Stimulate collaboration, commitment and sharing
Harnessing knowledge, skills, experience and resources is a key condition for planning and implementing collective initiatives for change.. Stimulating participation, nurturing relationships and targeting useful contributions, at the right time, throughout the collaborative process are essential if the strategy for change is to be realized.
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Collaboration can be interpreted in many different ways. In practice, it takes the form of a continuum of participation, with different roles and degrees of involvement. In all cases, it requires the adoption of collaborative postures and the cultivation of trust.
Collaboration continuum
An exercise developed by Tamarack Institute to assess the level of collaboration within a team: Collaboration continuum
Cultivating collaboration sheet
This summary sheet from phase 1 of the ICP (2015-2023) highlights elements within Montreal neighborhoods to cultivate collaboration: PIC 1 - Sheet 1
The cards of collaboration :
Knowing how to collaborate can be learned and practiced, through postures that can be developed throughout the collective journey. Through its practice, Dynamo has identified 10 postures and 2 beliefs to revisit in order to strengthen collaborative work: Maps of collaborative postures
Cross-sector collaboration and partnership: how it works :
A tool, developed by the CASIS Chair, that suggests ways of advancing intersectoral collaboration and partnership working, with supporting illustrations drawn from field studies of various intersectoral actions: Collaboration, intersectorality and partnership
Cultivating trust
An article by Liz Weaver that sheds light on the inherent complexity of trust, how to acquire it and how to re-establish that bond of trust when it's broken: Rivalry, Trust, Co-creation, Collective Impact
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There are many references to participation, often illustrated by degrees/scales of citizen involvement, illustrating the different levels leading to commitment. These scales also apply to partner participation.
Citizen participation scale
A citizen participation scale based on the one originally developed by Sherry Arnsteinand used by Espace muni in its work to promote greater democracy within municipalities. Citizen participation scale
Citizen involvement as renewable energy
A fact sheet designed for the Groupe Femmes, Politique et Démocratie to highlight the trajectories of citizen involvement, as well as its challenges, gains and a few tips deemed invaluable by participants. Toolbox: Citizen involvement
The compass of epistemic justice
A support tool developed by the Parole d'excluEs University Incubator for reflection on the role of people involved in an organization or project. It also suggests a way of facilitating this reflection: Epistemic justice compass
Diamond of participation
A tool conceptualized by Sam Kanerthat highlights the 3 phases of a participatory process: divergence - emergence - convergence, in order to facilitate the sharing of points of view, the identification of possibilities and the choice of the scenario to be retained and implemented: Le diamant de la participation | Download tool
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Commitment is the ultimate level of participation that translates into concrete involvement and contributions.
Commitment: essential conditions for collective change
A video and guide based on the work of Communagir's "Chantier sur les conditions favorables au développement collectif" project, which highlights the essential conditions for commitment to collective change: Commitment to collective change
Collective impact guide: Inclusive commitment condition
In the Collective Impact support guide, the inclusive commitment condition proposes questions to ask, a participation scale applicable to both citizen and partner participation, and a framework for classifying the people to be informed, consulted, involved and co-decided for each of the activities carried out in a change project: COLLECTIVE IMPACT APPROACH Support guide
Book review: Journey to the heart of a transformation by Céline Bareil
To keep stakeholder participation and commitment alive. of a change initiative, it's essential to rely on varied communication strategies tailored to the target audience. The Podcast on the CAPTE model model, among other things, deals with the subject of communication to encourage buy-in and participation in change. It may also be useful to consult this tool How to create a communication strategy
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Resource pooling is defined as the pooling of resources, expertise, knowledge and effort between different organizations in order to achieve common goals and maximize impact at lower cost.
Pooling resources
The document (developed by the editor of the little orange guide) focuses on the main ideas (key concepts, different stages, etc.) at the heart of this cooperative approach, already used and tested to varying degrees in a number of CIP initiatives. It also presents 2 case studies, in Montreal, which provide a better understanding of the path taken, the lessons learned and the results of two different projects that have already experimented with mutualization.
Mutualization Presentation _and_case_study _e.pdf
The Little Orange Guide to Resource Sharing and Pooling
This guide is a more comprehensive and detailed document that addresses in greater depth the elements shared in the document published by Centraide on the subject (previous reference). Although many sections are similar, this document also addresses related terms and concepts, in addition to four examples drawn from Quebec's cultural sector. It also includes a list of references and provides access to a toolkit to support certain steps in the process.