Four training sessions of public/private partnerships development support so as to promote fundamental rights are proposed. Each session deals with a specific aspect of the life of a partnership.
6 September 2007 - "Integration of new partners" - Paris, France
The integration of new partners is the most frequently used means to develop an action for the promotion of fundamental rights. After having reviewed all the stakes linked to this important stage, the training supplies the delegates the keys to successfully integrate new partners. PROGRAMME - PRESENTATION - MINUTES
27 September 2007 - "Partnership assessment" - Bucharest, Romania
The assessment has become a decisive tool for the members of a partnership. It introduces genuine transparency which renders the players responsible and simultaneously contributes to a permanent improvement of the partnership mechanism. PROGRAMME - PRESENTATION - MINUTES
16 October 2007 - "Crisis management" - Hamburg, Germany
The risk that a crisis will appear is inherent to every organisation and particularly in partnerships where heterogeneous interests coexist. This training provides an opportunity to get to understand and to prepare the delegates to manage a potential crisis. PROGRAMME - PRESENTATION - MINUTES
15 November 2007 - "Sufficient financial resources" - London, United Kingdom
Partnerships usually combine financial means from different sources and of variable duration. This brings a degree of uncertainty to their present and future financial situation. This training offers to delegates the means to manage the specificities of their financing structure. PROGRAMME - PRESENTATION - MINUTES
PROGRAMME : 09/06/07 - "Integration of new partners" - Paris, France
Supporting the sustainability of public/private partnerships (PPP’s) to promote fundamental rights:
how can we include new partners into an existing PPP?
08:30 Reception of delegates
09:00 Presentation of delegates, objectives of the training session
09:15 How can we move on from heterogeneous interests to the creation of common interests to ensure convergent motivations within the partnership?
• How can complementarities be maximised with the inclusion of new various institutional partners?
• How can we ensure that partners share a common identity, while maintaining territorial roots?
• How can we encourage unsolicited applications from potential partners willing to join the partnership?
• How can we ensure that new partners share the values of an existing partnership?
• How can we avoid conflicts of interests between new and ‘old’ partners?
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 How can we change existing arrangements and include new partners into decision-making processes?
• How can we encourage the inclusion of new partners into partnership arrangements?
• How can we adjust existing arrangements to meet the desires of all stakeholders?
• How can we arrange for stakeholders to be represented within the partnership?
• How can we restore a certain balance between internal forces via the inclusion of new partners?
12:30 Lunch
13:45 How can contributions from new partners be secured within a partnership?
• How can we be satisfied that applicants for inclusion are in a position to provide contributions as promised?
• How can we ensure that action will continue with the inclusion of new partners?
• How could the inclusion of certain partners facilitate integration or cooperation with other institutions?
• How can we appraise the effects of the inclusion of new partners on the structure of costs?
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 How can we establish clear and well-defined communication modes for new partners, to remove any ambiguity in the future?
• How can we foster the inclusion of new partners by creating interpersonal relationships?
• How can we inform new partners of the operating mode and function of a PPP?
• How can new partners be included into existing feedback mechanisms in a PPP?
17:00 End of training day
PROGRAMME : 09/27/07 - "Partnership assessment" - Bucharest, Romania
Supporting the sustainability of public/private partnerships (PPP’s) to promote fundamental rights:
how can we assess the performance of a PPP ?
08:30 Reception of delegates
09:00 Presentation of delegates, objectives of the training session
09:15 How can we choose the assessment method best adjusted to the PPP to avoid departing from the key objective?
• How and when can an informal internal assessment be carried out?
• How and when can a formal internal assessment be carried out via reports?
• How and when can an external appraiser be used?
• How can we reconcile an independent assessment with its participative nature to guarantee that it is valid?
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 How can we plan the assessment to guarantee that approaches used agree with results obtained?
• How can we choose between internal or external assessment systems? When and how can we combine them?
• How can the cost effectiveness of the review be maximised?
• How can the skills of partners be used to pass the partnership audit?
• How can we guarantee that assessors are independent?
• How can we appraise the relevance of existing internal auditing procedures?
12:30 Lunch
13:45 How can we determine relevant indicators to assess the PPP in quantitative terms?
