Partnership Framework Research Articles

A novel public-private-people partnership framework in regeneration of old urban neighborhoods in Iran

Urban area regeneration is a matter of every municipality over time. Regeneration projects are usually cost-intensive and directly affect many vulnerable members of society. Public-private-people partnership (PPPP) is one of the adopted methods by various municipalities in these projects. Multiple players with different backgrounds and uncertainties involved complicate the development process of PPPP projects. A carefully designed framework is required to successfully deliver these projects. This research develops a holistic PPPP framework for the old urban neighborhood regeneration projects in Iran. The collective experience of urban area regeneration projects from the literature and field experts is employed in the proposed framework. The framework outlines the requirements of the feasibility study that the government needs to perform in the initial stages of the projects. Three standard form contracts designed in the framework adjust the stakeholders' relations over the project’s life cycle. The field experts verified the capabilities of the framework and found it beneficial for future urban regeneration projects in the country. Although the identified issues are addressed in the proposed framework, prospective implementations of the framework need to be closely viewed to identify possible points of improvement.

Improvement of the management reporting system in the inter-organizational relations of agricultural formations

The article, based on the theoretical analysis and study of management reporting practices, presents the place and role of the inter-organizational management reporting system in the system of inter-organizational management accounting in the framework of partner interaction. The composition of management reports of agricultural organizations in the framework of business partnerships is proposed, the advantages of using this composition of reports are identified, and the possible difficulties of implementing such a system of reporting forms are identified. On the example of agricultural enterprises, the structure and content of management reports for use in inter-organizational cooperation are disclosed.

Public-Private Partnerships in the GCC: Reality and Challenges

This article discusses the experience of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It also explores the relevant individual characteristics of each country of the GCC and highlights the challenges each country faces or is likely to face in implementing PPPs. This paper seeks to understand the extent to which the implementation of PPPs in the GCC has been consistent with international best practices in formulating and creating legal and regulatory frameworks for such partnerships. It adopts a comparative approach to public policy analysis to review empirical and theoretical studies of PPPs in the GCC. The article concludes that all the GCC countries follow different, and sometimes unclear, policies in implementing partnerships and that these partnerships remain limited compared to their global counterparts. It also identifies the most significant and common obstacles and challenges these countries face in creating an attractive and competitive environment in which to implement sustainable partnerships that contribute to their ambitious economic visions and accelerate their transformation from a rentier into knowledge and production economies.

1356Translating urban health research in Bangkok: partnership framework for building capacity in monitoring liveability

Abstract Focus of Presentation This poster outlines a partnership framework for developing a web-based liveability indicators monitoring system for Bangkok, Thailand, as a mechanism for translating urban health research into urban planning and policy. We reflect on our partnership with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, including its critical success factors and framing around the Sustainable Development Goals, and provide an overview of the capacity building program supporting the use of the indicators in practice. Findings In total, 65 indicators were calculated for Bangkok and housed in a web-based urban liveability portal. A series of capacity building activities, including face-to-face meetings, webinars and online presentations, supported the use of these indicators in monitoring liveability. Numerous critical success factors were identified, such as having a bilingual liaison as well as two working groups within the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. Conclusions/Implications This partnership provides a framework for other cities seeking to translate urban health research and progress the Sustainable Development Goals through building capacity in monitoring liveability. Future international partnerships should seek to engage partners through a mix of face-to-face and online activities and develop project governance structures (e.g. bilingual project liaison) that enable the prioritisation of local knowledge. Key messages This partnership provides a framework for translating urban health research into urban planning and policy, with relevance for other cities globally. It resulted in the mapping of 65 liveability indicators across Bangkok.

