&E
Insist on clear goals/indicators when new programs are set up
Coordinate on independent evaluation

7. In summary
1. Be selective
2. Establish common standards
3. Need for explicit agreements
4. Enforce “One plan, one budget, one report”
5. Clarify goals and indicators
6. Coordinate on independent evaluation

8. Thank you!
Independent Evaluation Group
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