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Discussion paper

Fair Company-Community Partnerships in Palm Oil Development

21/05/2014

2 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Palm oil production can lead to greenhouse gas emissions, land grabs and exploitation. This paper points to four key principles for designing partnerships between communities and companies in palm oil that can benefit both: freedom of choice, accountability, improvement and respect for rights (FAIR). These principles for FAIR partnerships are intended to prompt a rethink […]

Journal article

Is this a partnership or a relationship? Concern Worldwide maps the difference

01/08/2010

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Despite its adoption of a partnership approach within its countries of operation, Concern Worldwide has struggled to match its definition of partnership with the range of relationships in which it actually engages on the ground. A relationship-mapping diagram conceived during its Partnership Policy formulation workshop has now helped to bridge this gap between theory and […]

Briefing note

Busan in a Nutshell: What next for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation?

02/10/2012

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, established in Busan, South Korea in 2011, set the international standard on the principles of effective aid and good development to which all development actors should subscribe. These principles include: country leadership and ownership of development strategies; a focus on results that matter to the poor in developing […]

Research report

Missed Again: Making space for partnership in the typhoon Haiyan response

08/12/2014

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This study is the second output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-government organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The report builds on findings from the 2013 report and provides evidence to demonstrate the extent to which partnership working took place in response to typhoon Haiyan […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Putting Oxfam’s Partnership Principles into Practice

02/06/2016

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam works with others, taking action to achieve common goals for overcoming poverty and injustice. Its aim is to achieve consistently good quality and honest relationships with all of its partners. Good partnerships are based on paying attention to ways of working and maximizing impact by delivering good financial and programme management. This guideline has […]

Journal article

Aid partnership in the Bougainville conflict: the case of a local women’s NGO and its donors

01/06/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article documents lessons learned from a study of aid partnerships in post-conflict development and peace building in Bougainville. It examines how donor agencies, in this case the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), contributed to the successes and failures of the Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency (LNWDA). […]

Journal article

The ‘Economy of Communion’: a case study of business and civil society in partnership for change

01/08/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The role of Northern-based civil society organisations has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. In particular, their principal role as ‘redistributive’ agencies working in the South has come under criticism, leading them to seek new ways of defining their part in eradicating poverty. One widely adopted strategy has been an increasing emphasis on advocacy for […]

Journal article

Achieving Education for All through public-private partnerships?

01/06/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Education is commonly regarded as a state responsibility. Non-state provision is, however, increasingly prevalent in many developing countries in response to the inaccessibility and poor quality of state provision. Its unplanned growth has led to proposals for developing ‘public-private partnerships’. However, as a number of the papers in this collection indicate, such partnerships are insufficiently […]

Journal article

Mediators or partners? Practitioner perspectives on partnership

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Partnership has become a key word in the jargon of international development. This article presents the results of research into the perspectives of Cambodian and Filipino NGO workers on their funding relationships. Largely confirming the negative literature about partnership, practitioners generally expressed a view that their relationships with funders are not consistent with the rhetoric […]

Briefing paper

Partnership or Power Play? How Europe should bring development into its trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries

21/04/2008

4 documents

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Trade policy

Overview

Europe is negotiating new trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries. A true partnership in trade could radically transform the lives of one-third of all people living in poverty, providing farmers and small businesses with sustainable incomes and workers with decent jobs. But Europe is choosing power politics over partnership. The deals currently […]

Showing 321 matching results from Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Fair Company-Community Partnerships in Palm Oil Development

21/05/2014

2 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Palm oil production can lead to greenhouse gas emissions, land grabs and exploitation. This paper points to four key principles for designing partnerships between communities and companies in palm oil that can benefit both: freedom of choice, accountability, improvement and respect for rights (FAIR). These principles for FAIR partnerships are intended to prompt a rethink […]

Journal article

Is this a partnership or a relationship? Concern Worldwide maps the difference

01/08/2010

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Despite its adoption of a partnership approach within its countries of operation, Concern Worldwide has struggled to match its definition of partnership with the range of relationships in which it actually engages on the ground. A relationship-mapping diagram conceived during its Partnership Policy formulation workshop has now helped to bridge this gap between theory and […]

Briefing note

Busan in a Nutshell: What next for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation?

02/10/2012

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, established in Busan, South Korea in 2011, set the international standard on the principles of effective aid and good development to which all development actors should subscribe. These principles include: country leadership and ownership of development strategies; a focus on results that matter to the poor in developing […]

Research report

Missed Again: Making space for partnership in the typhoon Haiyan response

08/12/2014

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This study is the second output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-government organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The report builds on findings from the 2013 report and provides evidence to demonstrate the extent to which partnership working took place in response to typhoon Haiyan […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Putting Oxfam’s Partnership Principles into Practice

02/06/2016

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam works with others, taking action to achieve common goals for overcoming poverty and injustice. Its aim is to achieve consistently good quality and honest relationships with all of its partners. Good partnerships are based on paying attention to ways of working and maximizing impact by delivering good financial and programme management. This guideline has […]

Journal article

Aid partnership in the Bougainville conflict: the case of a local women’s NGO and its donors

01/06/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article documents lessons learned from a study of aid partnerships in post-conflict development and peace building in Bougainville. It examines how donor agencies, in this case the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), contributed to the successes and failures of the Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency (LNWDA). […]

Journal article

The ‘Economy of Communion’: a case study of business and civil society in partnership for change

01/08/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The role of Northern-based civil society organisations has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. In particular, their principal role as ‘redistributive’ agencies working in the South has come under criticism, leading them to seek new ways of defining their part in eradicating poverty. One widely adopted strategy has been an increasing emphasis on advocacy for […]

Journal article

Achieving Education for All through public-private partnerships?

