pestalozzi 7/2012 international development cooperation networking ? - sector promotion -

Pestalozzi 7/2012International Development Cooperation

Networking ?- sector promotion -


Four dimensions (actor groups) for sector promotion

Potentials &Opportunities

Organisational development

partners, associations target group

Development of human resources

strategic cooperations

Network development

frame conditions, laws,

System development

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Periphery Periphery

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organisationIndividual networks

Cooperation networks


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actors decide on membership

actors look for own results but are not independant from other actors (interdependence)

mutual decisions are negotiated

Projects- and programs of development cooperation are cooperation systems


Evolution steps of cooperation networks

Information exchange basis for all kind of fur- ther cooperation: Investitions in time, communi-cation, contacts and building up of confidence

FORMS OF COOPERATION UTILITY

Actors use information and build up mutual confidence

Knowledge /Information exchange: Efforts to exchange explicit and implicit knowledge – creation Communities of Practice.

Actors use information exchange in practical work.

Coordination: mutual efforts to inform about own plans and coordinate activities

Actors work independantly knowing what others are doing and adjusts their work accordingly.

Actors use comparative advantages and act together on the basis commonly agreed projects and resources

Co-Production: joint investitions (pooling) in planning and implementation of orojects based on concerted strategies

Actors implement independantly but collaborate in specific fields to create synergies .

Strategic alliance: investitions in the concertation of planning and resource allocation.

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How does change in organisations and networks work?

UNFREEZE

Questions & self diagnosistake serious various

perceptions discussion of options and formulation of anticipated

change

MOVE

Steering of the change process (speed, used energy, reporting of

positive results...) and creating synergies

between CP

STABILISATION Freeze

Celebration of successes

AdjustmentsNew rules to safeguard

the innovations

3 Phases of Change in socio-technical systems3 Phases of Change in socio-technical systems

CP „Change“ project

Resistance and factors against

change

Power and factors favoring change

CP 2CP 1

CP 6 CP 7

CP 3CP 4

CP 5


Success factors for cooperation networks

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• Commonly set objectives in order to create inclusion

• Valorisation of the diversity of actors inside the network – creation of complementarity

• Supporting of mutual confidence in between members – favouring of informal exchange to keep transaction costs low

Infor-mal

• Negotiated agreements/procedures/minimum conditions for: (i) evolving membership, (ii) thematic focus, (iii) information exchange and (iv) communication channels

• Procedures/rules for decision making

formal

• Medium term working plan taking account of member‘s capacitiesand possible contributions

• Agreement on coordination unit (assumed roles, control mechanisms...)

• Transparent distribution of costs and use of network

oper-ational

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