Keynote Address

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• Keynote Address
• The Hon. Bernard Chan

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Framework

• The Need for Partnership Social Partnerships
• The Definition Essential Elements
• Key Success Factors
• Operational Challenges

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1. The Need for Partnership Responding to New
Realities
The Balancing Act

• Reconciling economic competitions
• Balancing labour market flexibility
• Finding the right balance between Government
  provision of social services
• Reconciling the need for fiscal constraint
• Incentivising supporting the have-nots

with social cohesion with personal security
employment and fully privatized approaches
with costs of social security without
demonstrating or creating obstacles for the
haves
Vs Vs Vs
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2. The Need for Partnership Responding to New
Realities

• We need
• An alternative to market solves all and
  Government will provide approach
• Innovative and practical solutions
• Shared responsibility and joint efforts
• Common societal aims that transcends diverse
  stakeholders interests

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3. The Definition of Social Partnerships

• Europe Copenhagen Centre
• Partnership Alchemy Study
• People and organizations from some combination
  of public, business and civil constituencies who
  engage in voluntary, mutually beneficial,
  innovative relationships to address common
  societal aims through combining their resources
  and competencies.

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4. The Definition of Social Partnerships

• Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government Local
  Research Engagement Study
• Tri-partite Partnership is a collaborative
  effort among representatives from the public
  sector (government), private sector (business)
  and Third sector (non-government, non-business
  sector) to achieve shared and compatible
  objectives that contribute to the common good of
  the community. There are three different levels
  of partnership, namely consultative,
  collaborative and strategic.

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5. The Essence of Social Partnerships

• Shared societal AIMS to achieve societal benefits
  
• Multi-constituency
• Voluntary
• Mutual benefit and shared investment
• Innovation
• Alchemical or Synergy effect

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6. The Partnership Experience Key Features of
Success
CONTEXT - drivers triggers that have brought
individuals organizations together
Senior Citizen Residences

• Participants
• Housing Society
• NGOs
• architect

• Ageing population
• Elders need for quality living
• Governments support in land policy
• NGOs experience in serving the elders

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7. The Partnership Experience Key Features of
Success
PURPOSE common goals, scope of activities and
desired outcome to be mutually agreed with
clarity and openness.
Capacity Building Mileage Programme

• Participants
• Womens Commission
• Lottery Fund
• The Open University of Hong Kong
• Commercial Radio
• NGOs
• Women

• Common goalProvide self-learning opportunities
  for women

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8. The Partnership Experience Key Features of
Success
PARTICIPANTS Require leadership to inspire,
mediate and facilitate and engagement of all
partners to pool resources, skills and capacities
to meet the partnership objectives
Lei Tung Street H15 Project

• Participants
• Lei Tung Street H15 Focus Group
• NGOs
• Professionals
• Cultural groups
• Commercial sector

• Led by the Focus Group, community groups actively
  sound out their voices and involved in the
  Project.

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9. The Partnership Experience Key Features of
Success
PROCESS Appropriate organizational and legal
structure of the partnership platform need to be
formed with clear communication strategies and
systems to ensure transparency, representation
and accountability both within the partnership
and externally
Council for Sustainable Development The
Engagement Process

• Participants
• Council for Sustainable Development
• Government
• Academics
• Professionals
• Commercial Sector
• Local groups NGOs

• Encourage public participation to discuss the 3
  pilot areas
• Interactive discussion through open forum,
  workshops and internet
• Minutes report are available for public access

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10. The Partnership Experience Key Features of
Success
OUTCOMES - Agreement on measurement and
evaluation methodologies in the partnership
processes and outcomes against common individual
agenda. Allowance for adaptation of partnerships
purpose, process thus outcomes due to changes
in external context
The Arts-in-Education Programme

• Participants
• Hong Kong Arts Development Council
• Education and Manpower Bureau
• The Hong Kong institute of Education
• The Hongkong Bank Foundation

• Overall evaluation was conducted by HKIE on the
  programme process, partnership between the
  schools and the artists as well as the impact on
  the development of students and teachers

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11. Essence of Successful Partnership

• FACILITATING CONTEXT
• COMMON PURPOSE
• PARTICIPANTS ENGAGEMENT
• EFFECTIVE PROCESS
• MEASURABLE OUTCOMES WITH SOCIETAL PARTICIPANTS
  BENEFITS

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12. Dilemmas of Partnerships Operational
Challenges

• Bridging diversity
• Attracting sustaining participant involvement
• Building new competencies
• Addressing power
• Assessing value-added

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13. Investing in Partnerships

• Favourable public policy framework leadership
  recognition
• Facilitating infrastructure and resources
• Capacity building
• Promoting corporate social responsibility
• Improving Third Sector accountability and network
  
• Scaling up and applying successful models to
  future initiatives