Landscape Partnership capacity and performance assessment

As LPs develop, it can be useful to assess the individual and collective competencies (values, knowledge, and skills) held by LP stakeholders for conducting ILM. Commonly useful competencies include facilitation, conflict resolution, business development, knowledge of specific ILM tools, effective training methods, financial literacy, resource mobilization, partnership development, and facility with information technology. Capacity analysis can identify gaps that might require either training (of individuals or the group) or reaching out to recruit additional partners with those competencies. LPs may also want to periodically assess their own performance. This would consider both the processes used by the partnership and progress in advancing collaborative action, and identify priorities for partnership strengthening (1.4).

Landscape Partnership capacity and performance assessment Tools

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Conditions for Success (C4S) Tool

  • Analytical
  • Co-design

The C4S tool aims to review the performance and effectiveness of a partnership. The first theme of the tool is most applicable for this output as it assesses the resources, identities and histories of the actors in the partnership.

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How are we doing? A tool to reflect on the process, progress and priorities of your multi-stakeholder forum

  • Analytical

This handbook (also mentioned in output 5.2) provides the background, guidance and facilitation materials necessary to implement How are we doing?, a participatory reflection tool designed to enable multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) to create the necessary conditions for achieving their goals. The handbook includes several exercises that invite participants to discuss and reflect upon key indicators from their projects. The purpose of this reflection is to learn from the past, consider progress and obstacles to further progress, and collectively plan how to achieve the MSF’s goals in the future.

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Managing Power Imbalances

  • Guide

This tool will help partners acknowledge, identify and explore sources of power and design appropriate mechanisms to address, and actions to mitigate, problematic power imbalances.

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Partnership Review Template

  • Template

This tool is designed for reviewing the partnership to assess whether it is achieving the goals and expectations of the individual partner organizations. It is essentially a ‘health check’ of the partnership rather than a more formal audit of particular projects or programs the partners have undertaken.

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Partnering Roles and Skills Questionnaire

  • Analytical

This questionnaire is designed for individuals involved in partnerships to assess their own partnering skills in order to build confidence about strengths and strategies and to address any weaknesses. It can be used by the partners as a group to build a picture of the competencies within the partnership and to identify which individual is best equipped to undertake which tasks or roles. It can also be a tool for enabling partners to recognize when specific skills might need to be brought in from outside the partnership.

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Partnership Health Check

  • Analytical
  • Co-design

This tool aims to review the ‘health’ of the partnership and determine areas for discussion and improvement.