>> Welcome to the fourth
lecture of the International
Organizations, and Public
Private Partnerships.
In this lecture, we will discuss, what partnering in public private
partnerships implies for international organizations.
We will explore how to prepare an organization
for partnerships and how to select suitable partners.
Moreover, we will
address the roles, that international organizations adopt in public
private partnerships.
As well as the role of
individual leadership in the public private partnerships.
Partnering is an art, that needs to be prepared WIthin your org, organization.
So if you are planning to engage in, a public private partnership.
The key question is, is your organization sufficiently prepared for
successfully engaging in a partnership. Now preparing
organizations, for public private partnerships, involves
various aspects. Let me lead you through different aspects.
One is, of course, that organizations, the organization's vision and the
purpose. Do you have a clear sense of why
you are entering into a partnership? So, does your
vision and your long term outlook
really make clear why you are entering into a partnership?
Does it make sense?
What will you contribute, and what is it you will get out of the partnership?
A second point is the time and the capacity.
Is there in the time, is it right. You have enough time and you have enough
capacity. So who is in your organization going to be
involved and how. Can you incorporate the additional work,
are you really prepared for additional expenses and additional energy.
There is no quick and easy way to achieve a successful partnering.
The next is, think about internal support capacity
at your organization. Your organization may need a
lot of internal guidelines, a lot of new training.
And it needs the discussion, and
in the company, and it needs of course discussion groups to prepare
the partnership.
Another one is, is your organization really ready to partner from a
cultural perspective? That means you have the values.
The orientation.
The ideas. The drive.
In your organization, and so the culture is the culture
open to go into a public private partnership, and to welcome
other partners. To be welcoming to other people.
To be welcoming to other approaches and ideas.
You have to make sure that you have the required organizational
support for engaging in a public private partnership.
Otherwise you may make promises that you cannot
keep, and you will be create a lot of deception in your company,
as well as organization, as well as in the partner's organizations.
>> So there are many opportunities for international organizations engaged in
public private partnerships but they only have limited time and resources.
So, it's important to actually select those partnerships
that these organisation perceive at the most promising.
So in the following we will focus on
two dimensions to actually than select these partnerships.
On the one hand, it's the area of involvement and on the other
hand it's finding suitable partners.
So let's start with the area of involvement.
So how do you select the society issue where
you want to engage with or involve with your partnership?
So first of all, it's important that the area of
or the society pro, prom is really of organisational interest.
So meaning that there is a strategic interest of your organisation
to engage in that area.
This sounds very simplistic, but you will see many partnerships are driven by
individuals, and so the link between the
partnership and the organization is very vague.
So once this person leaves the standard organization.
So the link between the partnership and
the organization has gone, actually, creating problems.
So in addition to this
strategic, relevance and interest, it's important
that you can contribute valuable resources so
that that the other part, partners cannot contribute in that quality or quantity.
So meaning that you are really needed in that partnership.
And 30 and so the area of involvement should
really make you confident and that your organization is going
to be committed to this partnerships, so that you really
have the organizational by in for this problem in this partnership.
So these are three dimensions to define the partnership
area or area of involvement.
the next dimension is how to select, actually, a suitable partner, and
here again it's important that there's a strategic fit between the partners.
Meaning that they have a common understanding of what the problem
is about and how are they going to address this problem.
Moreover, it is important that you have really, compatible and complimentary
resources that you can really, work with each other and create synergies.
Thirdly there has to be a cultural fit.
So this sounds very stupid, even, because the partners are coming
from different sectors having a different background, so what about cultural fit?
But actually, it's important that at least you check the other partner organizations.
And find out whether
their logos and, find out where tensions could occur
so that you really define strategies to avoid these tangents.
And, so finally, it's really important you have partners where you're sure that
they are committed and they really have an interest in making this partnership work.
So on this basis, these are some guidelines to find suitable partnerships.
So, it's very
difficult to find the perfect partner for your partnership.
But it's important to gather a lot of information and actually, to, to dulatance
of your partner in order to avoid
tensions and to define strategies to overcome challenges.
Another key question is, what role
do international organizations adopt in public/private partnerships?
So do they, act as
a core member or a core partner.
In that they are involved in the decision making processes.
And involved in the operational implementation of the partnership.
Or, are the international organizations rather acting as a broker organization.
And that they initiate the partnership.
And actually, help the partnership process.
So, Jeberry will discuss that more in depth.
