Cross case analysis demonstrates that different objectives of collaborative activities demand particular forms of relationship between government and non-government agencies, and that these various forms of relationship require the support of specific organizational arrangements. Cases in which the form of relationship was supported by mechanisms established to administer joint action and inter-agency relations were more effective and demonstrated greater ability to resolve difference than those using existing unmodified channels. Amongst those, interventions which incorporated opportunities for partners to evolve new ways of engaging and new rules governing interaction were the most productive. This leads to the conclusion that interventions involving government and NGO collaboration need to incorporate into their design more inclusive mechanisms, that is those which not only support administration of collaboration but which also ensure adequate agency of each party in management of the activity. Download full-text discussion paper .
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