STRATEGIC ALLIANCES

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Strategic Alliances are at the core of the Hampden Pait's strategy and is recognized as the means by which the organization will deliver on its mandate of accessing innovative technologies from providers; stewarding the technologies it accesses and products there-from until they reaches the client/customer. The activities of Hampden Pait are driven by its vision of greater prosperity for Strategic Alliances and a technology secure client-base, and its mission of accessing and delivering affordable, productivity-enhancing technologies and products to the marketplace’s resource business communities (producers). It strives to achieve its mission and realize its vision through innovative Strategic Alliances and effective technology/product stewardship along the entire business value chain.

Hampden Pait helps to create Strategic Alliances, public and private partnerships (PPP) between organizations that own new technologies and products and those that wish to use them to increase productivity in developing countries. This requires complex and often sensitive negotiations among and between businesses with divergent institutional purposes and values.

A Hampden Pait “Strategic Alliance,” then, normally involves two or more separate and independent organizations – public or private – agreeing to participate in and share responsibility for one or more Hampden Pait projects. These Strategic Alliances are usually governed by agreements that define the roles and responsibilities of those involved and that attempt to identify and articulate shared risks and are viewed as separate from stakeholders.

The stakeholders include smallholder resource-business owners, scientists and technology providers and investors. Hampden Pait works closely with these resource-business owners to identify their needs and match them with technologies suitable for adaptation to developing countries ecologies and business systems, and to address constraints to access and use of appropriate technologies. It also works with minority scientists serving as the bridge that allows them to access the ‘tools’ they need to get the final product into the hands of the client and contribute to capacity development within the global marketplace. To technology providers and investors, Hampden Pait ensures appropriate use of the technologies combining the best practices from the public and private realms, balancing concerns for expense, simplicity and effectiveness for sustainable adoption of the technologies.

The Hampden Pait organization’s strategy for achieving its objectives is to facilitate collaboration and Strategic Alliances among competent institutions in developing countries and elsewhere, responding on a project-by-project basis to the expressed needs of client and customer.

The nature of Hampden Pait’s collaborations and Strategic Alliances will vary depending on the specific requirements of each project. Some Hampden Pait Strategic Alliances are primarily strategic in nature while others are operational. They may involve organizations from both the public and private sectors (public/private) or public sector entities only (public/public) or private sector organizations (private/private). In all of its activities, Hampden Pait acts as a facilitator, with delivery and implementation carried out by public, private and NGO partners as well.

Management of Strategic Alliances is guided by the different models that will be defined by each relationship. For each Strategic Alliance entered into, Hampden Pait seeks to have clearly defined agreements that will guide expectations by the parties. It invests in understanding what it takes to make such alliances effective and seeks to identify areas of common interest shared by different entities in order to benefit all involved.

The reason Hampden Pait exist – the purpose of our entire organization and effort – is to create the finest environment for people ...