Over the years P2i professionals have invested in productive partnerships, trusted linkages and established networks that engage end-users, service delivery partners, academicians, researchers, policy and decision makers; augmenting in-house competencies with diverse and added expertise for an enhanced impact. P2i senior team has recognized leadership skills for mobilizing diverse group of audience towards the intended action, outlining multisectoral plans responsive to their individual needs, and mediating challenging conversations and managing relationships with diverse group of stakeholders from cross-cutting disciplines, ranging from parliamentarians, senior government officials and senior academicians to students and community representatives.
Linkages and Partnerships
Multi-stakeholder coordination to reach shared goals
P2i has maintained constructive links with policy and decision makers, communities and peer organizations. It has extensive experience of working on projects requiring multi-stakeholder engagements. This involved deliberations across a diverse group of stakeholders from cross-cutting disciplines, across multiple institutions, departments for leveraging on their strengths, knowledge, outreach and resources while working towards a shared goal for better health outcomes. To optimize the results and the desired impact, P2i engages with stakeholders right from the inception of a project. The interactions result in an enriched, inclusive and empowering engagement and benefits from identifying intersections among the sectors and opportunities for collaborative work.
Missing Links
Locally we experience missing links and weak coordination amongst sectors, departments, development partners and donors resulting in duplication of efforts and paucity of resources. This has been one of the major reasons behind the slow progress towards the achievement of the national health goals.
Devolution has brought in a major disconnect with limited efforts by the provinces towards resource sharing, information exchange, and joint work to accomplish shared visions. The potential benefits of collaboration i.e. better utilization of scare resources, cost-savings, and improved and integrated outcomes are yet to be realized.
Reproductive Decision-Making
- Can make informed decisions
- Cannot make informed decisions
Analysis from PDHS 2017-2018
P2i professionals are strong advocates of the “one health” and adopts a holistic, multisectoral approach. It has string recognition for the fact that public health problems being complex are often impacted by interrelated environmental, social and economic factors.
The team actively participate in partnership activities and events and leverage the collective bargaining power for building and maintaining strong and constructive relationships with relevant policymakers and decisionmakers.
P2i has systems and processed in place for undertaking collaborative works, engaging multi-disciplinary teams and international experts, across the country through a well-established institutional and individual partner organizations’ network throughout Pakistan.
The senior team and advisors at P2i have extensive experience of steering policy process and drafting policies and strategies shaped and influenced by multisectoral inputs. Over the years, they have developed the trust and credibility required for cultivating a spirit of partnership. This has helped them in developing and sustaining strong, supportive relationships with the national and international experts, public and private sector institutions operating across sectors.
P2i places a high value on establishing and maintaining collaborative and mutually supportive relationships with external groups and organizations representing diverse stakeholders and issues. The teams have extensively supported collaboration and exchange between public sector departments, technical working groups, and academia on issues and actions that relate to or impact joint policy-related efforts
We leverage and shepherd collective voices toward common policy goals; create synergies among members and institutions; share information, ideas, and resources; and combine efforts to more efficiently plan and implement multisectoral strategies and plans
Childhood Mortality by Previous Birth Interval
- One
- Two
Understanding the roles of different stakeholders to achieve sustainable development goals
Established Skills and Capacities
P2i team has demonstrated relational ability of establishing and sustaining collaborative and mutually supportive relationships with external groups and organizations representing diverse constituencies (e.g., youth, women, service providers, marginalized groups, health professionals, media) and diverse sectors (e.g., health, environment, livestock, agriculture, economic, youth, human rights, gender, women, education).
The team is equipped with the deep understanding of barriers to involvement and linking with other networks. They have strong skills in oral and written communication, agenda setting, consensus building, knowledge management, meeting management, strategic and action planning, managing group dynamics, negotiation and conflict management.
