What's in a Partnership?

People, Programs, Passion - For Better or for Worse...

The recent and recurring topic that comes round in living room and boardroom chats lately is about partnership. Public-private, citizen-corporation, the self-the
other. Partnerships that engage people, are committed to programs, and are fueled with passion. Partnerships with a soul and conscious.

For partnerships to be effective we need an honest debate. We need to embrace the scary unchartered territory that comes with change. We need to be aggressive in implementation and assessment. Partnerships take serious, hard work. They take risk and sacrifice. They are about commitment and walking the talk and not just lip service for the PR sound bite.

Earlier this year back in Feb, I had the opportunity to curate a 2-day Corporate Social Responsibility Forum for the Greater Amman Municipality & TRACCS Jordan. I spent months before that designing the program and scope for each session, selecting the panelists, identifying the right moderator for each topic and working closely with all participants on the sphere of our intended conversations.

One session that worked to raise the bar of dialog was the opening session of day 2: Public Private Partnerships.

I asked HE Dr. Mohammad Halaiqa to chair and moderate this panel which included: HE Omar Maani/Mayor of Amman, Ghassan Nuqul/Nuqul Group, Dr. Moayyad Samman/KADDB, HE Nadia Saeed/Dead Sea Institute, Samer Asfour/DesignJordan, Ahmad Tantash/JordanInvest, Dr. Mahmoud Ababneh/Companies Controller, Osama Khalili/LG.

One exceptional voice was that of Ghassan Nuqul/Vice Chair of Nuqul Group. Ghassan gave a candid, passionate talk. Another compelling talk was delivered by Dr. Moayyad Samman/Director General of KADDB.

Watch the complete video of this session here and listen to Dr. Halaiqa provoke his panelists.

PPP & CSR part 1of3


PPP & CSR part 2of3

PPP & CSR part 3of3

PS: Ghassan mentions one of the Nuqul initiatives that had been in the making and waiting for government response for over 1.5 years. Since the forum and finally last month in September, Nuqul was able to launch their program adopting the village of Tubnah in Al Koura, addressing and working to deliver upon the needs of its community through several activities catering to over 500 individuals.