The program of communicative and personal development of primary schoolchildren within the framework of an innovative university-school partnership: Evaluation of the effectiveness

Introduction. The article addresses the problem of primary schoolchildren’s communicative and personal development within the frameworks of an innovative university-school partnership. The purpose of the article is to evaluate the effectiveness of the program aimed at communicative and personal development of primary schoolchildren and to identify psychological and educational factors contributing to its implementation. Materials and Methods. The research follows learner-centered, semiotic, and hermeneutic approaches. In order to assess communicative development of primary schoolchildren, the following empirical methods were used: G. A. Zuckerman’s ‘Mittens’ inventory, O. G. Mishanova’s ‘Polite words’ inventory, G. A. Zuckerman’s ‘Dictation Pattern’ inventory, the ‘Brothers and Sisters’ method (modified samples of Zh. Piaget). The study involved 50 primary schoolchildren and 4 primary school teachers. To analyze the empirical data and evaluate the dynamics, the Wilcoxon T-test was used, which ensures the validity and reliability of research findings. Results. The article analyzes and summarizes the experience of currently available programs aimed at social and communicative development of primary schoolchildren. The authors have developed a program enhancing primary schoolchildren’s communicative development, theoretically justified and implemented it. The explanatory and heuristic potential of methodological principles and approaches to solving this problem has been revealed. The authors describe an educational technology called ‘a hermeneutic circle’ and illustrate it by means of a text analyzes focusing on its expediency, relevance, and communicative significance for effective cognition of the language essence and training communicative skills. The research findings indicate the effectiveness of the program called ‘Culture of speech and ethics of communication’ in the communicative and personal development of primary schoolchildren in four areas: communication as cooperation; communication as management; communication as interiorization; communication as interaction. Relying on these directions, the authors have identified and described the following parameters of the integral communicative and personal development: the level of dialogic communication, the level of communication ethics, the level of communication productivity, the level of understanding of the other participants. Conclusions. The article concludes that the implementation of ‘Culture of speech and ethics of communication’ program and creating a psychologically beneficial learning environment have led to a high level of communicative and personal development of primary schoolchildren who consider language as a cultural, ethical, and aesthetic value.

Framework for Developing a Low-Carbon Energy Demand in Residential Buildings Using Community-Government Partnership: An Application in Saudi Arabia

Rapid population growth has led to significant demand for residential buildings around the world. Consequently, there is a growing energy demand associated with increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The residential building energy demand in arid countries such as Saudi Arabia is supplied with fossil fuel. The existing consumption pattern of fossil fuels in Saudi Arabia is less sustainable due to the depletion of fossil fuel resources and resulting environmental impacts. Buildings built in hot and arid climatic conditions demand high energy for creating habitable indoor environments. Enormous energy is required to maintain a cool temperature in hot regions. Moreover, climate change may have different impacts on hot climatic regions and affect building energy use differently. This means that different building interventions may be required to improve the performance of building energy performance in these geographical regions, thereby reducing the emissions of GHGs. In this study, this framework has been applied to Saudi Arabia, a hot and arid country. This research proposes a community–government partnership framework for developing low-carbon energy in residential buildings. This study focuses on both the operational energy demand and a cost-benefit analysis of energy use in the selected geographical regions for the next 30 years (i.e., 2050). The proposed framework primarily consists of four stages: (1) data collection on energy use (2020 to 2050); (2) setting a GHG emissions reduction target; (3) a building intervention approach by the community by considering cost, energy, and GHG emissions using the Technique for Order of Performance by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to select the best combinations in each geographical region conducting 180 simulations; and (4) a clean energy approach by the government using grey relational analysis (GRA) to select the best clean energy system on the grid. The clean energy approach selected six different renewable power generation systems (i.e., PV array, wind turbine, hybrid system) with two storage systems (i.e., battery bank and a combination of electrolyte, fuel cell, and hydrogen tank storage). This approach is designed to identify the best clean energy systems in five geographical regions with thirty scenario analyses to define renewable energy-economy benefits. This framework informs through many engineering tools such as residential building energy analysis, renewable energy analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques, and cost-benefit analysis. Integration between these engineering tools with the set of energy policies and public initiatives is designed to achieve further directives in the effort to reach greater efficiency while downsizing residential energy demands. The results of this paper propose that a certain level of cooperation is required between the community and the government in terms of financial investments and the best combinations of retrofits and clean energy measures. Thus, retrofits and clean energy measures can help save carbon emissions (enhancing the energy performance of buildings) and decrease associated GHG emissions, which can help policy makers to achieve low-carbon emission communities.