• Can we/should we assess everything?
• What figures should the review be based on?
• How can we assess the financial position of the partnership?
• How can certain quantitative elements provide some indications as to the quality of the partnership?
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 How can we perform a qualitative analysis of the cooperation of stakeholders for an exhaustive assessment of the PPP?
• What standards should be used to define the ‘quality’ of work done?
• How can we define qualitative assessment standards such as information flows, independence of the organisation, coordination of heterogeneous interests, collective decision-making process, etc.?
• In what way can political and cultural backgrounds have an impact on the assessment of a PPP?
• How can we reach a certain balance between auditing and building trust between stakeholders?
17:00 End of training day
PROGRAMME : 10/16/07 - "Crisis management"- Hamburg, Germany
Supporting the sustainability of public/private partnerships (PPP’s) to promote fundamental rights:
how to handle crises within a PPP?
08:30 Reception of delegates
09:00 Presentation of delegates, objectives of the training session
09:30 – Analysis
• How can we identify alarm warnings of a potential crisis within a partnership?
• How can stakeholders identify the existence or development of a crisis jeopardizing the long-term action of the partnership?
• How can the development of the action and/or partnership generate risks of crisis?
10:30 - Coffee Break
10:45 – Tools and Communication
• Can a crisis be prevented in the partnership via the optimum use of management tools?
• How does optimum strategic planning contribute to the minimisation of risks of crisis within the partnership?
• How can regular assessments of the action and partnership help to avoid crises within the partnership?
• Can an open communication mode prevent or eliminate a potential source of conflict within a partnership?
• How can we introduce a system enabling open and regular communications with partners?
• Can interpersonal relationships between partners make it possible to facilitate crisis handling?
12:30 - Lunch Break
13:45 – Solutions
• How can a crisis be solved within a partnership while meeting the desires of all parties, to avoid detrimental effects on the action?
• How can the source of the crisis be positively identified?
• How can we identify potential solutions and find common ground?
• How can we apply and enforce the solution which has been opted for?
15:15 - Coffee Break
15:30 – Applying the Lessons Learned for the Next European Social Fund Funding Period
• Has the given date of the end of a project partnership lead to a crisis?
• How can the partners be prepared for such a foreseeable crisis?
• Which are the proven measures in such a crisis?
• Can the lessons learned in the past, be utilized for future partnerships?
• How can the lessons learned be transferred into a new partnership?
• How can the co-operation with proven partners be continued?
• How can the core competences of additional potential partners be identified?
17:00 - End of Training Day
PROGRAMME : 11/15/07 - "Sufficient financial resources" - London, United Kingdom
Supporting the sustainability of public/private partnerships (PPP’s) to promote fundamental rights:
how can we guarantee sufficient financial resources?
08:30 Reception of delegates
09:00 Presentation of delegates, objectives of the training session
09:15 How can we assess financial requirements for the action supported by the PPP to ensure that financial resources agree with the objectives of the project?
• How can we make financial forecasts for the action, considering the impact of the past financial years?
• How can we estimate capital requirements and operating needs?
• How can we take into account partnership development prospects to determine funding requirements?
• How can we assess any financial impacts of threats jeopardising the long-term existence of the partnership?
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 How can we select financing modes best adjusted to the objectives of the partnership?
• What financial sources should be called for: new partners, loans, sponsorship, call for donations, public issue, etc.?
• How can we establish a financing policy to cover capital needs and operating needs?
• How can we avoid mistaking diverse financing sources for sustainable financial resources?
• How can modes of financing be selected?
12:30 Lunch
13:45 How can we put into effect the solution to financing requirements to continue the action supported by the PPP in the long run?
• What barriers should be overcome when looking for financial sources?
• How can we include new financial resources?
• How can we avoid too diverse funding sources?
• How can we guarantee recurring operating means?
• How can we define the optimum moment to start searching for new financial resources?
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 How can we guarantee regular inclusions of new financial resources to avoid any risk of bankruptcy or insolvency?
• How is it ensured that payments coming from new financial resources are followed through?
• How can we guarantee to fund providers that their resources will be properly applied?
• How can assessment be a tool for the sustainability of financial resources?
17:00 End of training day
