What if partnerships were treated like products?

Strong products have a clearly defined user, a value proposition that solves a real problem, a go-to-market strategy, and iteration cycles to test and improve. Ultimately, they are designed to be adopted, paid for, and sustained.
Designing Cross-Sector Partnerships That Actually Work

A companion piece on moving from critique to construction
Why Cross-Sector Partnerships Still Aren’t Working in Global Health

In global health, we love to talk about partnerships. Public-private. Cross-sector. Multi-stakeholder. Community-based. They dominate strategy decks, RFPs, panels, and press releases.