A genuine partnership process between evaluators and those participating in an assessment can improve the quality of assessment and uptake of results in capacity strengthening.
While most of its fellow startups from Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch have already launched, GetGoing had a longer road because it had to create a model that would appeal to both airlines and consumers — and hold the hands of airlines through a slow partnership process.
The Leesburg talks will be the 14th round in a Trans-Pacific Partnership process that was initiated by APEC leaders at a summit meeting two years ago.
Whatever one thinks about "free trade," the secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership process represents a huge assault on the principles and practice of democratic governance.
Take a proactive approach to the partnership process.
SAP uses its existing partnership process to vet potential investments, "unlike a VC fund that sees a lot of business plans and tries to hit home runs," says Zia Yusuf, executive vice president for platform ecosystem at SAP. Yusuf co-manages the fund with Jim Mackey, SAP's head of corporate finance.
A husband and wife may form a partnership to process income from, say, the rental of a house like the Camerons' Notting Hill home, currently a lucrative let for the prime minister.
Why? A. When you're in a partnership, you have to go through that partnership process, and writing the size of checks that we're writing, there's a reason for the process.
The Citizens Trade Campaign, a U.S. umbrella group, has criticized the Trans-Pacific Partnership process as overly secretive and has called demonstrations against the Leesburg talks, fearing that a free trade deal could result in the loss of American jobs.
These indicators could be used consistently across a number of IHPs to build a better evidence base and conceptual framework linking the partnership process to partnership benefits.
