Partnership Self-Assessment Tool

Why the tool was developed

The Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health designed the Partnership Self-Assessment Tool to assist partnerships to:

  • understand how collaboration works and what it means to create a successful collaborative process
  • assess how well their collaborative process is working
  • identify specific areas they can focus on to make their collaborative process work better.

What the tool measures

The tool measures a key indicator of a successful collaborative process - the partnership's level of synergy. The tool also provides information that helps partnerships take action to improve the collaborative process. It identifies the partnership's strengths and weaknesses in areas that are known to be related to synergy - leadership, efficiency, administration and management, and sufficiency of resources. It also measures partners' perspectives about the partnership's decision-making process, the benefits and drawbacks they experience as a result of participating in the partnership, and their overall satisfaction with the partnership.

Who should use the tool

The tool was designed to be used by partnerships for their own internal evaluation. The tool is not meant for partnerships at all stages of development or partnerships of all sizes.

To use the tool, a partnership needs to:

  • have been in existence at least six months
  • be a group of people and organisations that continually work together to develop and modify strategies to achieve their goals
  • have begun to take action to implement its plans
  • have at least five active partners.

Tool components

Coordinator Guide
Instructions for Using the Tool Offline
Tool Questionnaire
Tool Report

 

To download the complete set of tools, please click here. 

An online version of the survey tool is available by contacting Jan Ridd at jridd@agpn.com.au.