Rationale for partnerships | Guiding principles | Rules of engagement | Strategies of engagement

 

Maji na Ufanisi’s strength lies in our ability to work with disadvantaged communities as equal partners to help them improve their quality of life by creating innovative water and environmental sanitation solutions. To do this we bring together these communities, government and donor agencies, peer NGOs and the private sector.

Rationale for partnerships:

As a non-governmental organization working towards improving the quality of life of the disadvantaged through participatory innovative pro-poor water and environment sanitation solution, Maji na Ufanisi found it important to form strong partnerships with those pursuing similar goals and share the same vision, these include; NGOs, government agencies, corporations, foundations or individuals. Building strong partnerships ensures the cross-sectoral support and knowledge-sharing necessary for strong, high-quality projects and programs. At the same time, it allows Maji na Ufanisi to avoid duplicating existing efforts and affords the Organization the ability to lend its support to groups or projects which it values as it complements its work with other entities.

Ensuring strong working relationships with partner organizations has been demonstrated in its partnership with the local, lateral, bi-lateral and multi-lateral partners to advance the work of Maji Na Ufanisi

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Guiding principles:

The Organization has set priorities that will act as a guide for building strong partnerships globally:

• Pursuing a high degree of professionalism in forming and maintaining relationships with partners;
• Facilitating experience sharing and learning opportunities with potential partners.
• Facilitating a formalized and enhanced role in service provision.

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Rules of Engagement;

The following are important issues considered in partnership building;

• Appropriateness of the scope of work.
• Shared values between the organizations.
• Transparency and accountability in each organizations actions.
• Responsiveness to issues that affect the target communities.
• Organizational cohesion.

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Strategies of Engagement:

Strategies employed to make partnerships successful are as follows:

• Ensuring strong communication and knowledge-sharing forums with partners.
• Ensuring high-quality and timely reporting to partners;
• Broadly sharing relevant information related to Maji na Ufanisi projects and programs with existing and potential partners;
• Contributing to work with other like-minded organizations and building relationships to ensure strong partnership.
• Creating an enabling environment to allow for leveraging funding that would lead to greater impacts of the projects.

 

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