PPP à travers une revue compréhensive de la littérature : approche historique, conceptuelle et théorique

Governments around the world are increasingly using private sector participation to develop, finance and provide infrastructure and public services via public-private partnerships (PPPs). There are multiple reasons for this adoption, ranging from the increase in public deficits, the needs and the increased aspirations of the populations, then they seek for innovation in the private sector. This article analyzes some publications from a wide range of disciplines on the basis of bibliographic research and content analysis. We find that despite the magnitude and importance of the phenomenon, there is no harmonious comprehension of approaches, concepts. Objectives. As well, disciplines and theories that vary considerably. We synthesize formerly dispersed research perspectives through a “multi-approach” framework of public-private partnerships.

Expanded Ethical Principles for Research Partnership and Transdisciplinary Natural Resource Management Science.

Natural resource researchers have long recognized the value of working closely with the managers and communities who depend on, steward, and impact ecosystems. These partnerships take various forms, including co-production and transdisciplinary research approaches, which integrate multiple knowledges in the design and implementation of research objectives, questions, methods, and desired outputs or outcomes. These collaborations raise important methodological and ethical challenges, because partnering with non-scientists can have real-world risks for people and ecosystems. The social sciences and biomedical research studies offer a suite of conceptual tools that enhance the quality, ethical outcomes, and effectiveness of research partnerships. For example, the ethical guidelines and regulations for human subjects research, following the Belmont Principles, help prevent harm and promote respectful treatment of research participants. However, science-management partnerships require an expanded set of ethical concepts to better capture the challenges of working with individuals, communities, organizations, and their associated ecosystems, as partners, rather than research subjects. We draw from our experiences in collaborative teams, and build upon the existing work of natural resources, environmental health, conservation and ecology, social science, and humanities scholars, to develop an expanded framework for ethical research partnership. This includes four principles: (1) appropriate representation, (2) self-determination, (3) reciprocity, and (4) deference, and two cross-cutting themes: (1) applications to humans and non-human actors, and (2) acquiring appropriate research skills. This framework is meant to stimulate important conversations about expanding ethics training and skills for researchers in all career-stages to improve partnerships and transdisciplinary natural resources research.

Familiar strangers – managing engagements in public-private partnerships in education

ABSTRACT Various forms of public-private collaborative organizations have been emerging in the education sector, a development that has made managing public-private partnerships an unavoidable imperative for school managers today. Addressing interactions between the partnership manager of and partners in a public-private innovation partnership, this article explores the attachments public and private actors establish in the framework of such partnerships. While formal structures often bind partnerships together, open innovation partnerships have a more fluid organization in which the participants have to establish the ground for their common work. Specifically, the article presents a study of a Danish partnership project aimed at developing a new secondary school. Drawing on the sociology of engagements, the article sketches out the differing forms of mutual engagements at stake between the actors involved and the challenges they face. As the partnership studied lacked formal agreements, the manager’s and partners’ locally performed acts of proximity became a means of binding the partnership together. In these acts, a mutual explorative engagement intertwined with a familiar engagement, thus creating a distinct attachment of familiar strangers between the public and private actors – an attachment through which ideas on education and common educational visions could traverse the public and private sectors.

Co-produced capability framework for successful patient and staff partnerships in healthcare quality improvement: results of a scoping review

BackgroundInternationally, patient and public involvement (PPI) is core policy for health service quality improvement (QI). However, authentic QI partnerships are not commonplace. A lack of patient and staff capability to...