>> So,
many international organizations. Such as the World Bank.
The World Economic Forum.
UNDP and UNIDO. They adopt a broker role.
And they make, they have a role that helps to develop a whole partnership programs.
They, here we refer to these broker organizations
and look a little bit closer what really means.
So what do you mean by broker organization?
A broker organization is an independent professional unit.
Acting as a public private partnership catalyst, or a facilitator
for the creation of a public private partnership.
It is, therefore, not a full partner of
the public private partnership.
It rather acts as a consultant or as a facilitor.
So what do international organizations do when they act as a broker?
Brokers, or as brokers, they leverage their networks.
And they bring the partners together. They bring the different
stakeholders together for a particular societal,
for a particular societal problem. To do so,
they, identify and connect the partners and
of course other actors that should be part of the
system or this organization. They may act as a mediator,
a mediator between the different partners and therefore
help in bridging gaps. For instance, they
are there to moderate discussions. They help to build
relationships, and to motivate partners to keep the momentum.
That is one of the most difficult things. One is to create and
launch a public private partnership, but difficult also.
Is to keep the momentum.
To keep it going.
And here, another role, that often is taken, into
account by the broker organizations. Broker organizations act as
a learning catalyst in many cases. They act as a learning
provider in the sense that they share best practices and lessons learned
they bring along as they create many different public private partnerships.
They may offer the bench marking in partnership programs, or
they may provide monitoring and evaluation services to a public
private partnership. That means they share lessons learned
and their, they bring in their partnership experience
from other public private partnerships. Now,
not all partnerships need the services of a broker organization.
However, an international organization
May act as a broker if the partners face difficulties in finding suitable partners.
Or if, in the absence of trusting relationships,
where the broker can really help to build.
Of trust, and bring the partners together that have a good fit.
Or brokers are there if the partners don't
know how to design, implement and review their partnership.
There's much to say from this and we invite
you to really read our recent article on this topic.
How brokers act and provide help to public private partnerships?
>> So here I would say it's time for another reflection question, so you
may take five minutes or a couple of minutes to reflect on the question,
why do you think International Organizations are well-suited in order
to initiate partnerships and to bring the different partners together.
So you may write down certain ideas that come into your mind.
So this leads us to the next
question, that is leadership in public-private partnership.
So this concerns more the role that you as an individual can play.
In public-private partnerships.
So, here please note that leadership in public-private
partnership is not only one leader but actually each
representative from a partner organization, has to act
as a leader and actually promote the partnering process.
So, what do we mean by leadership?
In the collaborative area, leadership is about, being patient.
Hearing different opinions, and building trust and building relationships.
So, it's about finding ways to channel different ideas,
activities, and so on of partners towards a common goal.
And if we think about characteristics that help leaders
in order to actually fulfill this role, it's
about being patient, being about being open to new ideas,
and Actually communicating well and being able to
influence people so that you actually come to common grounds.
so moreover, a partner leadership, or leaders in public private
partnerships are often also called boundary spanners.
Because this spanning boundaries between different
sectors or organizations and so on.
So which leads us then also to,
so the question of becoming a partnership champion.
>> partnership champion, well what does
that mean to become a partnership champion?
According to
Ros Tennyson, this is an individual who promotes
the partnership using his or her personal, professional reputation,
and or the role to give the partnership greater authority or profile.
A partnership champion is a person who gets the organization
to buy in, and someone who can align.
So if the champion is really someone who can align the different partners.
And promotes the partnerships throughout the process.
And this, this is a challenging,
but also a very inspiring task. And actually, we invite you
to think about the current, or future role in the
partnerships. On this note, let us conclude our session
and strongly encourage you to reflect on
the advantages, the challenges and the opportunities related
to public, private partnerships. We consider this as a fascinating topic
and hope that you have enjoyed our introduction into this
topic. Let us get to a final exercise
where we ask you to analyze a public private partnership in
your environment In which an international organization of your
choice is involved, and you describe this for us.
>> So, you may actually take a few
questions as a guideline for your, for your description.
So, the first question would be, who,
so you have a partnership with an international organization,
but who are the other partners in this partnership?
And secondly, what is the partnership's goal?
And then you can also discuss also in the third place,
what are the benefits and challenges involved in this particular partnership?
So we are looking forward and receiving let's say, a
one pager, on the selected partnership, so for this please
use the e-mail address that is listed on the MOOC description.
>> Happy to read you soon.