ParCom12_Dealing+with+partnerships

=Partnership and Communication annual meeting 2012 = On 24-26 January, ILRI's P&C department held a meeting in Addis Ababa to review the highlights of 2011 and align plans and ideas around strategic priorities for 2012 and beyond. (go back to ParCom12 home page)

**Contributors**: Birke Enyew
 * Topic **: Dealing with partnerships
 * Topic owner **: Purvi Mehta-Bhatt
 * Suggested Activities/Action Points- **
 * Can do- **
 * Update the 'yellow pages' - the contact data base.
 * Make ILRI staff aware of existing yellow pages/contact data base and ask them to add their contacts to it (can be done by announcing it on ILRInet and other mediums)
 * Experience sharing/ lessons learnt from selected partnerships- may be a session by Bruce? at the MC/TL?
 * Categorise the contact list- the existing VIP list should be categorised according to the following categories-
 * 1) Recipients of ILRI calendars
 * 2) DG’s letters
 * 3) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Some important announcements/news
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Work with HR to include need for partnerships/networking in scientists/project managers’ TORs/JDs.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Can consider doing- **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Recruiting (Assigning) someone on a full time basis to update/maintain the existing contacts, VIP lists, do partner communication, document partnership lessons learnt.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Background: why are we working on this? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Partnerships are an important impact pathways. we need to leverage upon the existing partnership networks and build on it.

**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24px;">What are our destinations? **
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Reaching out to partners effectively and create new partnerships, especially in the CRP scenario (value chain partners, CG partners etc)


 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24px;">What team and equipment do we need for the road (how, with whom, capacities, tools and approaches)? **
 * this is a shared (ILRI wide) responcibility but with someone taking a lead and coordinating the activities. This role can be played by P&C team with significant inputs from ICT and HR.
 * need capacities to partner/network. need for some kind of training/CD for project manageres/scietists on how best to create partnerships, network with different stakeholders.


 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24px;">The roadmap to get there (who does what by when)? **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">mentioned in the top section.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Cracks, potholes and diversions (concerns and questions about the road)?
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">we need better internal partnerships to be able to strengthen external partnerships!