Impact Partnerships Lab
A guided tool for building and managing effective partnerships for development impact. Map potential partners, conduct due diligence, design partnership models, and plan monitoring and learning.
Partnership Mapping
Identify potential partners across sectors. Consider who brings complementary strengths, resources, networks, and geographic reach for your programme goals. Think about the South Asian development ecosystem: government line departments, district administrations, national and state-level CSOs, bilateral and multilateral agencies, corporate CSR arms, universities, and grassroots community organisations.
Potential Partners by Sector
Due Diligence Assessment
Evaluate each potential partner on five dimensions critical for effective development partnerships in South Asia. Score each dimension from 1 (weak) to 5 (strong). Partners are automatically ranked by total score.
No partners to assess. Add potential partners in the Mapping phase first, then return here to evaluate them.
Partnership Design
Define the partnership structure, governance arrangements, roles, resource sharing, and conflict resolution mechanisms. Common models in South Asian development include consortia (for large multi-district programmes), sub-granting (lead agency to implementing partners), MoUs with government departments, joint ventures with private sector, and community-based co-management structures.
No partnership designs created yet. Define your first partnership arrangement below.
Monitoring & Learning
Create partnership health indicators, feedback mechanisms, joint review processes, a learning agenda, and exit/transition planning. Healthy partnerships require intentional monitoring beyond programme outputs -- track the relationship itself, power dynamics, mutual accountability, and adaptive learning.
No monitoring plans created yet. Define partnership health indicators and learning mechanisms below.