Chapter 8: Collaborative (Cooperative) Partnerships with

stakeholders
Introduction
An individual or an institute cannot do everything they
want for the success of inclusiveness. They require
collaboration and partnership. Collaborative is
becoming an effective team player for the intended
success.
Collaboration referred to as collaborative consultation,
cooperative planning, implementation, assessment, co-
teaching and any kind of team-based services or
community of practice. It has potential to create
synergy – where the whole is greater than the sum of
the parts.
 It has the potential to provide opportunities for
you to learn new ways of addressing barriers to
learning, working, living and for colleagues to learn
from each other. Collaboration should be with all
human being for the success of inclusiveness.
Collaboration should be based on avoiding
stereotype thinking that discriminate or undermine
the capacities of human being, demands equality,
equity and creating mutual respect. Besides
collaboration, cooperation is also vital for human
being to meet life goal.
Chapter objectives
At the end of this unit you will be able to:
•Define collaboration, partnership and stakeholder
•Identify key elements of successful collaboration
•Describe the benefits and challenges of
collaboration for various stakeholders for the
success of inclusion
•Discus the strategies for effective co-planning and
team working
•Identify characteristics of successful partnerships
•Design strategies for community involvement
Activities
1. What is collaboration from your own
understanding?
2. Have you every create collaboration with
people? For what purpose? What have you
achieved?
3. What was the successful of your collaborations?
4. What will be your future collaboration?
 Definition of collaboration, partnership and stack holder

