Designing International Partnership Programs: A Primer for Partners: How to Structure for Sustainability, Efficiency, and Development Impact

How do international partners coordinate and collaborate?
How do governing bodies, secretariats, and trust funds interrelate?
How can partners leverage their comparative advantages and create synergies?
How can supporting entities best support their partners?
What structure and design make international partnership programs better?

Be clear, clean, modular, flexible, comprehensive, balanced, contextual, ready, and aware – and above all, keep it simple. To be sustainable, effective, and impactful, international partners need to design and structure their partnership programs contextually, with informed business choices that create both stability and flexibility. It’s like rock, like water.

This book is for true believers in the benefits of inclusive collaboration and the synergies of structured partnerships. It gives international partners both a broad overview and a detailed understanding of international partnership programs. It takes a partner-oriented, business-conducive view to explain the nuts and bolts of international partnership programs, starting with the basics.

Featuring an easy-to-access layout and easy-to-understand presentation that includes close to 100 diagrams and as many cat cartoons, this resource book is written for partners, to be read as a whole or selectively on topics of interest.

Andrea Emily Stumpf is a true believer in the benefits of inclusive collaboration and the synergies of structured partnerships, particularly in the international arena. She supports international partnership initiatives through her business, Structured Partnerships, based in the Washington, DC area.

Andrea's experience draws from more than a decade at the World Bank, where she was Lead Counsel in the Legal Department. During this time, she worked with hundreds of partners on hundreds of partnership programs, large and small, mostly with trust funds, as an acknowledged expert in partnership program design and trust fund operations. She also supported Bank loan operations in Africa and the Middle East. Andrea continues to advise clients at the World Bank, in addition to supporting a variety of other clients.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Andrea worked in the private sector for over ten years as inhouse counsel and in law firms. Andrea handled legal matters for three global telecommunications companies, including support of multiple subsidiaries in emerging markets, complex commercial negotiations, and compliance aspects. Before that, Andrea worked at two prominent international law firms, in Shearman & Sterling s Paris and New York offices and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius s New York office. In her law firm practice, she participated in cutting edge global securities offerings and complex, multi-party mergers and acquisitions for major multinational corporations.

Andrea has a JD from Yale Law School and a double major BA with honors in international studies and German from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.