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The STAR project aims to better understand how to create and sustain respectful, mutually beneficial partnerships that will strengthen global health practice. One element of this work involves pairing academic institutions in order to develop, test and codify best practices for successful, sustainable partnerships. STAR’s strategic approach to studying these partnerships is called the Collaboration Laboratory.
For the duration of the one-year Collaboration Laboratory experiments in STAR’s second programming year, four pairs of academic institutions spent the year working toward a concrete goal or objective. STAR’s role was to document their successes, challenges, best practices and lessons learned. STAR convened three Learning Exchanges (LE) over the course of the year, a baseline, midline and endline. STAR utilized two key tools to accomplish this, the Capacity Assessment Toolkit (CAT) and the Partnership Assessment Toolkit (PAT). The tools addressed the need to assess both the academic institutions and the academic partnerships. They were developed by STAR staff, with input from CUGH’s STAR Committee.
The PAT was designed to guide the partners through a self-assessment to score and analyze the strengths and challenges within their partnership, followed by a joint discussion. The PAT contains a questionnaire with statements that correspond to key components for a well-functioning, equitable partnership. These statements, along with rating criteria that could be used to score a partnership’s strength and impact, were synthesized from findings from STAR’s Comprehensive Review of Academic Partnerships. This effort created a baseline of STAR’s overall understanding about what works well, and potential challenges encountered in different types of formalized academic partnerships. The PAT is a questionnaire with four sections: 1. Partnership Foundations; 2. Partnership Functioning; 3. Partnership Outputs; 4. Discussion Section.
The PAT was organized using the Bergen Model of Collaborative Functioning (BMCF), an analytical framework used to examine collaborations through a systems-thinking lens.
Each institution was instructed to fill out the PAT’s first section as a baseline measure of their partnership. They filled out the section(s) together, as joint partners, and agreed on the responses together. The PAT is an assessment of how each of the partners jointly feel about the partnership and not their individual institutions. |
https://datahub.usaid.gov/d/rydp-h4q7 |
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The STAR project aims to better understand how to create and sustain respectful, mutually beneficial partnerships that will strengthen global health practice. One element of this work involves pairing academic institutions in order to develop, test and codify best practices for successful, sustainable partnerships. STAR’s strategic approach to studying these partnerships is called the Collaboration Laboratory.
For the duration of the one-year Collaboration Laboratory experiments in STAR’s second programming year, four pairs of academic institutions spent the year working toward a concrete goal or objective. STAR’s role was to document their successes, challenges, best practices and lessons learned. STAR convened three Learning Exchanges (LE) over the course of the year, a baseline, midline and endline. STAR utilized two key tools to accomplish this, the Capacity Assessment Toolkit (CAT) and the Partnership Assessment Toolkit (PAT). The tools addressed the need to assess both the academic institutions and the academic partnerships. They were developed by STAR staff, with input from CUGH’s STAR Committee.
The PAT was designed to guide the partners through a self-assessment to score and analyze the strengths and challenges within their partnership, followed by a joint discussion. The PAT contains a questionnaire with statements that correspond to key components for a well-functioning, equitable partnership. These statements, along with rating criteria that could be used to score a partnership’s strength and impact, were synthesized from findings from STAR’s Comprehensive Review of Academic Partnerships. This effort created a baseline of STAR’s overall understanding about what works well, and potential challenges encountered in different types of formalized academic partnerships. The PAT is a questionnaire with four sections: 1. Partnership Foundations; 2. Partnership Functioning; 3. Partnership Outputs; 4. Discussion Section.
The PAT was organized using the Bergen Model of Collaborative Functioning (BMCF), an analytical framework used to examine collaborations through a systems-thinking lens.
Each institution was instructed to fill out the PAT’s first section as a baseline measure of their partnership. They filled out the section(s) together, as joint partners, and agreed on the responses together. The PAT is an assessment of how each of the partners jointly feel about the partnership and not their individual institutions. |
https://datahub.usaid.gov/d/eg3z-uv3m |
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The STAR project aims to better understand how to create and sustain respectful, mutually beneficial partnerships that will strengthen global health practice. One element of this work involves pairing academic institutions in order to develop, test and codify best practices for successful, sustainable partnerships. STAR’s strategic approach to studying these partnerships is called the Collaboration Laboratory.
For the duration of the one-year Collaboration Laboratory experiments in STAR’s second programming year, four pairs of academic institutions spent the year working toward a concrete goal or objective. STAR’s role was to document their successes, challenges, best practices and lessons learned. STAR convened three Learning Exchanges (LE) over the course of the year, a baseline, midline and endline. STAR utilized two key tools to accomplish this, the Capacity Assessment Toolkit (CAT) and the Partnership Assessment Toolkit (PAT). The tools addressed the need to assess both the academic institutions and the academic partnerships. They were developed by STAR staff, with input from CUGH’s STAR Committee.
The PAT was designed to guide the partners through a self-assessment to score and analyze the strengths and challenges within their partnership, followed by a joint discussion. The PAT contains a questionnaire with statements that correspond to key components for a well-functioning, equitable partnership. These statements, along with rating criteria that could be used to score a partnership’s strength and impact, were synthesized from findings from STAR’s Comprehensive Review of Academic Partnerships. This effort created a baseline of STAR’s overall understanding about what works well, and potential challenges encountered in different types of formalized academic partnerships. The PAT is a questionnaire with four sections: 1. Partnership Foundations; 2. Partnership Functioning; 3. Partnership Outputs; 4. Discussion Section.
