ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 has provided an overview of the primary elements making up a partnership framework focused on the poor. In practice, however, the development of the partnership framework is often determined not by a synthesis of elements appropriate to a particular context, but by the application of a predetermined contractual model. A primary concern with the existing approach to partnership development is this tendency to categorise the arrangement by contract type. 1 Commonly, a focus is placed on what contract should be employed, before considering what actors should be involved and/or what the network of arrangements should be. In the quest for establishing a partnership directly benefiting the poor, this has enormous ramifications. It hinders the development of an integrated approach to a partnership by prematurely drawing the boundaries, emphasising the contractual relationship with the main operator before first working through the strategy in its entirety.
