Process steering at the start of a partnership, defined as process management, played another crucial role in explaining the final success of a partnership.
If the start date of a more recent partnership preceded the end date of an earlier partnership, the partnerships were defined as concurrent, and the duration of overlap was defined as the difference between these two dates.
Three broad types of research-policy partnerships, sometimes defined as ' research-decision-maker partnerships'[ 28], can be distinguished: 1.
Cumulative concurrent partnerships were defined as participation in overlapping sexual partnerships in the 12 months before the UAIS survey was conducted.
Such partnerships are defined as Solution Oriented Partnerships (or SOP).
Community partnerships are defined as groups working together with shared goals, responsibilities, and power to improve the community.
Community partnerships are defined as groups working together with shared goals, responsibilities, and power to improve the community [ 7].
Partnerships are defined as "voluntary and collaborative relationships between various parties in which all participants agree to work together to achieve a common purpose or undertake a specific task".
Partnership is defined as obtaining where the union negotiates pay and management negotiates with or consults the union on recruitment, training, payment systems, handling grievances, staff planning, equal opportunities, health and safety, and performance appraisals.
In this study a partnership is defined as a collaborative arrangement, agreed between the parties (in this case, MOH and researchers in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia), established to achieve common objectives and with agreed roles and inputs from the parties.
