How do you respond when a community asks you to help them to access health services, education and jobs when your programme doesn’t have funding for these things? Managers of the Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPR), a large programme managed by UNDP in Bangladesh, did so by becoming expert partnership brokers. They helped to create win-win collaborations between the communities themselves and local NGOs, Government departments and companies.
Tom Harrison was so impressed with this approach that he has written a paper explaining what he found when he was commissioned by UNDP to evaluate this programme. He explains how the brokering works in practice and why he thinks this is a valuable lesson for any organisations seeking to ‘do development differently’ in the new SDG world.
Read the paper here: Partnership Brokering in UPPR