Practical examples of PPPs in action

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International Organizations Management

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University of Geneva

International Organizations Management

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This course provides an introduction to International Organizations and the United Nations, and explores how business and management tools can be applied in these settings to achieve better, more effective results. With a focus on cross-sector partnerships in a changing world, the course offers you insights into the inner workings of international organizations and the challenges they face today. It will introduce you to effective, state-of-the art management tools and principles to help you lead change in this world – taught by senior staff of international organizations themselves. This is an introductory course offered by the International Organizations MBA (IO-MBA) of the University of Geneva, an executive program for change-makers in international organizations, NGOs and social ventures.

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Public Private Partnerships

The shifting context for international organizations makes collaboration on global challenges more important, but also more difficult. In addition to collaboration between nation states in traditional international organisations, public private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as an innovative model for collaboration that transcends the conventional boundaries of the public sector, private sector and civil society. In this module, you will learn about the role of cross-sector partnerships in addressing today's complex challenges as well as the unique management approaches that are needed to bring diverse stakeholders together. We will set out theoretical frameworks to assess the opportunities and challenges of partnership, and apply these frameworks to examples of partnerships between international organisations and business, public agencies, and civil society.

Sectoral strengths and differences in PPPs8:29

Practical examples of PPPs in action6:52

Meet the Instructors

Gilbert Probst
Professor, Organization and Management
Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences
Sebastian Buckup
Visiting professor
International Organizations MBA
Bruce Jenks
Visiting professor
International Organizations MBA
Stephan Mergenthaler
Visiting professor
International Organizations MBA
Cassandra Quintanilla
Teaching and research assistant
International Organizations MBA
Lea Stadtler
Research Fellow
Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences
Claudia Gonzalez Romo
Visiting professor
International Organizations MBA
Julian Fleet
Visiting professor
International Organizations MBA
Tina Ambos
Academic Director of the International Organizations MBA
Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences

Now, we will have a look at the public-private partnership example.

What does it take to work across sectors?

We look at the logistics,

emergency teams, the LETs we mentioned before, an example,

which you have seen in the video already,

and I think we can go here much deeper and analyze what happens here.

The Logistics Emergency Teams are

a partnership between the World Food Program, the Logistics Cluster.

So moreover, you can also find challenges and obstacles

in the environment of the partnership.

So for instance, the social, ecological, political contexts.

So imagine you have a natural disaster in the country where you have a partnership,

or there is re-elections in the political system,

or other challenges that are more external.

Building on these terms is an obstacle.

What this literature say with regard to overcoming or avoiding these challenges?

Let's have a look at the first three challenges.

And what is very interesting to see in the literature is that,

it stresses the importance of building trusting relationships to actually

avoid the challenges that come up with

regard to the representatives with different partners involved.

And here, we will have a closer look at

the concept developed by Vangen and Huxham, the Trust Building loops.

So here, the idea is that you start

your partnership with modest but realistic objectives at the beginning.

Then, with ongoing interaction between the partners,

you actually create the basis of trust and mutual understanding,

that will then help you to go for more ambitious objectives,

and that actually creates a circle where you sequentially broaden your partnership scope.

Besides this cycle and this process,

it's also very important to have committed partnerships individuals who are involved.

It's important to have structured guidelines that help

you manage the operations and the governing structures.

Last but not least,

it's important to really engage in

a constant nurturing of relationships between the partners in order

to anticipate tensions and try to avoid challenges that you see coming across.

I would say with this term,

we conclude and close

the second session on International Organizations and Public-Private partnership.

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