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UN Women are currently mid-way through a global evaluation of their strategic partnerships.
As part of this process, we would love to know more about the views and experiences of the community regarding what characterises effective partnerships for gender equality. The evaluation team will use this information to help compare and contrast our findings about the performance of UN Women. However, by asking four questions that are pertinent to all partnerships, we hope that the discussion will also be useful for your work.
We will post a new question every 3 days. To get started, it would be great to hear your thoughts on our first question:
Many thanks!
Joseph Barnes
(co-team leader)
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Tina Wallace, UK (response on Pelican community)
Agree with penny's comments on need for organisations to know where the staff and Org stand on gender equality issues and how they understand and work w them. Such audits often highlight major differences in understanding and commitment. Definitions of gender equality and the work in practice can vary hugely and understanding 'ourselves' as well as those we partner with is critical.
As important is the nature of the relationship. Are the powder dynamics clear and addressed? Who is setting the rules and terms of the partnership? Currently donors can dominate and impose strategies, says if reporting etc and relations are highly unequal.
Is as much respect paid to local skills, knowledge and analysis as those brought by a UN agency or Ingo? How culturally and contextually sensitive are those working together in a partnership across hierarchies of knowledge, power, decision making?
Some good partnerships I have seen recently are based on real respect for those working on the ground, for local knowledge and research, and where those w funds see their role as enabling and not controlling. This applies across international and local partnerships as well as those between orgs working in the same country.
There also have to be shared aims - do they share faith in working together in programmes, advocacy etc. Will they share their learning good and of failures and will credit be properly attributed to different players?
These relationships are complex and require real listening and negotiation on all sides, but do organisational strategies, targets, reporting demands allow for this to happen? Sometimes a good fit is found, more often it is a process that requires learning and adjustment, easy and difficult conversations.
Most are relationships of unequals and require an open approach often hard in time bound projects.
So much more.... But this is long enough!
Tina
Michelle Halse
Hello All
"Published as part of the Promoting Effective Partnering (PEP) project, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, the report draws on the experiences of partnership brokers worldwide. It explores the emerging lessons about partnering in diverse contexts – exploring the factors at national and local levels that impact what partnering is possible.
PBA is one of 5 partners in the project. The other 4 are: The Collective Leadership Institute, Partnerships Resource Centre, Partnerships in Practice & The Partnering Initiative.
To read the report: http://partnershipbrokers.org/w/learning/recent-current-research/
For more information on the project, visit the PRC website: http://www.rsm.nl/prc/our-research/projects/promoting-effective-par...
All our learning activities involve:
See here for more information.
eepurl.com/bZCqM1
Michelle Halse
Hello All
"Published as part of the Promoting Effective Partnering (PEP) project, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, the report draws on the experiences of partnership brokers worldwide. It explores the emerging lessons about partnering in diverse contexts – exploring the factors at national and local levels that impact what partnering is possible.
PBA is one of 5 partners in the project. The other 4 are: The Collective Leadership Institute, Partnerships Resource Centre, Partnerships in Practice & The Partnering Initiative.
To read the report: http://partnershipbrokers.org/w/learning/recent-current-research/
For more information on the project, visit the PRC website: http://www.rsm.nl/prc/our-research/projects/promoting-effective-par...
All our learning activities involve:
See here for more information.
eepurl.com/bZCqM1
Michelle Halse
Hello All
"Published as part of the Promoting Effective Partnering (PEP) project, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, the report draws on the experiences of partnership brokers worldwide. It explores the emerging lessons about partnering in diverse contexts – exploring the factors at national and local levels that impact what partnering is possible.
PBA is one of 5 partners in the project. The other 4 are: The Collective Leadership Institute, Partnerships Resource Centre, Partnerships in Practice & The Partnering Initiative.
To read the report: http://partnershipbrokers.org/w/learning/recent-current-research/
For more information on the project, visit the PRC website: http://www.rsm.nl/prc/our-research/projects/promoting-effective-par...
All our learning activities involve:
See here for more information.
eepurl.com/bZCqM1
Great!you did well.The discussion was very interesting and educating.
There are two factors important for effective partnerships for gender equality and women s empowerment. 1. Mutual trust of the partners and 2. Understanding and giving value to feminist approach. Feminism is been interpreted wrongly in general, therefore it s important to understand what feminism is about.
One of very successful examples on women s empowerment for gender equality in my work organization has been Self Empowerment project funded by Planning and Development Department of Government of Gilgit Baltistan in Pakistan, that was executed by AKRSP where women only Markets idea was conceptualised. Women only markets is a market place with a number of shops in a covered area, only for women buyers, women producers and women sellers. In a very conservative mountain society, it was important to harness the potential of women entrepreneurship and expose them into Market systems with a cautious and acceptable approach(acceptable to both conservative clerics and families).
Dear Joseph in the Caribbean we are not so focused on gender equality anymore. I guess we think we have done enough, but there are so many things left to do. We boost on how many women have managerial jobs but at what price? we also demean women in so many ways and men as well. We do need to focus more on gender relations here. I am sorry I am not answering your question but I am not sure I can give an example now. Not to say there are none, just that I cannot come up with any at this time.
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