Establishing Partnerships
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Glossary
Advisory Partnership — Overseeing specific plans, acting in an advisory capacity to ensure strategies/operational policies and plans are achieved.
Aims — What you intend to do/accomplish during the course of the partnership.
Business plan — Sets out the operational and administrative aspects of the organization, as well as financial forecasts and supporting budgetary information. It will set out the broad developmental needs identified in a (long term) strategy and specify how these needs will be assessed and met.
Contractual Partnership — Partners working together to jointly purchase/commission development on an operational basis.
Goals — The desired outcome; long term, linking to targets.
Goals Based Coalition/Network Alliance — Partners working together to achieve agreed upon goals, share information and/or influence policy and strategy.
Intermediary — Something that exists between two persons or things, or someone who acts as an agent or mediator between persons or things. An intermediary organization, then, exists between the people with the resources and the organizations needing the resources—namely finances or information.
Joint Venture Partnership — Partners working together to set up, implement or manage.
Objectives — How you achieve your aims.
Principles — Fundamental rules, for example, on which services will be delivered. Standards should be based on outlined principles.
Project Based Partnership — Partners working together to monitor a specific project.
Quality — A degree of excellence. Approaches to quality should cover all customers/donors/providers, both internal and external.
Strategic Partnership — Partners working together to set out a specific joint strategy plan, with no specific operational role.
Strategy — Sets out the overall plan and direction. Also, the development of strategic plans are phased elements in the planning processes.
Targets — Targets are the focus of short-term measures taken to achieve long-term goals.
Values — Beliefs, standards.
Vision — Concepts, hopes; why an organization wants to do something.
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