Impact of Domestic Tourism on Attracting Investment: Organizing and Regulating of Tourism Activities by Municipal Authorities

The article deals with the experience of tourism management at the level of municipal districts. Currently, the tourism industry is going through hard times due to the general economic decline and travel restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the article is to define the most promising routes for cooperation between local authorities and business to support tourism in modern conditions. Although the possibilities and mechanisms of tourism development in cities and towns largely depend on the national tourism management model best global practices indicate the importance of the coordinating function fulfilled by the local authorities. To successfully solve the key problems of tourism development at the regional and local levels, one must organize the cooperation of the key interested parties: tourists, small and large businesses, local communities, and authorities. Special consideration is given to attracting outside investment to the tourism industry within the framework of public-private partnerships. The main conclusions are made based on the analysis of statistical data and the current trends of development of the domestic and foreign situation. The authors conclude that only domestic tourism can be promising under the present conditions. The problems are defined and recommendations are given for the improvement of the tourism industry in Russia. The practical significance of the study consists in systematization and actualization of theoretical approaches to analyzing the possible routes for recovering and further developing the tourism industry in the Russian Federation.

ЗАХОДИ СТИМУЛЮВАННЯ РОЗВИТКУ СИСТЕМ КЛАСТЕРНОГО ПАРТНЕРСТВА В КРАЇНАХ ЄС

The lack of normative regulation for the procedures of creating cluster partnerships in Ukraine, their organizational and legal forms as well as the government support instruments triggers a critical need to explore successful international experience, of the EU countries in particular. The purpose of this article is to provide insights into the best European practices in developing initiatives, programmes and platforms to support cluster partnership schemes. The study employs general scientific research methods, in particular, the method of logical generalization and statistical analysis to investigate the neighbouring countries of Ukraine that were awarded with the ECEI Label by the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (ESCA). It is emphasized that most European countries have developed and continue to develop and improve their cluster policies and programmes to support their national economy competitiveness and create new jobs. At the level of the European Union, methodology and tools for national innovation development were introduced in the early 1980s. Cluster policy support programmes have been launched since the late 1990s. Currently, to ensure the core principles of the cluster partnership development, the EU policy is focused on improving the environment for the effective cluster operation in all member states, as well as on supporting their internationalization. Although country-specific programmes to enhance cluster partnerships have different priorities and implement a vast range of diverse tools, they all pursue the same goals: they seek to provide appropriate support and meet the needs of all cluster partnership actors along with improving the environment for sustainable national development. Among the analysed programmes and platforms, this paper is focused on the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (ESCA) which contributes to the improvement of skills, competencies and practices in cluster management within the cluster partnership framework. The information presented on the ESCA platform demonstrates that currently more than 1100 cluster partnerships from 45 countries have been tested for and / or awarded with the BRONZE quality mark, about 130 gained SILVER and over 100 were awarded with GOLD quality mark. The study also provides cluster analysis of Ukraine's neighbouring countries that quality marks for effective cluster partnership management. Among such countries the leader is Romania – 81 clusters have received quality marks. To date, the European Initiative has recognized three ECEI quality marks as a reliable International Standard for Cluster Partnership Management. The findings reveal that the EU experience in supporting cluster partnerships is relevant for other countries seeking to boost their innovative development, this also refers to Ukraine in particular, where, to a great disappointment, there are yet no legal regulations to support and develop cluster partnerships.

Dying with disability: a disability and palliative care intersectoral partnership framework

People with intellectual disabilities have poor end-of-life experiences compared with other community members. Few strategies are in place to ensure they receive end-of-life care tailored to their specific needs. More is known about “what” constitutes quality end-of-life care for people with intellectual disabilities, and the barriers to achieving these outcomes, than “how” to overcome these barriers. The expertise of both the palliative care and disability sectors are needed, at national, state, regional, and local levels, to address the causes that result in poor end-of-life experiences for people with intellectual disabilities, their families, and carers. This study developed an intersectoral disability and palliative care policy and practice partnership framework using a modified Delphi approach to integrate the key findings of two studies that provided guidance on what good end-of-life care looks like for people with intellectual disabilities: the Disability Healthy End of Life Program service model with the European Association of Palliative Care Consensus Norms for Palliative Care of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Europe. The intersectoral framework developed from this study is solution-focused and addresses the challenges of achieving quality practice.

