Partnerships are forms of cooperation between organizations, they indicate, above all, a joint action motivated by the existence of common interests and objectives in which each one mobilizes the necessary resources at their disposal to achieve these objectives. The quality of this relationship in terms of partnership is what really counts, that is, the way in which organizations with different interests, powers, resources and attributions build a space in which they behave as equals in defining common goals, roles and contributions from each side of the partnership .

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PARTNERSHIP AND CONTRACT RELATIONSHIP

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The contract imposes on both parties the fulfillment of certain activities and the penalties, implicit or not, that will be up to the party that does not comply with what is established. A partnership establishes a relationship in which the partners seek to achieve a given objective with mutual efforts, aiming to develop both parts.

In a contract, each party is interested in receiving what was promised by the contractual clauses, in a partnership both parties want to grow and want the partner to grow.

The partnership goes beyond the exchange and the satisfaction of mutual interests. There is a dimension of complementarity, that is, seeking in the other the resources and capacities that are not available, but which are necessary to achieve their purposes. However, the difference lies in the the fact that this exchange is motivated by the fulfillment of certain objectives that are shared and external to each one.

The objectives of the partnership tend to be related to a deeper impact on the reality in which the organizations involved act. Therefore, they not only meet needs, but become both a way to amplify and radiate the effects of a work and a way of sensitize, mobilize and hold other subjects responsible for actions aimed at expanding citizenship and facing social problems.

Therefore, building partnerships and managing partnership relationships are, on the one hand, a process that, at the same time, requires and contributes to the growth of the degree of transparency in relations between the various groups and institutions of society as a whole. On the other hand, at the specific level of an organization, whatever its size or type, the construction of partnerships represents an element of fundamental importance, its ability to establish relationships, influencing, convincing, cooperating and mobilizing other actors to achieve institutional goals, expanding the impact and scope of this partnership in the market.