Table 5 Perceived benefits of partnership (n = 34)
Benefits: | % of respondents who agreed |
|---|---|
Effectiveness | |
Better able to execute activities | 100% |
Planned activities were executed with greater quality | 100% |
Better able to identify the need for, and to acquire additional support | 97% |
Better able to respond to existing challenges, or those that arose during the process | 100% |
Increased sustainability of immunization program | 91% |
Mean Effectiveness | 97.6% |
Efficiency | |
More timely execution of planned activities | 94% |
Leveraged each organizations’ comparative advantages | 88% |
Reduction in financial cost of process | 74% |
Better allocation of each organization’s financial resources | 62% |
Mean Efficiency | 79.5% |
Country Ownership | |
Increased country ownership | 79% |
Increased transparency among partners | 91% |
Increased accountability among partners | 74% |
Increased legitimacy of decisions made | 94% |
Increased fairness of decisions made | 91% |
Mean country ownership | 85.8% |
Drawbacks: | |
Effectiveness | |
Strained relations within my organization | 9% |
Created competition and conflict among member organizations | 6% |
Mean Effectiveness drawbacks | 7.5% |
Efficiency | |
Unnecessary management burden on my organization | 24% |
Loss of control/autonomy over decisions | 6% |
Forced us to make decisions in a way which was not natural/typical for our organization | 21% |
Mean Efficiency drawbacks | 17% |
Country Ownership | |
Not enough credit given to my organization | 24% |
Total Country Ownership drawbacks | 24% |