Optimizing Investment Selection for PPP Framework in the Transport Sector: A Risk Perspective

The huge financial requirement of essential transport infrastructure system has challenged the availability of government funding. To fill the fiscal gap, public–private partnerships (PPP) framework has been applied as a promising mechanism. The success of PPP projects, however, is significantly influenced by a number of critical factors. Therefore, an optimum and comprehensive evaluation of projects, reflecting critical risks, supporting investment decisions, has been highly demanded by both the public and private sector. Various works, in previous studies, have been spreading scientific models assessing risks in the construction industry, and some of them focused on the area of PPP. However, the majority of published methods just concentrated on addressing and leveling risks, and there is a lack of application in evaluating and comparing different PPP projects, as investment options, with regards to key issues. Hence, in the situation of limited budget, the public and private partners may struggle with deciding the most potential alternative. To overcome this real-world challenge, this paper, by proposing a mathematical model, attempts to optimize investment selection by evaluating different projects' riskiness with the focus on transport projects. Different actual PPP transport projects in Vietnam were employed as case studies to analyze the practicality of the proposed application.

Intelligent tourism system using prospective techniques and the Mactor methodology: a case study of Tunisian tourism

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a managerial intelligence system for tourism by identifying its future necessary conditions. We use the managerial approach and the joint decision-making system to introduce cooperation among the actors in the Tunisian tourism system. The Mactor methodology was used to simulate the convergences and divergences between these actors. The results indicate that the model helps to define the system’s future properties. The participation, without discrimination, of all tourism actors as a public–private partnership in the system’s design and management is essential. The actors diverge in terms of piloting and financing the system, but they converge in terms of cooperating and participating in the management of the system. When there is such participation in management, the actors cooperate by sharing strategic information. In a public–private partnership framework, the state can intervene in the information market as a partner of economic actors rather than as the holder of a market monopoly.

Training competences in smart cities: an online program for higher education students

Purpose This paper aims to explain the development of an online training curriculum to enable students to acquire the transversal competences needed to work on smart cities projects. In this curriculum, a modern approach to the teaching-learning process was applied, suitable for the interdisciplinary and multinational learning challenges that smart cities impose, but within the framework of a university-industry European partnership. Design/methodology/approach To develop the curriculum, the competences needed for smart cities, common to all disciplines and fields, had to be researched. In addition, real smart cities projects also had to be selected for work following a project-based learning methodology. For both, this study applied the Delphi method, selecting the most relevant ones based on the data obtained by performing a multi-criteria decision analysis. Findings The procedure followed for the identification of transversal competences in a field, the design of an innovative online training program and the results of the first edition of the program are discussed. Research limitations/implications The processes that were developed, both to detect the most relevant transversal competences and to design the online training program, could be extrapolated to other areas. Moreover, it is very likely that the competences detected in this work could also be extrapolated, for the most part, to interdisciplinary teams. Originality/value To date, there is no European initiative addressing the challenges of smart cities that requires a major adjustment in higher education, in the relationship between universities and all the mechanisms of lifelong learning with the industry related to smart cities. This work is a pioneer in this regard.

The Education Perspective of Indonesia Maritime Geopolitics In the Indian Ocean

Indonesia's maritime geopolitics is implemented in the form of relations and interactions between regions, countries, communities, and national interests which have a broad context in the relations of cooperation and international relations. The geographical position of Indonesia, which connects the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, has strategic geopolitical potential and opportunities to realize the World Maritime Axis policy (WMA). This study aims to analyze the perspective of Indonesia's maritime geopolitics in the Indian Ocean, opportunities and challenges and collaboration with countries in the Indian Ocean. The research method used is a descriptive analysis of the dynamics of the global situation developing in the Indian Ocean. Indonesia's leadership has been recognized and respected by countries in the Indian Ocean region since the Asian-African Conference (AAC) 1955 in Bandung, then again strengthened at the 50 th anniversary of AAC in 2015 in Bandung. Indonesia also took advantage of the opportunity when it was appointed to lead the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) 2017 which gave birth to the agreed IORA Concord or Jakarta Concord as a document that can encourage maximum use of opportunities and respond to challenges in the region and is aimed at addressing non-traditional security issues, such as IUU fishing activities, human trafficking, illegal drugs, illegal immigrants, piracy, pollution of the marine environment, and others. Awareness of the importance of marine resources, maritime stability and security in the Indian Ocean region for the welfare of IORA member countries is realized by utilizing opportunities through a framework of strategic partnership and maritime diplomacy between countries in the region. The result of study, Indonesian maritime geopolitics in the Indian Ocean is a foreign policy utilizing Indonesia's geographical location in building the concept of maritime power in the Indian Ocean region based on strengthening cooperation with countries in South Asia, countries of the Middle East, East Africa, South Africa, Australia and countries others extracted the realization of the World Maritime Axis.

СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ИНВЕСТИЦИОННОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ ГОСУДАРСТВОМ

The problems of investment attractiveness of our country in the framework of the implementation of the Strategy of Economic Security of the Russian Federation until 2030 are considered. The stabilization of investment processes in the economy can become effective through the implementation of a system of planning, assessment, and monitoring of national threats and risks in the context of the crisis of the global economic system, market globalization, and price liberalization. An important investor in this process is the state: public investments implemented in the framework of public-private partnerships; finance aimed at modernizing Russian enterprises and major regional and federal projects. Increased control over them should be exercised by the state, investors and interested parties (or stakeholders).

Developing a scalable framework for partnerships between health agencies and the Wikimedia ecosystem.

In this era of information overload and misinformation, it is a challenge to rapidly translate evidence-based health information to the public. Wikipedia is a prominent global source of health information with high traffic, multilingual coverage, and acceptable quality control practices. Viewership data following the Ebola crisis and during the COVID-19 pandemic reveals that a significant number of web users located health guidance through Wikipedia and related projects, including its media repository Wikimedia Commons and structured data complement, Wikidata. The basic idea discussed in this paper is to increase and expedite health institutions' global reach to the general public, by developing a specific strategy to maximize the availability of focused content into Wikimedia's public digital knowledge archives. It was conceptualized from the experiences of leading health organizations such as Cochrane, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other United Nations Organizations, Cancer Research UK, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Each has customized strategies to integrate content in Wikipedia and evaluate responses. We propose the development of an interactive guide on the Wikipedia and Wikidata platforms to support health agencies, health professionals and communicators in quickly distributing key messages during crisis situations. The guide aims to cover basic features of Wikipedia, including adding key health messages to Wikipedia articles, citing expert sources to facilitate fact-checking, staging text for translation into multiple languages; automating metrics reporting; sharing non-text media; anticipating offline reuse of Wikipedia content in apps or virtual assistants; structuring data for querying and reuse through Wikidata, and profiling other flagship projects from major health organizations. In the first phase, we propose the development of a curriculum for the guide using information from prior case studies. In the second phase, the guide would be tested on select health-related topics as new case studies. In its third phase, the guide would be finalized and disseminated.

Book review: Traditions of Writing Research

The editors of Traditions of Writing Research created an eclectic collection of short essays for publishing in the journal Traditions of Writing Research using the contributions from the 2008 conference Writing Across Borders (henceforth WRAB). As a result, I've included the following language from WRAB's initial Call for Papers to further clarify the selection process: " 'This conference brings together the many writing researchers from across the world, drawing on all disciplines and focusing on all elements of writing across the lifespan and across all segments of society,' according to the conference's website. "This will be an opportunity to learn from other research traditions, exchange our findings, identify common agendas, and set the framework for future communication and partnerships," according to the website (http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/wrconf08.html). A guide or anthology would hope to discover articles that fit neatly into pre-existing categories, but the WRAB conference is all about forging new research paths and bridging gaps between previously unrelated ones. Keeping in line with their mission of bridging cultural barriers, this anthology features voices that are rarely heard together. An Argentinean etymological society is one of the 31 organisations that have contributed to this collection of etymological entries. Accordingly, there are no discipline-specific divisions in the book, nor do any of the parts match to specific research approaches or theoretical frameworks. Others report on new research projects that have not yet been published in this book. in this collection of scholarly essays