More on Facilitation

Partners Peru Leads Corporate Social Responsibility Forum

Partners Peru is convening a high-level coalition including the private sector, government and civil society to discuss, analyze and make recommendations to improve corporate social responsibility and good governance in Peru.

Fostering Ethnic Conciliation and Roma Opportunities

To mitigate group distrust and animosity, Partners coordinated several roundtables to promote open, public discussion about community issues among often these antagonistic ethnic groups.

Concern for the Environment Inspires Clean-up

Neighboring communities and suburbs of Alba Iulia city were forced to endure garbage and sewage spillover from the city until Partners-Romania developed a participatory facilitation program to overcome the problem.

Urban Planning and Historical Preservation in Constanta

Partners successfully promoted urban development while protecting local resources and historical institutions in this Romanian town.

50-Year Hungarian-Slovak Border Dispute Resolved

Partners' trained regional experts worked with government officials, environmental experts and local community members to bring about compromise among long-standing rivals.

Networking for Clean Water

Partners has helped foster relationships between numerous NGOs, public institutions and private businesses to promote cooperation in supporting clean water facilities, access to sanitation and other services and sustainable technologies.

Environmental Mediation in Misiones

Partners helped facilitate a resolution between environmental activists, government ministries and local populations that ultimately benefited both the endangered trees and Argentinians.

Leading a National Mediation Movement

After recognizing the diverse and complex mediation mechanisms throughout the country, Partners undertook a unifying initiative to promote more systemic and successful mediation in Hungary.

Improving the Management of Roma Initiatives

Partners helped strengthen local capacity and bolster inter-ethnic interaction to promote more sustainable conflict management and community development among the Roma populations in Slovakia.

Preventing and Managing Local Conflict

Partners help to develop Conciliation Commissions for ethnic conflict prevention and management between the Roma and other ethnic groups in Slovakia.

Building Ethnic Conciliation Commissions

Supporting Roma integration in the Czech Republic through encouraging participation and conflict resolution.

Fostering Roma Community Groups

In order to improve the labor standards and employment benefits among less skilled Roma workers, Partners helped create working groups to organize members and assist them in interacting with employers and the government.

Integration of Roma citizens

Partners helped bring down the wall in the town of Usti nad Labem, literally and figuratively, where Roma citizens faced serious discrimination and alienation in their own country.

Preserving Biodiversity in the Sea of Cortez

Marine conservation in the Sea of Cortez has been enhanced by establishing close cooperation between the government, civil society, and the private sector.

Applying Collaborative Processes in Former Comunist Countries

by Kinga Goncz and Raymond Shonholtz, IAP2: Improving the Practice, First Quarter 2000.

Managing Conflict Through Cooperative Planning: Partners Hungary's Work on Majority- Minority (Roma) Tensions

by Lara Olson, Reflecting on Peace Practices, September 2000.

New Approaches to Old Problems: Lessons from an Ethnic Conciliation Project in Four Central and Eastern European Countries

by Ilana Shapiro, Ph.D., Negotiation Journal, April 1999, Vol. 15, No. 2, pgs. 149-167.