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 \n• Short description of partners (including legal status, overall mission), identification of representatives of each partner organisation  \nWhy?  \n• Vision statement  \n• Overarching drivers / reasons for involvement of each of the partners  \n• Objectives ofthe partnership  \n• Demonstrable VALUE created through partnering  \n• How each partner hopes to gain from the partnership  \nWhat?  \n• Mission statement  \n• Context and target of the partnership activities  \n• Initial high-level theory of change and expected activities  \n• What each partner brings to the table / resource commitments  \n• Roles and responsibilities of each of the partners  \n• External resources  \n• Overall measures of success  \nHow?  \n• Governance / accountability structure including decision-making principles  \n• Operational structure (coordination / management arrangements / secretariat) and internal communications  \n• Financial arrangements [details maybe in a separate contract]  \n• Measures to strengthen partner capacity to implement commitments where necessary  \n• Timeframe and procedure for ongoing partnership review and revision  \n• Metrics for tracking and measuring partnership performance against partnership and each individual partners’ objectives  \n• Sustainability strategy for sustaining partnership ‘outcomes’  \nWhat if?  \n• Risks / threats and mitigation  \n• Grievance mechanism to resolve differences  \n• Rules for individual partners to leave or join  \n• Exit (‘moving on’) strategy for partnership as a whole  \nExternal communications and IP  \n• Rules for branding (using own, eachother’s) and other rules for the public profile of the partnership;  \n• Intellectual property and confidentiality rules  \n• Protocols for communicating externally  \nCharter  \n• Agreed underlying principles / values of the partnership and partners  \n• Code of conduct / expected behaviours in the partnership","cbCaiujXTEyii5Bj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiujXTEyii5Bj","pdf",45195,"English","# Partnering Agreement Template\n## Partnership phase and agreement types\n## Who, why, what, and how\n## Risks, grievances, entry/exit\n## External communications, IP, and charter","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of a partnering agreement in this template?\",\"answer\":\"It captures the partnership value, vision, and collaboration principles in a structured agreement of intent, typically non-legally binding, alongside related legally binding contracts when needed.\"},{\"question\":\"What sections does the template require to describe the partnership?\",\"answer\":\"It defines who the partners are, why they collaborate (vision, drivers, objectives, value), what they will do (mission, context, theory of change, resources, roles), and how they will operate (governance, operational structure, finance, capacity, review, metrics, and sustainability).\"},{\"question\":\"How does the template address risks and changing partnership membership?\",\"answer\":\"It includes a risk and mitigation section, a grievance mechanism, rules for partners to leave or join, and an exit strategy for the partnership as a whole, plus protocols for external communication and IP confidentiality.\"}]","Partnering Agreement Template | PDF",1789584662]