01/06/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Education is commonly regarded as a state responsibility. Non-state provision is, however, increasingly prevalent in many developing countries in response to the inaccessibility and poor quality of state provision. Its unplanned growth has led to proposals for developing ‘public-private partnerships’. However, as a number of the papers in this collection indicate, such partnerships are insufficiently […]

Journal article

Mediators or partners? Practitioner perspectives on partnership

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Partnership has become a key word in the jargon of international development. This article presents the results of research into the perspectives of Cambodian and Filipino NGO workers on their funding relationships. Largely confirming the negative literature about partnership, practitioners generally expressed a view that their relationships with funders are not consistent with the rhetoric […]

Briefing paper

Partnership or Power Play? How Europe should bring development into its trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries

21/04/2008

4 documents

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Trade policy

Overview

Europe is negotiating new trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries. A true partnership in trade could radically transform the lives of one-third of all people living in poverty, providing farmers and small businesses with sustainable incomes and workers with decent jobs. But Europe is choosing power politics over partnership. The deals currently […]

Showing 321 matching results from Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Fair Company-Community Partnerships in Palm Oil Development

21/05/2014

2 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Palm oil production can lead to greenhouse gas emissions, land grabs and exploitation. This paper points to four key principles for designing partnerships between communities and companies in palm oil that can benefit both: freedom of choice, accountability, improvement and respect for rights (FAIR). These principles for FAIR partnerships are intended to prompt a rethink […]

Journal article

Is this a partnership or a relationship? Concern Worldwide maps the difference

01/08/2010

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Despite its adoption of a partnership approach within its countries of operation, Concern Worldwide has struggled to match its definition of partnership with the range of relationships in which it actually engages on the ground. A relationship-mapping diagram conceived during its Partnership Policy formulation workshop has now helped to bridge this gap between theory and […]

Briefing note

Busan in a Nutshell: What next for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation?

02/10/2012

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, established in Busan, South Korea in 2011, set the international standard on the principles of effective aid and good development to which all development actors should subscribe. These principles include: country leadership and ownership of development strategies; a focus on results that matter to the poor in developing […]

Research report

Missed Again: Making space for partnership in the typhoon Haiyan response

08/12/2014

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This study is the second output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-government organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The report builds on findings from the 2013 report and provides evidence to demonstrate the extent to which partnership working took place in response to typhoon Haiyan […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Putting Oxfam’s Partnership Principles into Practice

02/06/2016

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam works with others, taking action to achieve common goals for overcoming poverty and injustice. Its aim is to achieve consistently good quality and honest relationships with all of its partners. Good partnerships are based on paying attention to ways of working and maximizing impact by delivering good financial and programme management. This guideline has […]

Journal article

Aid partnership in the Bougainville conflict: the case of a local women’s NGO and its donors

01/06/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article documents lessons learned from a study of aid partnerships in post-conflict development and peace building in Bougainville. It examines how donor agencies, in this case the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), contributed to the successes and failures of the Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency (LNWDA). […]

Journal article

The ‘Economy of Communion’: a case study of business and civil society in partnership for change

01/08/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The role of Northern-based civil society organisations has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. In particular, their principal role as ‘redistributive’ agencies working in the South has come under criticism, leading them to seek new ways of defining their part in eradicating poverty. One widely adopted strategy has been an increasing emphasis on advocacy for […]

Journal article

Achieving Education for All through public-private partnerships?

01/06/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Education is commonly regarded as a state responsibility. Non-state provision is, however, increasingly prevalent in many developing countries in response to the inaccessibility and poor quality of state provision. Its unplanned growth has led to proposals for developing ‘public-private partnerships’. However, as a number of the papers in this collection indicate, such partnerships are insufficiently […]

Journal article

Mediators or partners? Practitioner perspectives on partnership

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Partnership has become a key word in the jargon of international development. This article presents the results of research into the perspectives of Cambodian and Filipino NGO workers on their funding relationships. Largely confirming the negative literature about partnership, practitioners generally expressed a view that their relationships with funders are not consistent with the rhetoric […]

Briefing paper

Partnership or Power Play? How Europe should bring development into its trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries

21/04/2008

4 documents

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Trade policy

Overview

Europe is negotiating new trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries. A true partnership in trade could radically transform the lives of one-third of all people living in poverty, providing farmers and small businesses with sustainable incomes and workers with decent jobs. But Europe is choosing power politics over partnership. The deals currently […]