Progress will be more rapid where leaders have experience working in more than one sector and participants are willing to embrace multiple viewpoints. Furthermore, the resilience of ISPs is dependent upon their ability to make their own rules, adapt goals, and engage new partners. As mentioned many times before, differences between sectors are a primary reason for collaboration. As a partnership grows, tensions caused by these differences set the groundwork for uncovering unrecognized assumptions and hidden institutional strengths, and discovering creative strategies. These associations are responsible for road maintenance and have the authority to set tolls to finance their activities.
Intersectoral collaboration can deliver productive outcomes for each sector.
Productive outcomes are generated when each sector's goals are identified and partners build mutual commitment to these goals. This is difficult since each sector enters the partnership with a different mindset. Identifying each sector's goals is important in understanding how to approach the collaboration. These issues are ones that no individual sector has the resources and ability to manage alone and in which every sector has a stake. Prepare for a long-term commitment and proceed in small steps.