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What is the Partnership Academy?
Businesses, public agencies and civil society groups are recognizing increasingly that cross-sector collaboration is the key to achieving economic, social and public benefits. For many, acting alone is no longer the preferred option. Cross-sector collaboration provides also a means for:
- making better use of increasingly limited resources, as well as for mobilising new resources;
- building a broader constituency of support for practical action that furthers the public interest;
- defining development challenges and ways of dealing with them;
- reducing risk of failure of important initiatives, which generate costs and benefits for economy, society and environment;
- translating public declarations of commitment to sustainable development into practical reality and sustainable outcomes;
- developing innovative approaches and solutions.
Experience with partnerships in Poland and
internationally suggests that cross-sector collaboration is not easy. Moreover,
badly designed partnerships and inappropriate management can be costly,
generating frustration and conflicts among partners, and most importantly – leading
to failure in relation to achieving desired results.
The Partnership
Academy course is offered
as a response to the growing need for more cost-effective partnerships, which
achieve greater impact. The course draws directly on the experience of
partnership practitioners operating in Poland and internationally. Support
during the course and available after its completion gives participants an
opportunity not only to gain new skills and understanding as to what
constitutes an effective partnership, but also to building greater
self-confidence in their capability to help their own organisations and
partnerships to realise their full potential.
The Partnership Academy draws on the one hand on the methods and approaches developed by The Partnering Initiative over the past 15 years and on the other from Polish partnership experience of the National Network of Partnership Groups and the Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation, which has nurtured its growth and development.
