Filling your Partnering ‘Toolbox’ for 2019
Asia P3 Hub newsletter, January 2019 issue
Who’s ready and excited to begin 2019? We certainly are! The new year is a perfect opportunity to take stock and reflect on the learnings of the previous year, as well as refreshing and recharging for the year ahead.
Collaboration is an innate part of human nature. But partnering between organisations and across sectors also throws up a unique set of challenges. Even seasoned cross-sector collaborators can do with a refresh of skills and tools. That’s why this month we’re focusing on filling our toolbox with skills and tools for impactful partnerships for the year ahead.
We’ve packed our newsletter this month with stories, interviews and useful partnership tips and tools to take you into 2019. Enjoy!
WHAT’S NEW?
Check out our new website!
We underwent a major makeover over the break, and our new website is now live! Check out our new look and learn more about who we are, the work we do, and why we believe multi-sector partnership works (check out our latest video in the homepage). Get to know the people behind the Hub, check out some of our tools and publications and say hello if you must!
Social Innovation Challenge: Co-Creating Change with Communities in the Philippines
Families in the Philippines struggling to get drinking water, farmers in remote areas whose livelihoods have been affected by climate change, children dropping out of school to help provide for their families, communities being choked by waste — these are the challenge-owners at the heart of a Social Innovation Challenge, a recently launched platform that lets you turn challenges into opportunities and co-create impactful solutions directly with these communities in the Philippines. Four communities, four challenges, looking for four innovative solutions. Take the challenge!
PARTNERSHIP STORIES AND TOOLS
Snapshots of a Transformational WASH Partnership in Action: Three Stories from the Field
When schools, families and communities gain access to clean water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH), it supports their right to education and empowers them to live healthier, more productive lives. Asia P3 Hub recently announced a strategic partnership with Kohler to bring safe water, hygiene and sanitation to schools in Asia-Pacific, leveraging on the work of its existing partnership with the company. We’re also committed to opening up this partnership as a model for others to learn from. This month we’re sharing three stories that show how our partnership is already changing the lives of children and communities in Asia-Pacific.
Maximising Impact through Partnerships: Collaborative Advantage
The Sustainable Development Goals assume that partnerships are critical to success, but we know that many times partnerships don’t make it — they don’t achieve their desired impact. Our colleagues from World Vision International, Ian De Villiers and Mike Wisheart, together with The Partnering Initiative and UNDESA, authored a partnership value creation guidebook entitled Maximising the Impact of Partnerships for the SDGs — an important tool that that can help you move beyond your transactional and asymmetric relationship to more equal and dynamic, added-value partnership.
ALL-ROUNDER SERIES
All-Rounder: Khemara Ros
In this month’s all-rounder feature, Khemara Ros shares his remarkable and unconventional career trajectory from working in palm-oil plantations, to NGOs, a brief stint in advertising, to working for the IFC and ADB, and now heading up Fintech company Kiu Cambodia, and what he’s learned on his journey. He also talks about the importance of knowing your own strengths, the skills he’s learned, and also the role that education has played in his life. Read the interview to learn from his journey and to get some advice on how to be an all-rounder like him.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Fit for Partnering Webinar
6 February 2019, 1:00 pm GMT
How can your organisation become institutionally ‘fit for partnering’ and take full advantage of collaboration to deliver greater impact? What steps can you take to build your organisation to be a partnering powerhouse?
Organised by The Partnering Initiative, join the partnering experts from World Vision, Care International and the World Food Programme in this webinar and hear about their experiences building their organisations’ institutional capability to partner effectively and become ‘partner of choice’.
