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Books & Publications

Building and Sustaining Effective Partnerships

Books & Publications

Building and Sustaining Effective Partnerships

Conservation Gateway

Competencies

Developing Effective Partnerships

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The Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Gateway is a website for the conservation practitioner, scientist and decision-maker. They have produced a valuable guide for people who wish to build and sustain effective partnerships. It is focused on the area of conservation, but the general principles can apply in any area.

Some of the topics covered are:

What is a Partnership?
What gets in the way?
Why do all partnerships need these 3 core principles?
A Strategic Approach to Partnership
Preparing to partner
The Art and Science of Partnering
Selecting Partners
Negotiating Agreements
Managing the Partnership
Measuring the Partnership.