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Partnership Assessment4continuedSTEP 5Using the narrowed options for potentialpartners (based on analysis in step 3),conduct a strengths, weaknesses,opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysisinternally for each potential partnership.This analysis will help you understand thevalue proposition for each partner in thepartnership and help to ensure your futurediscussions address their needs andconcerns as well. Table 8 should becompleted for each potential partnership(this table assumes a tri-partite partnership,but a two-way partnership could just aseasily be analysed).STEP 6If you feel the company is ready for apartnership based on your assessment instep 4, approach potential partners (drawnfrom your list in step 3) with a view toreaching broad-level agreement to exploreways of addressing priority developmentinitiatives through partnership. The SWOTanalysis you will have completed in step 5should make these conversations mutuallybeneficial. To do this you may need to assignresponsibilities and timelines for thefollowing discussions to occur with each ofthe potential partners (see Table 9).RELATIONSHIPS TOOLSTable 8: SWOT analysisFor each partnership consider:Partner Company Government body NGO/CBOStrengthsWeaknessesOpportunitiesThreatsTable 9: Partnership action listAction Responsibility DeadlineEstablish communications with potentialpartners.Validate, with external stakeholders,assumptions in your internal assessment.Explore possible roles and resourcecommitments of prospective partners.Assess potential partners’ capacity tocontribute and maintain support for thepartnership.Community Development Toolkit69