Effective cross-sector collaboration encompasses projects where the public, private and social sectors collaborate in different ways (e.g. financially, operationally, etc.), working towards common societal objectives and outcomes. The report draws on live cases to explore the implications of cross-sector collaboration, preconditions for success, governance arrangements, actionable learnings and key challenges.
EVPA partnered with MAZE - Decoding Impact, a Portuguese Social Finance intermediary, to issue a report on cross-sector collaboration for better social outcomes.
Effective cross-sector collaboration encompasses projects where the public, private and social sectors collaborate in different ways (e.g. financially, operationally, etc.), working towards common societal objectives and outcomes.
The report draws on live cases to explore the implications of cross-sector collaboration, preconditions for success, governance arrangements, actionable learnings and key challenges.
Thanks to the support of a task-group composed of renowned practitioners in the VP/SI sector, we identified the following success factors for cross-sector collaboration:
During a webinar on 12 December 2017, we discussed the topic of Public Private Collaboration. EVPA has mapped initiatives across Europe where joint efforts from the public and private sector are brought together to tackle social issues.
VP/SI practitioners currently engaging in Public Private Collaboration projects have presented their experience and learnings.
Celia Tennant (CEO, Inspiring Scotland), shared her vision on how to create strong and sustainable relationships with central and local government for resource allocation towards social issues. Hannah Goldie (Manager, Social Finance UK) and Bex Evans (Associate, Social Finance UK and currently seconded to SafeLives) presented The Drive Project and shared the learnings from designing and implementing a multi-agency approach to address the issue of domestic abuse.
These collaborations have a varied range of intended outcomes: inform public policy, improve efficiency of social services and/or build ecosystems for social innovation.
This article was written by
Bennet Barth
Joana Cruz Ferreira
Antonio Miguel
Priscilla Boiardi
Use the following form to search our website