Collective impact facilitators: how contextual and procedural factors influence collaboration *

Gillam, Rebecca J.; Counts, Jacqueline M.

doi:10.4324/9781315112916-5

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“…In year 3 members continued to show enthusiasm for working together, valuing their comfort sharing information and mutual awareness achieved through meetings. ICO4MCH patterns fit those reported by other partnerships using the Inventory, such as initial exploratory participation, in search of increasing collective impact; early clarifications of participant roles and responsibilities paying off in later collaborative dynamics; and positive reinforcement over time between informal communication and trust (Ales et al 2011;Gillam et al 2016;Perrault et al 2011).…”

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confidence: 58%

“…In year 1, initial responses indicated shared perception that collaborating was in participants’ self-interest. By year 2, participants had slightly higher average assessments of such relational bases for successful collaboration as mutual respect and flexibility; evidence of improving collaboration, such as frequent and open communication (Gillam et al 2016 ); and skilled leadership. In year 3 members continued to show enthusiasm for working together, valuing their comfort sharing information and mutual awareness achieved through meetings.…”

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“…The one factor with an average score virtually unchanging from years one to three was sufficient funds, staff, materials, and time. Despite each of the partnerships receiving state funding to support the community action team and implement strategies, the continuing challenges relating to sustainability in ICO4MCH also mirror other community partnerships’ accounts of very substantial time and other resource requirements (Ales et al 2011 ; Gillam et al 2016 ). The collective impact framework encourages collaborative groups to have a backbone organization responsible for organizational and administrative support (Kania and Kramer 2011 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory version used was that available in 2016, which entailed 40 items relating to 20 factors (Table 1 ). Those factors included participation by a range of stakeholders; clear roles and policies; sufficient resources for the participant time and administrative support collaboration requires; trust and commitment; and open and frequent communication (Ales et al 2011 ; Gillam et al 2016 ; Perrault et al 2011 ). The study team made minor changes to Inventory item wording to enhance ease of reading without losing meaning.…”

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“…Funders increasingly require collaboration toward sustainable improvement (Gillam et al 2016 ). One such example has been Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health (ICO4MCH), funded by the North Carolina General Assembly (Morgan et al 2020 ).…”

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Using the Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory to Strengthen Collaborations for Improving Maternal and Child Health

Wells

Yates

Morgan

et al. 2020

Matern Child Health J

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Introduction The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory is a free, publicly available questionnaire about the quality and context of community collaboration. The purpose of this article is to share lessons from using this questionnaire in a North Carolina maternal and child health initiative. Methods In 2015, the State’s General Assembly funded five local health departments to implement evidence-based strategies for improving maternal and child health. Each health department formed a community action team for this purpose. Members of each community action team completed the Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory (Inventory) in the first year of funding and again 1 and 2 years later. Technical assistance coaches also asked community action team conveners to complete a brief questionnaire annually, and used these as well as Inventory results to plan for improvements. Results During the first year, community action teams emerged as strong in seeing collaboration in their self-interest. A primary challenge noted by conveners was engaging consumers on the community action teams. Strategies to address this included using social media and compensating consumers for attending meetings. By the second year, teams’ average scores in engaging multiple layers of participation increased, and eight additional factors became strengths, which generally continued in year three. The most consistent challenge was supporting community action teams administratively. Discussion The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory provided a feasible tool for identifying opportunities for improvement in several local, cross-sector partnerships, suggesting promise for other communities seeking to enhance their collective impact on maternal and child health.

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Goals aligned: Predictors of common goal identification in educational cross-sectoral collaboration initiatives

Kolleck¹,

Rieck²,

Yemini³

2019

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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The rise of cross-sectoral collaboration initiatives has been widely documented. While schools and third-sector organizations share important educational goals in these initiatives, the predictors of their identification with common goals have not been examined systemically to date. This article analyses predictors of common goal identification within educational collaborative initiatives through a case study of a German initiative aimed at tackling inequality in education. By implementing a mixed-methods design – including surveys, semi-structured interviews and social network analysis, combined with logistic regression and qualitative content analysis – we demonstrate that an actor’s identification with the common goal is shaped not only by individual characteristics, but also by his/her relative position within the collaboration. Findings of this study have practical implications for networked leadership and school principals’ work and training, since they inform regarding the particular settings, skills and knowledge needed for managing cross-sectoral collaboration to the benefit of schools.

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Consumers’ access to information about medicine prices and availability as an enabler of last mile medicine access: A scoping review

Mureyi

Gwatidzo

Matyanga

2022

The Journal of Medicine Access

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Information about where medicines are in stock and how much they cost facilitates consumers’ timely access to affordable medicines by enabling price comparisons and the identification of stockists. Our aims were to: (1) Review how consumer access to price and availability information is engaged within the Medicine Access discourse and (2) identify factors associated with the existence of interventions that provide consumers with medicine availability and price information. We conducted two scoping reviews. We reviewed 26 medicine access and pharmaceutical system strengthening frameworks to assess how they conceptualise information access. We then reviewed four interventions that provide consumers with availability and price information to identify the factors associated with these interventions’ existence. We found that in the medical access discourse, information is mainly cast as helpful to entities that ensure medicine access for populations. Information as an enabler of medicine procurement for consumers/households is less emphasised. We then identified the following eight factors that facilitate consumer access to reliable medicine price and availability information: the recognition of a medicine access problem that can be mitigated by consumer access to information; cross-sectoral collaboration; the willingness of medicine sellers to disclose their inventory information; having information quality control measures; appropriate incentives for intervention adoption; enabling legal environments; systems of pooling information; and access to digital information technology infrastructure. We recommend that more theoretical and implementation attention ought to be directed at how medicine price and medicine availability information can empower individual consumers to make sound purchasing decisions.

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Collective impact facilitators: how contextual and procedural factors influence collaboration *

Cited by 4 publications

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Using the Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory to Strengthen Collaborations for Improving Maternal and Child Health

Using the Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory to Strengthen Collaborations for Improving Maternal and Child Health

Goals aligned: Predictors of common goal identification in educational cross-sectoral collaboration initiatives

Consumers’ access to information about medicine prices and availability as an enabler of last mile medicine access: A scoping review

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