TPI is committed to capturing our knowledge of partnership and cutting edge theory through webinars, lectures, and introductory video material. This page hosts our growing collection of multimedia resources to watch and share.
Webinars
Partnering lectures & tutorials
Events
Webinars
Webinar series 2019:
Accelerating partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
| Fit for Partnering: building organisational capacity to partner towards the SDGs With World Vision, CARE, UN World Food Programme |
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| The delivery of the SDGs requires an unparalleled level of innovative, systemic collaborative action across sectors, well beyond what organisations are familiar with. Many organisations are finding they are not set up optimally to deliver on this agenda. Colleagues from World Vision, Care International and the World Food Programme shared their experiences building their organisations’ institutional capability to partner effectively and become ‘partner of choice’, through the Fit for Partnering programme. Read more | |
| More than the Sum of its Parts: Maximising Partnership Value Creation With World Vision, UNDESA, Pearson & Unicef |
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| How can partnerships result in more than the sum of their parts? How can we measure this ‘Collaborative Advantage’? In our recent webinar, practitioners from across sectors discussed TPI’s new framework (developed with World Vision) and guidebook (with UNDESA) that allows systematic examination and maximisation of partnership value creation: 1) the extra power intrinsic to partnership; 2) the additional impact partnerships can deliver; and 3) the value generated for all partners. Read more | |
Read more about our webinar series 2019
Previous webinars
| Better Together: Unleashing the Power of the Private Sector to Tackle NCDs With UICC, Bupa, Kenya Cancer Association and Pfizer |
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| In 2017 TPI, Bupa, and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) co-created a new partnering guidebook designed for non-profit organisations who wish to partner with companies against NCDs: Better together: Unleashing the power of the Private Sector to tackle Non-Communicable Diseases This webinar marked the launch of the guidebook. Panelists from UICC, Bupa, Kenya Cancer Association & Pfizer discussed the opportunity, the challenge, and tips for successful collaboration against NCDs. Read more | |
| Delivering on the Promise: Scaling up Collaboration for the SDGs With David Nabarro, Jane Nelson and Trihadi Saptoadi |
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| The SDGs require a fundamental shift in approach and require unprecedented levels of collaboration across sectors. This is a heavy demand to place. To scale up and mainstream will require a systematic effort and a range of new approaches. Our Delivering on the Promise webinar convened a panel of four leaders in the field, with perspectives from the UN, business, and NGOs, to discuss the critical question ‘How do we scale up collaboration for the SDGs? Read more | |
| Implementing the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Platforms for Partnering Around the SDGs With FSG and the Collective Impact Forum, hosted by the Skoll Foundation |
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| This webinar explores the role of platforms for partnership – backbone organisations that convene, broker, and support partnerships at country level – as a crucial part of the infrastructure to support global collaboration for the SDGs. The webinar presents a model for collective action, and introduces the life cycle and building blocks of effective platforms with direct learning and experience from two current, thriving backbone organisations: SAGCOT in Tanzania, and the Zambia Business in Development Facility | |
| Partnerships for Inclusive Business Results Hosted by the Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business With Yara, Hystra and TPI |
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| Why are partnerships so fundamental to effective inclusive business strategies? What are the different types of partnerships needed to deliver business models, improve value chains, and build coalitions for change? Moderated by the Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business, the webinar brought together Yara International, TPI & Hystra to discuss partnerships that catalyse value chain collaboration for disruptive business models, and public-private alliances for change. Read more | |
Partnership lectures & tutorials
A series of brief introductory video lectures covering the essentials of partnership theory and definitions, and introducing elements of effective partnering practice within the framework of the partnering lifecycle.
| Introduction to the partnering cycle | |
| Introducing the Partnering Cycle, a way of picturing the process that a partnership will go through from inception to the end of the partnership. The cycle includes four key phases: scoping & building, managing & maintaining, reviewing & revising, and sustaining outcomes. | |
| Introduction to value creation in partnership | |
| An introduction to TPI’s framework for value creation in cross-sector partnerships for development, which demystifies the concept of the added value partnership brings. We distinguish the value in terms of benefit to each partner (organisational value or mission value) and in terms of the value add of the partnership as a whole, based on what we term the ‘collaborative advantage’ of partnering. | |
International events
Discussions and presentations from recent development and partnership related international events and conferences.
| 2019 HLPF SideEvent: Designing and managing SDG partnerships for greatest impact |
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This SDG Learning and Training sessionm held during the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, consisted of four sections covering designing and managing individual partnerships for greatest impact towards the SDGs, designing the collaborative approach of national level SDG focused partnership coalitions, and managing partnerships for greatest impact. Read more |
| 2018 HLPF Special Event: Partnership Exchange – Parallel Session 1 Building Institutions and Platforms that are Fit for Partnering |
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To partner well at scale, organisations need to have in place the right leadership & strategy, enabling systems & processes, strong staff skills & guidance, and a partnering culture – they need to be “Fit for Partnering”. What are the major institutional issues that make it challenging for organisations to partner? What does a pro-partnering culture look like and how do you build it? What are the skills necessary for partnering and how do you build them? How can the UN build its institutional ability to partner more effectively? Read more |
| Partnerships and Innovation TPI and Ethicore at Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2018 |
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| Partnerships, by their very nature, force us to work in different ways. If done well, partnerships, particularly across diverse organisations, can be hugely fertile incubators of innovation. Part of the Partnership Zone, curated by TPI and Ethicore, at the Business Fights Poverty Annual Event, the session gave a high-speed overview of innovation in partnerships; highlighted the work of six creative partnerships; and even inspired in real time a plethora of new collaborative ideas from the people in the room. | |
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