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Partnership Support Tools

Our continually expanding set of partnering tools has been developed by TPI partnership brokers and experts to support effective collaboration throughout the partnering lifecycle. From designing and building to managing, reviewing, and moving on, these tools and frameworks aim to facilitate the key steps and decisions of the partnering process.

Partnering for our Common Future: Optimising mining’s partnering capability to contribute to community resilience and thriving societies
Partnering for our Common Future: Optimising mining’s partnering capability to contribute to community resilience and thriving societies
Of all industries, mining has possibly the widest ranging and deepest impact on humanity and the planet. At one end of the value chain, every person’s life is reliant on ...
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The SDG Partnership Guidebook
The SDG Partnership Guidebook
The SDG Partnership Guidebook is the flagship publication of the SDG Partnership Accelerator and serves as a practical resource to help build high impact multi-stakeholder partnerships for the Sustainable Development ...
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Business as a Partner in Agenda 2030
Business as a Partner in Agenda 2030
This tool, designed for use in the Scoping and Building phase of the Partnering Cycle, helps to identify where and how business can engage as a partner in development Download ...
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The Relationship Spectrum
The Relationship Spectrum
When deciding to ‘partner,’ it is important to have mutual understanding of the sort of relationship you are trying to develop together. The ‘relationship spectrum’ sets out a continuum of ...
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The Partnership Health Check
The Partnership Health Check
Monitoring the health and therefore the efficiency of the partnership’s setup, operation and processes is as important as monitoring its achievements. This tool sets out indicators of partnership “good health”, ...
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The Partnering Agreement Scorecard
The Partnering Agreement Scorecard
The ideal partnering agreement is designed to capture an agreed collaboration that has been co-created (not imposed by one or other partner). This tool can be used to rate a ...
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Stakeholder mapping
Stakeholder mapping
Use this tool early in the scoping phase to identify the organisations and individuals to be engaged with/ taken account of by a potential partnership project. The stakeholder mapping exercise provides ...
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The Partnering Journey
The Partnering Journey
This diagram illustrates the journey typically taken to build an effective collaboration: a central journey for the partnership as a whole, and individual journeys for each of the partners. In ...
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Managing Power Imbalances
Managing Power Imbalances
This tool will help partners acknowledge, identify and explore sources of power and design appropriate mechanisms to address, and actions to mitigate, problematic power imbalances. Download the tool ...
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Internal Prospective Partnership Assessment Tool
Internal Prospective Partnership Assessment Tool
A tool to use during the scoping and building phase, to assess the value, risks and implications of a particular partnership opportunity and inform a go/no-go decision. This tool is used ...
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