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V Evaluating Outcomes and Enhancing Effectiveness--Summary, Panel Discussion
V Evaluating Outcomes and Enhancing Effectiveness--Summary, Panel Discussion
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By extension, there is a tendency for partnerships to develop metrics that focus on processes both internal and external to the partnership with less attention paid to other measureable outcomes. This final session focused on the results frameworks that various partnerships have developed to evaluate their impacts.
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for livestock research, and there is evidence that both private sector and academic research partners are now approaching joint ventures differently, and with more enthusiasm. The Sustainable Forest Products Global Alliance's expected outcome was not quantified, although the "expansion in the proportion of internationally traded forest products sourced from sustainably managed certified forests" is one which could be, and has since been, calculated in terms of hectares and monetary value.
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mission -- access to clean water for everyone -- is one that is quantifiable, but so ambitious that the partners instead have chosen to focus on scalable activities that add up to large, dramatic outcomes. An example of these "micro-outcomes" includes a program focused on clean water access and sanitation practices in Kenyan schools, which demonstrated drops in absentee rates.
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Initially, partnerships focused on the inputs; e.g., dollars spent on a project; or on basic outputs; e.g., kilometers of roadway constructed. Possibly influenced by private sector involvement, however, these partnerships are increasingly reporting outcomes in terms that are better understood by consumers and end users, e.g., amount of time saved on a commute.
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Although groups often identified more than three ideas, these ideas addressed three overarching themes, roughly categorized and summarized below: establishing a vision, creating decision support tools, and replicating success. Establishing a vision is a critical process in which a partnership will engage early on, where partners seek to align their different visions and identify key stakeholders, as well as objectives on which they can find common ground, or a common viewing point.
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2 Summary: Enhancing the Effectieness of Sustainability Parnerships As much as one might want to reduce multi-stakeholder partnerships to a science, the case studies reiterated the point that successful partnerships can often attribute that success to skilled individuals keeping the partnership running.
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