About the Partnership Learning Loop

The partnership learning loop is an online interactive tool that assesses the different layers of partnerships. It provides insight in how your partnership functions in reality, whether it responds to needs and how it evolves over time. It furthermore provides key information that helps to steer and strengthen the collaboration and helps you and your partners define areas for further (strategic) improvements. 

The Partnership Learning Loop is for ....

  • Partnership managers/alliance managers/partnership broker/ M&E staff: keep track of the health of the partnership keen to steer the partnership process, increase partnership results and strengthen the partnership. 
  • Managers/directors: Steer and take well informed decision based on clear partnership indicators that provide insights on the partnerships process and results. 
  • Policy makers: interested in the added value of working in partnerships compared to non-partnering

The partnership learning loop will help address the following elements:  ​

  • Foster consistently high quality and effective collaboration  
  • Assess how the partnership as a whole is doing throughout the partnership (against a benchmark but also against own objectives).
  • Ascertain the partnership accelerators and inhibitors.   
  • Help guide steering and decision making and a road map forward in order to increase potential development value.   
What clients say about the PLL:
"In 2016 Partnership Learning Loop carried out two studies for us. The first one concerned a study into the perceptions of Dutch Civil Society Organizations and their Southern partners about Dutch non-financial support; the second one was about collaboration among Dutch Civil Society Organizations and about the relation between Dutch Civil Society Organizations and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Both studies generated important insights into the operations of Dutch civil society and into the factors that contribute to their effectiveness. Partnership Learning Loop developed an innovative methodology for the studies which added to their value. The experts of Partnership Learning Loop, Rita Dieleman and Helga van Kampen, had an open attitude and the cooperation with them was very fruiful and cordial. They invested a lot of extra time into the studies and they worked fast. We were very happy with the cooperation.'"

​Floris Blankenberg
Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands. ​
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Rita Dieleman

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Rita Dieleman is specialized in action-research on project-, programme- and organizational level, and works mostly with NGO’s, knowledge institutes and companies involved in social and sustainable development.  She supports organizations in how to put learnings into practice in a participatory way. Together with Helga van Kampen she developed the Partnership Learning Loop to assess the partnership process as she believes that the wellbeing of the collaboration itself effects the results of joint programmes.  She is an accredited partnership broker trained by the Partnership Brokers Association. 

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Helga van Kampen
Helga van Kampen is an independent partnership specialist. As an accredited partnership broker she supports global complex partnerships by assessing the health and the added value of the collaborative efforts through partnership reviews. Helga is furthermore an authorised partnership brokers lead trainer. She supports others in strenghtening their partnership brokering skills by providing training and mentoring services.

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