Building Strategic Partnershipsthrough the North - South

Partnership

Diana Nambatya Nsubuga

Associate Programme Officer

dnambatya@ppdsec.org

Partners in Population and Development Africa Regional Office

Partnership

• Partnership is a voluntary collaborative agreement between two or more parties in which all participants agree to work together to achieve a common purpose or undertake a specific task and to share risks, responsibilities, resources, competencies and benefits.

Why Partner with Others?• Meaningful partnerships are the foundation

for success.

• Partnerships is what enables many companies to make continuous improvements.

• By sharing with others, you can direct your resources and capabilities to projects you consider most important.

Key Features of Effective Partnerships

• The voluntary nature of partnerships

• Common interest

• The mutual dependency

• Synergy

• Explicit commitment or agreement

• Working together

• Complementary support

• Shared competencies and resources –

• Good communication

• Respect and trust

•THE OPPORTUNITIES

•THE STRATEGIES

•THE CHALLENGES

“When the beat of the Drum changes, so must the step of the Dance”

African Proverb

PARTNERSHIPS

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NETWORKING

Partnerships involve:

• Limited harnessing of productive synergies beyond money, business and investment

Coming together Working together Staying together

“None of us is smarter than all of us” – African Proverb

Food

Fun

Faith

Firm

Finances

(Intergenerational wealth)Friends

Fitness

Benefits of a Partnership:

Family

7FsYou can BE more!You can DO more!You can HAVE more!You can LOVE more!You can LAUGH More!

WHY NORTH-SOUTH PARTNERSHIP

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% of married women in need of contraception by region

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Source: Guttmacher Institute

Trends in TFR

11Source: UN Population Division

Maternal Mortality

12Source: Guttmacher Institute

Women’s Lifetime Risk of Dying from Maternal Causes

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1 in 22

1 in 145

Source: Guttmacher Institute

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Infant Mortality

Source: UN Population Division

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% of Population Aged 15-49 With HIV/AIDS

Source: the Millennium Development Goals Report, 2008

North America, Europe, and high income Asia-

Pacific countries collectively own nearly

90% of world wealth

6% of the adult population

The global rich

• richest 1% owned 40% of global assets in 2000

• richest 2% owned 51%

• richest 5% owned 71%

• richest 10% owned 85%

• bottom half owned barely 1%

A New Mindset?

THE STRATEGIES

NEXT STEPS AND ACTION

COMMITMENTS

“If you don’t have a Plan for the future, the future will have a plan for you!”

2. Regular member Forum

3. Peer breakfast meeting

4. Learning and

Development5. Partneship

day and other events

6. Quarterly Interface

meetings with stakeholders/

Partners•Workshops

•Conferences

7. Online Advisories

1. Investment club softwarePerformance

reporting

Key targets for partnerships.ppt

Male involvement.ppt

80% of your time

Work where you are strongest (in the partnership)

15% of your time

Work where you are learning (Partnership)

5% of your time

Work in other necessary areas

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Thank You!!

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