Partnership and Capacity Building of Local Governance
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Partnership and Capacity Building of Local Governance Mohammed Asaduzzaman1 and Petri Virtanen2,3 1 Department of Public Administration, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh 2 ITLA (The Finnish Children’s Foundation), Helsinki, Finland 3 University of Vaasa (Social and Health Management), Vaasa, Finland
Synonyms Co-creation governance; Collaborative governance; Cooperative governance; Integrative governance; Network governance; Participatory governance
Definition The concept “partnership” has gained immense importance worldwide, from development to business, from charity organizations to profitmaking companies and even within family business. It has been considered as one of the vital strategies of achieving sustainable development goals. Partnership is about sharing of power, responsibility, and achievements and the success of such partnership depends on the inherent interests and aspirations of the partners. It can be defined as a set of institutional relationships
between the government and various actors in the private sector and in civil society. Unlike mere participation, a partnership implies a more formal “institutional” relationship with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for each stakeholder (Asaduzzaman et al. 2016). Earlier, the 1970s’ partnership was considered as the relationship between northern and southern nongovernmental organizations. At present, partnership refers to formal, informal, and shortterm engagements of various actors such as nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and/or government agencies that join forces for a shared objective; to more formal, but still shortterm private sector engagements for the provision of specific services, for example, annual outsourcing arrangements for janitorial services for a school or operations of the school cafeteria; to more complex contractual arrangements, such as build, operate, transfer regimes, where the private sector takes on considerable risk and remains engaged long term; or to full privatizations (World Bank Group 2014). Due to its different connotations it is difficult to find an ideal or general definition of partnerships. But an ideal type definition of partnerships depends on some essential components such as mutuality, organizational identity, respect, influence, accountability, transparency, commitment, and contextual reality (Brinkerhoff 2002; Crawford 2003; Farazmand 2004; Haque 2004; Samaratunge et al. 2008). These components should be properly taken into account in defining partnerships.
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Partnership and Capacity Building of Local Governance
Introduction
issues raised in many policy areas, and (iv) the genuine participation of the local community. With the diminishing role of the state in programs such as poverty eradication, employment generation, public health, and basic education, the role of local institutions in
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