Make informal contact with partners to find out about their attitudes and interests before putting formal proposals. Communicate with your partners in language they will understand, focusing on what they may want to achieve. Plan the partnership process over time. For example, a new organisation may well take a year to set up. Encourage ideas from your partners.
Ownership leads to commitment.
Be open and honest. Handbook A resource and guidebook for local, community-based groups addressing natural resource, land use, or environmental issues. At the same time, federal agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Environmental Protection Agency, are actively embracing partnerships in order to better achieve their environmental and land management missions. Yet most natural resource-based partnerships operate in isolation from one another, and without knowledge of the technical and financial assistance that may be available to them. Communications as Engagement.