Partnership Resources

This brief guide provides practical tactics and tips that USAID staff can apply throughout the program cycle to increase local leadership and private sector participation. 

A practical guide developed by Innovation Norway on how to effectively manage Intellectual Property RIghts (IPR) issues in a way that protects the interests of all parties, specifically designed for humanitarian programming contexts.

A comprehensive guide from the UKAid’s Ideas to Impact project on how to use Innovation Prize methodology to support existing innovations in development and humanitarian programming.

This tool. developed by the Spindle helps organizations analyze the power dynamics in a partnership. It can be used to help ensure that an open co-creation process is possible.

In 2018, Norwegian Church AId published a report and checklist developed in partnership with KPMG to help NGOs and private sector actors work better together.

A comprehensive set of tools and guidance to support the development and assessment of sustainable business models, created by the Principles for Digital Development. The focus is on digital solutions but the content can also apply to analog innovations.

The Elrha Guide to Constructing Effective Partnerships (2012) is a resource to support collaboration between humanitarian and academic organisations.

This guide developed with TINKR and The National Programme for Supplier Development takes you through the different steps of doing an innovation-friendly procurement process in the humanitarian sector