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Four dimensions (actor groups) for sector promotion
Potentials &Opportunities
Organisational development
partners, associations target group
Development of human resources
strategic cooperations
Network development
frame conditions, laws,
System development
Empowernent
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Periphery Periphery
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organisationIndividual networks
Cooperation networks
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actors decide on membership
actors look for own results but are not independant from other actors (interdependence)
mutual decisions are negotiated
Projects- and programs of development cooperation are cooperation systems
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Evolution steps of cooperation networks
Information exchange basis for all kind of fur- ther cooperation: Investitions in time, communi-cation, contacts and building up of confidence
FORMS OF COOPERATION UTILITY
Actors use information and build up mutual confidence
Knowledge /Information exchange: Efforts to exchange explicit and implicit knowledge – creation Communities of Practice.
Actors use information exchange in practical work.
Coordination: mutual efforts to inform about own plans and coordinate activities
Actors work independantly knowing what others are doing and adjusts their work accordingly.
Actors use comparative advantages and act together on the basis commonly agreed projects and resources
Co-Production: joint investitions (pooling) in planning and implementation of orojects based on concerted strategies
Actors implement independantly but collaborate in specific fields to create synergies .
Strategic alliance: investitions in the concertation of planning and resource allocation.
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How does change in organisations and networks work?
UNFREEZE
Questions & self diagnosistake serious various
perceptions discussion of options and formulation of anticipated
change
MOVE
Steering of the change process (speed, used energy, reporting of
positive results...) and creating synergies
between CP
STABILISATION Freeze
Celebration of successes
AdjustmentsNew rules to safeguard
the innovations
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CP „Change“ project
Resistance and factors against
change
Power and factors favoring change
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CP 3CP 4
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• Commonly set objectives in order to create inclusion
• Valorisation of the diversity of actors inside the network – creation of complementarity
• Supporting of mutual confidence in between members – favouring of informal exchange to keep transaction costs low
Infor-mal
• Negotiated agreements/procedures/minimum conditions for: (i) evolving membership, (ii) thematic focus, (iii) information exchange and (iv) communication channels
• Procedures/rules for decision making
formal
• Medium term working plan taking account of member‘s capacitiesand possible contributions
• Agreement on coordination unit (assumed roles, control mechanisms...)
• Transparent distribution of costs and use of network
oper-ational
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