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Partnering For Results:
Intersectoral Partnerships (ISPs)

  
  Partnering for Results

ISP Handbooks
 A User's Guide to Intersectoral Partnering (November 1998)
 Assessing the Impact of Intersectoral Partnering (October 1999)
 USAID's Experience with Intersectoral Partnering (coming soon)

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Tuesday, 14-Nov-2000 13:58:42 EST

 
  

The use of intersectoral partnerships (ISPs) as a development tool is expanding rapidly as the development community increasingly recognizes the importance of institutions that combine market, governance, and voluntaristic characteristics. ISPs strengthen individual organizations within each sector, offer a mechanism to resolve specific development issues, and can lay the foundation for broader, systemic change. With collaborative action, government, business, and civil society can take advantage of creative synergies and achieve outcomes that are impossible for any one of them to achieve alone.

This web site provides information on what ISPs are, why they are an important development strategy, and how donors and other organizations can facilitate their growth. This web site will also be used as a clearinghouse to store new information about the development and success of ISPs.

To read the notes from the April 12, 2000 seminar, "Inter-Sectoral Partnering: Tools for Implementation and Evaluation," please click here.

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