ABSTRACT
The terms interaction, link and collaboration are used throughout the text, but are not interchangeable. As Figure 1.1 indicates, interaction is the broadest term, not only embracing both link and collaboration, but also allowing the possibility of conflictive interaction. Collaboration, at the opposite end of the spectrum, implies a formalized dependence of one partner on another for at least part of the success of its activities, as when, for instance, GOs might contract NGOs to deliver inputs based on the technologies that they (GOs) have developed. Link occupies an intermediate position, implying either formal or informal positive interaction, but of a less mutually dependent kind than that designated by collaboration. The differing characteristics of forms of interaction https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315832241/c8f6cbc3-e0ff-4423-acb3-b7f0748b9e31/content/fig1_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
