ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses each main facilitating and restrictive factors, namely: institutional strength of the collaboration entity, quality of the selection, balance between control of means and ends, and results orientation. In each case the type of relationship depends on variables that will be analyzed here. The partnership models mapped in the chapter are: Social Organization (SO), Public Interest Civil Society Organization (PICSO), Semiautonomous Social Service (SSS), State Foundations (SF), and Public Private Partnerships (PPP), all of which are briefly described. With regard to the facilitating factors, attention should be drawn to the issues of institutional strength of the collaboration entity, and to the quality of selections based on eligibility and qualification of organizations with background/experience in the sector. The exclusive control of ends, based on the argument that partnership models are essentially result-oriented management models, does not stand up well to Brazilian political culture, which has visible traces of patronage and an incipient third sector.