The PAT was organized using the Bergen Model of Collaborative Functioning (BMCF), an analytical framework used to examine collaborations through a systems-thinking lens.
Each institution was instructed to fill out the PAT’s first section as a baseline measure of their partnership. They filled out the section(s) together, as joint partners, and agreed on the responses together. The PAT is an assessment of how each of the partners jointly feel about the partnership and not their individual institutions. |
https://datahub.usaid.gov/d/esny-h3q7 |
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The STAR project aims to better understand how to create and sustain respectful, mutually beneficial partnerships that will strengthen global health practice. One element of this work involves pairing academic institutions in order to develop, test and codify best practices for successful, sustainable partnerships. STAR’s strategic approach to studying these partnerships is called the Collaboration Laboratory.
For the duration of the one-year Collaboration Laboratory experiments in STAR’s second programming year, four pairs of academic institutions spent the year working toward a concrete goal or objective. STAR’s role was to document their successes, challenges, best practices and lessons learned. STAR convened three Learning Exchanges (LE) over the course of the year, a baseline, midline and endline. STAR utilized two key tools to accomplish this, the Capacity Assessment Toolkit (CAT) and the Partnership Assessment Toolkit (PAT). The tools addressed the need to assess both the academic institutions and the academic partnerships. They were developed by STAR staff, with input from CUGH’s STAR Committee.
The CAT includes a series of seven questions to assess knowledge management (KM) capacity within an institution. The objective of this toolkit was to assist academic institutions to assess the critical elements of KM and knowledge sharing and to identify gaps or areas that may need improvement. The questionnaire was adapted from the Knowledge Management Capacity Assessment Tool and tailored to academic institutions. The key areas of the assessment are: KM and Leadership; Knowledge Access; Knowledge Generating and Sharing Capabilities. The indicators are: 1. Knowledge Management Systems; 2. Knowledge Management Strategy; 3. Leadership Behavior; 4. Accessing Knowledge; 5. Knowledge Exchange; 6. Capturing Knowledge; 7. Innovative
Each institution was instructed to take the CAT as a baseline measure of its capacity to engage in KM and knowledge sharing. The results served as a starting point for knowledge sharing within the institution to identify KM needs and potential systems/platforms to better disseminate and share information. These resources could be adapted and adopted internally within the institutions and, if relevant, by the partnership over the course of the 12-month period. At the end of the experiments, the institutions were asked to complete the CAT once more to assess any changes to the three key areas. Not only was the CAT a learning tool for the institutions, but it allowed STAR an opportunity to evaluate the time and effort required, as well as obstacles, to affect this type of knowledge capacity change. |
https://datahub.usaid.gov/d/quk9-7bbn |
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The STAR project aims to better understand how to create and sustain respectful, mutually beneficial partnerships that will strengthen global health practice. One element of this work involves pairing academic institutions in order to develop, test and codify best practices for successful, sustainable partnerships. STAR’s strategic approach to studying these partnerships is called the Collaboration Laboratory.
For the duration of the one-year Collaboration Laboratory experiments in STAR’s second programming year, four pairs of academic institutions spent the year working toward a concrete goal or objective. STAR’s role was to document their successes, challenges, best practices and lessons learned. STAR convened three Learning Exchanges (LE) over the course of the year, a baseline, midline and endline. STAR utilized two key tools to accomplish this, the Capacity Assessment Toolkit (CAT) and the Partnership Assessment Toolkit (PAT). The tools addressed the need to assess both the academic institutions and the academic partnerships. They were developed by STAR staff, with input from CUGH’s STAR Committee.
The CAT includes a series of seven questions to assess knowledge management (KM) capacity within an institution. The objective of this toolkit was to assist academic institutions to assess the critical elements of KM and knowledge sharing and to identify gaps or areas that may need improvement. The questionnaire was adapted from the Knowledge Management Capacity Assessment Tool and tailored to academic institutions. The key areas of the assessment are: KM and Leadership; Knowledge Access; Knowledge Generating and Sharing Capabilities. The indicators are: 1. Knowledge Management Systems; 2. Knowledge Management Strategy; 3. Leadership Behavior; 4. Accessing Knowledge; 5. Knowledge Exchange; 6. Capturing Knowledge; 7. Innovative
Each institution was instructed to take the CAT as a baseline measure of its capacity to engage in KM and knowledge sharing. The results served as a starting point for knowledge sharing within the institution to identify KM needs and potential systems/platforms to better disseminate and share information. These resources could be adapted and adopted internally within the institutions and, if relevant, by the partnership over the course of the 12-month period. At the end of the experiments, the institutions were asked to complete the CAT once more to assess any changes to the three key areas. Not only was the CAT a learning tool for the institutions, but it allowed STAR an opportunity to evaluate the time and effort required, as well as obstacles, to affect this type of knowledge capacity change. |
https://datahub.usaid.gov/d/fsn7-awqv |