Partnership Development & Sustainability

Are all your partners on the same page? Has a turnover in job roles meant people are not clear on their roles and responsibilities? Do your meetings need a ‘critical friend’ to help drive forward action? Have you new legal responsibilities that may mean new partners get involved? Do you worry about the future strength of partnership arrangements? You can minimise risks and add value with a program of work focused on partnership effectiveness.

The Solution

I have worked with partnerships for many years on a variety of work programmes that could benefit your partnership:

  • evaluate partnership effectiveness through health-check interviews and events, offering recommendations for action and guidance on who and how to engage; effective governance and delivery structures; how to ensure you get the most out of partnership working; monitoring progress
  • deliver training on partnership working and problem-solving
  • facilitate partnership meetings
  • act as a mentor and ‘critical friend’ at board or project meetings, contributing my research and experience to create a positive and solution-focused environment
  • create sustainability plans so that partnerships don’t succeed or fail on grant funding or particular people
  • undertake consultation with organisations and communities.

My Experience

While partnership working is a key element of all my projects, I offer services specifically designed to enhance the effectiveness of collaborations around safer and healthier communities.

Previous work includes:

  • Desk-top reviews of key partnership documents
  • Partnership health checks, including recommendations forupdatingterms of reference and governance arrangements
  • Interviews and events to assess and refresh partnership performance, shared goals and future planning
  • Writing of partnership development and sustainability plans to provide recommendations for future success
  • Delivery of Partnership Development Sessions

I am happy to give you a free consultation to discuss your needs. [https://nicolahughesconsulting.co.uk/contact/]

Want to know more? Read my case studies around the new Serious Violence Duty and how I supported the development of partnership structures and a sustainability plan.