Collaboration is defined as ―the act of working

together to produce or create something according
to the capacities and abilities of individuals. Each
individual‘s collaboration is based on his knowledge
and skills. A person should not be discriminated
due to mismatch with other people‘s abilities;
because he has his own quality in other
perspectives.
Collaboration means 'to work with another person
or group in order to achieve accomplish intended
goals.
 Collaboration provides every team member with
equal opportunities to participate and
communicate their ideas. Collaboration in the
workplace is when two or more people (often
groups) work together through idea sharing and
thinking to accomplish a common goal. It is simply
teamwork taken to a higher level.
The phrase 'putting our heads together' would be a
good example of this important element of
collaboration.
Collaboration enables individuals to work together to
achieve a defined and common business purpose. It
exists in two forms:
•Synchronous, where everyone interacts in real time,
as in through telephone, email, online meetings,
through instant texts messages, or via Viber, and
• The team sees value in working together as the
common goal gives them a meaningful reason to
work together, along with receiving mutual benefits
for the institution as well as the team.
The advantages of collaboration can also be seen in
terms of individual output. Creating a sense of
teamwork and building bonds encourages team
members to work for the collective rather than just
themselves.
Activities
1. Mention some important experiences of
collaboration in your community?
2. What are the important elements of
collaboration in your community?
3. What is your intention to create collaboration
with people in your life?
Key elements of successful collaboration
The relationship includes a commitment to:
mutual relationships and goals; a jointly
developed structure and shared responsibility;
mutual authority and accountability for success;
and sharing of resources and rewards.
A Collaboration Checklist What factors are helping
or hindering your collaboration efforts?
We've got the four most important elements of
teamwork to help you build a team that will lead your
company to success.
•Respect. This one should be a no-brainer. ...
• Communication. While respect is probably the most
important element of teamwork, communication is the
tool that will generate that respect. ...
•Delegation. ...
•Support.
To kick off our All about collaboration series, we
consider the nature of successful collaboration, its
benefits and what is needed within an organization for
it to flourish. Collaboration in the workplace is when
two or more people work together through idea
sharing and thinking to achieve a common goal.
Here are a few qualities that a successful team
possesses.
1. They communicate well with each other. ...
2. They focus on goals and results. ...
3. Everyone contributes their fair share. ...
4. They offer each other support. ...
5. Team members are diverse. ...
6. Good leadership. ...
7. They're organized. ...
8. They have fun.
 General principles of collaboration
•Establish clear common goals for the collaboration.
•Define your respective roles and who is accountable
for what, but accept joint responsibility for the
decisions and their outcomes
•Take a problem-solving approach – with a sense that
all those in the collaborative arrangement share
ownership of the problem and its solution.
•Establish an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect
for each others‘ expertise.
•Aim for consensus decision-making.
•Ask for and give immediate and objective feedback to
others in a nonthreatening and non-judgmental
manner.
• Give credit to others for their ideas and
accomplishments
•Develop procedures for resolving conflicts and
manage these processes skillfully.
•Better still, anticipate possible conflicts and take
steps to avoid them as far as possible. This is not
to say that disagreements can, or even should, be
avoided.
•Arrange periodic meetings to review progress in
the collaborative arrangements.
What are the advantages of collaboration?
•Higher employee productivity
•The advantages of collaboration can also be seen
in terms of individual output.
•Creating a sense of teamwork and building bonds
encourages team members to work for the
collective rather than just themselves
Benefits of collaboration
•Greater efficiency and less duplicated effort.
•Access to additional resources or lower costs
through sharing resources such as office space,
administration or other aspects of an organization‘s
operation.
•Improved service coordination across agencies,
with better pathways or referral systems for service
users.
Challenges to Team Collaboration
•"E-fail" This is a little term used for when email
straight up fails. ...
•Mis (sing) communication. When collaborating,
there is always room for misinterpretation and
miscommunication.
•Process sinking vs. process syncing.
•Too many cooks. etc
 Cooperativeness
Cooperation is one of the components of
collaboration. As an adjective, cooperative
describes working together agreeably for a
common purpose or goal as in cooperative play or
cooperative employee. As a noun, a cooperative is
a jointly owned business or enterprise where
members pool their resources to purchase, do
work, and/or distribute things.
Cooperativeness helps individuals to willing learn from
each other. Learners work together in small groups,
helping each other to carry out individual and group
tasks.
Interdependence: all group members seek to achieve a
group goal and help each others‘ achievement;
Individual accountability: each member of the group is
held responsible for his or her own learning, which in
turn contributes to the group goal; Cooperation: the
learners discuss, problem-solve and collaborate with
each other; Face to face interaction and establish
consensus; and
Evaluation: members of the group review and evaluate
how they worked together and make changes as
needed. It requires interdependence, which can take
one or more forms that help to create inclusiveness:
1. Goal interdependence: the group has a single
goal.
2. Reward interdependence: the whole group
receives acknowledgement for achieving the
goal
3. Resource interdependence: each group member
has different resources (knowledge or materials)
that must be combined to complete a task
4. Role interdependence: each group member is
assigned a different role (e.g, leader, reporter,
time-keeper)
In cooperative learning and works, the strategies for effective
co-planning and team working are very important.
The following steps will help you and your group to work
effectively together.
1. Have clear objectives
2. At each stage you should try to agree on goals
3. Set ground rules
4. Communicate efficiently
5. Build consensus
6. Define roles
7. Clarify your plans, process and achievements all the time
8. Keep good records
9. Stick to the plan
Reflection
Do you think collaboration and cooperation move
us towards inclusive life? How?
Stakeholder
A stakeholder is any person, organization, social
group, or society at large that has a stake in the
business. Thus, stakeholders can be internal or
external to the business. A stake is a vital interest
in the business or its activities. Be both affected by
a business and affect a business. A business is any
organization where people work together. In a
business, people work to make and sell products
or services.
Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the
organization's actions, objectives and policies.
Some examples of key stakeholders are creditors,
directors, employees, government (and its
agencies), owners (shareholders), suppliers,
unions, and the community from which the
business draws its resources.
In business, a stakeholder is usually an investor in
your company whose actions determine the
outcome of your business decisions. Stakeholders
don't have to be equity shareholders. They can
also be your employees, who have a stake in your
company's success and incentive for your products
to succeed
Activities
1. Do people have stakeholders in their daily
business? Please describe from your
communities perspective
2. Do these stakeholders meet their goals? How?
3. Do you have stakeholders in your university
experiences? Who are they?
4. Explain the benefits and challenges of
collaboration for various stakeholders for the
success of inclusive life
Roles of Stakeholders in a Project
Stakeholders are usually parties who have a stake
in a project and have a great influence on its
success or failure. They may be equity or
preference shareholders, employees, the
government agencies, contractors, financial
institutions, competitors, suppliers and the general
public
What are the benefits of stakeholder participation?
•Provide all stakeholders with full opportunities to share
their views, needs and knowledge on flood management.
•Build consensus through bringing together a diverse range
of stakeholders to share needs, information, ideas and
knowledge and harmonize the objectives of individual
groups to reach common societal goals.
Characteristics of successful stockholders partnerships
•Existence of an agreement: Partnership is the outcome of
an agreement between two or more persons to carry on
business or offer services for the community
•Sharing of profits or stratification for the services offered to
the community
•Establishing equal and equitable relationship
Membership without discrimination
• Nature of liability
What are the main features of a partnership?
Participants described the right partnership
behaviors principally as being effective
coordination and chairing, and a set of personal
skills and qualities including good listening, clear
communication, honesty, patience, enthusiasm,
acceptance and love.
A strategic alliance implies that: the success of the
alliance impacts one or more major business or
service goals. The success of the alliance develops
or reinforces a core competency, especially one
which provides a competitive advantage and / or
blocks a competitive threat
Strategies for community involvement inclusive
development
•Commit to participation of all persons with
diversities
•Establish non-discriminative effective
communication with all people with divers back
ground
•Expect to do most of the work yourself following
the inclusive principle
•Tap into local networks, culture and indigenous
experiences of inclusiveness
•Use all possible communication channel including
sign language for deaf people
A business can earn a profit for the products and
services it offers. The word business comes from
the word busy, and means doing things. It works on
regular basis. All human being can participate in
any kind of business equally without discrimination
based on their disability, culture, language,
religion, gender, rural, urban and the like.