Strategic Goals
Attracting the best partners to AKU through:
Building our capacity to manage and deliver on our partnership projects through:
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Providing strategic information to faculty and departments interested in international collaboration. (University wide sessions on our partnerships, faculty involvement and a website on partnerships)
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Establishing strong processes and policies that govern our partnerships (criteria, work plans, MOUs, impact and lessons learnt)
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Establishing our AKU-International Internships Programme that brings interns from our partner institutions to AKU.
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Developing new models of partnership development to deliver on our commitments, i.e. consulting network, consortia models.
Guiding framework for partnerships
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Appropriateness to the Vision and Mission of the University
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“Do-ability” (time frames, enabling environment, longevity, credibility partner, mobilization of resources, financial and human, value added contribution and synergies with AKDN agencies
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Relevance, impact, access and quality
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Opportunity, external support and favorable circumstances
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Complementarily among initiatives and avoidance of duplication internally or within AKDN
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Structure/processes for partnership development
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Communications strategy
Positioning AKU as an effective institutional partner:
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Working to pursue a concerted strategy to ensure our partnerships reflect and align with our institutional priorities and are in line with our key academic areas and needs.
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Facilitating partnership activities (work plans, MOUs) to ensure that progress is made in terms of projects and programmes developed and delivered upon.
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Creating more strategic approach to funding and strengthening our relationships.