BAB: Bread and Butter-Save the Children

Working in partnership is central to Save the Children’s Theory of Change, and to our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We believe that through working with organizations with different strengths and perspectives from our own, we will have a greater impact on the lives of children and build a strong independent movement for change.

Around the world, Save the Children has over 900 partners. Together, we create opportunities, innovate new solutions, and dedicate our efforts for child rights.

OUR PARTNERSHIP PRINCIPLES:

1- Value driven and empowering relationships

2- Transparency and accountability

3- Mutual benefit

OBJECTIVES:

• Support the development of a strong independent civil society working to promote the best interests of children
• As the corner stone of our localization approach, develop decision- making channels to local humanitarian actors; supporting locally-led humanitarian response in Lebanon.
• Identify partners and build appropriate relationships and networks for programming, policy, advocacy and campaigns
• Provide and exchange technical expertise
• Support our partners transform their knowledge and experience into long-term growth for their organizations.

ACTIVITIES:

The Partnership Engagement Cycle

Working in partnership is at the core of Save the Children’s understanding of how change happens. Our ambitions for children will not be secured by us alone. Consequently, it is important that we have a clear understanding of what makes a partnership work and of our own strengths and weaknesses. This is reflected in the following key elements of the partnership process:

• Focus on the relationship and the clarity of purpose of the partnership
• Open online system for mapping and partner scoping, where any organization can apply to become a partner
• Implementation of strategies achieving the expected outputs and outcomes
• Participatory capacity assessment pre and post partnership 
• Joint Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and approach to feedback, learning and change
• Clear ideas or plans for phasing out
• The availability of useful tools and methods to support the above