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Asia P3 Hub 3rd Anniversary Newsletter, Special Edition
We are celebrating three years of Asia P3 Hub’s journey! We’re taking a moment to reflect at this important milestone, on what we’ve managed to achieve, and what we’ve learned along the way.
It has been three years since Asia P3 Hub was just an idea scribbled on a napkin — this idea became a capstone project, and later on turned into a pilot project that World Vision and the Singapore government believed and invested in. We have come a long way, literally building the ship while we were sailing it. Our operating model and theory of change have evolved and been iterated, good relationships have been built and partnerships brokered, many lives changed — we’ve demonstrated that the people, public and private sectors can come together, find a shared passion and common ground, and collaborate and co-create solutions for the world’s most complex problems.
This special newsletter edition offers our reflections on 3 years of building Asia P3 Hub, how we are marking this point in our journey, and what’s coming that you have to watch out for!
THE FIRST THREE YEARS
Asia P3 Hub’s Journey: A Reflection
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them,” said Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia. Our Executive Director, Christy Davis, shares her reflections on three years of building and operating a multi-sector partnership hub, where it all began, what we’ve achieved, what she’s learned along the way and whether we’ve proven our hypothesis about multi-sector partnership.
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Hub-in-a-Box Workshop: How to Build an Innovative Partnering Hub or Department from Scratch
The Hub-in-a-Box Workshop was a 3-day interactive knowledge transfer event organised and facilitated by the Asia P3 Hub team to empower partnership champions, innovators and those looking to set up a multi-sector hub. The workshop ‘unboxed’ the different elements of our hub, taking participants on a step-by-step journey of building a hub or department. We shared our experiences from our 3-year journey, the why and how of partnering, our critical success factors, how to get started and some how-to’s for getting operational.
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Asia P3 Hub Honored with 2019 Flourish Prize
What a nice way to celebrate our three years! The story, Global Partnerships for Social Impact, written by Khoo Shu Wen, Felix Lim and Rosseana Wong, is about Asia P3 Hub’s business model and innovative approach which can be simplified into 3 pertinent areas of: “Relationship Innovation, Process Innovation, Product & Service Innovation.” It was published in the AIM2Flourish platform in 2018 and was honored with the 2019 Flourish Prize for Global Goal #17, Partnerships for the Goals. Thank you Aim2Flourish for the recognition, and to Shu Wen, Felix and Rosseana for choosing to write our story!
[Press Release]
PARTNERSHIP AND INNOVATION
Digital Platform Empowering Reading And Learning In Nepal’s Schools
Reading during early childhood is a crucial foundation for literacy and future learning, helping to spark children’s imaginations and engage them with language. The availability of age appropriate reading materials is crucial for developing reading skills, hence the importance of having sufficient supplementary reading materials in schools. Kitab Bazar is an online book platform launched by World Vision International Nepal to empower reading and learning at school. Learn more about Kitab Bazar, how it works, and how the children of Nepal will benefit from this initiative.
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Everything Is a Remix
In the ‘Everything is a Remix’ series, Kirby Ferguson looks at remixing in popular culture and technology and how the components of remixing — copy, transform and combine — are really the basic elements of all creativity.
In the five years since the series launched, his video series has been viewed over two million times and resulted in a popular TED Talk. The Remix series continues to change the way people think about creativity, originality, and copyright.
We love the concept of remixing and rethinking creativity. The ‘secret sauce’ for the Asia P3 Hub model is combinatorial innovation — the idea of combining existing knowledge and resources in new ways to co-create solutions to complex challenges. The video series is well worth a watch, and if you like Kirby’s ideas about remixing — you can also re-read this piece by our intern Micaela Tam, on how remixing permeates our culture, and what this means for tackling global problems.
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COMING SOON!
Hub-in-a-Box Open-Source Knowledge Transfer Platform
We are currently developing an open-source and interactive knowledge transfer platform, a microsite that will include a ‘Hub-in-a-Box’ multi-sector partnership hub replication guide, partnership stories and case studies, webinars and tools and resources. Due to launch in early August, the site will be an invaluable tool for those looking to set up an innovative partnering hub or department. Watch your inbox and our social media platforms for updates!
