Partnership Matters: Practical Partnership Stories and Observations from Plan in Eastern and Southern Africa

Published by Plan International, this booklet contain stories, examples, tools, and agreement formats that emerged from work to explore and build on the question, what is partnership. According to the booklet’s introduction, Plan’s Regional Office in East and Southern Africa (Plan RESA RO) has been actively exploring this question since 2008 and has engaged in a wide range of organisational relationship work over the past 3 years to better understand what partnership means in theory and in practice. The goal in producing this booklet was to share their experience of observing and creating connections between organisations - and invite others to use it, build on it, and improve it.
This booklet contains the following chapters:

• Exploring Partnerships - Foreword
• Plan RESA regional Office’s Work on Inter-organisational relationships in 2009-11
• Partnership Stories from the Field
• Strategic Partnership Building: Experiences from a Partnership between the African Child Policy Forum and Plan International