Towards a simple typology of international health partnerships

Table 8 Comparison of approaches to health partnership classification

	Edwards, 2015	Mitchell and Shortell, 2000 [7]	Ling, 2000 [8]
Impact	Individual/organisation capacity development	Differentiation – number of different activities, services, goals	Scale and boundaries
	Level of influence of the LMIC partners.	Partnership composition including size	Partnership members
	Level of influence of the LMIC partners.	Centrality – importance and influence of partnership	Partnership members
Approach	Training/infrastructure	The nature of the problem addressed
Approach	Generic/specialist	The nature of the problem addressed
Relationship between partners	Equality of influence	Coordination and integration – mechanisms of working together	Links between partners
Relationship between partners	Direct delivery or via third organisation	Accountability	Links between partners
Context		Alignment – nature of interactions between the partnership and external organisations	Fit with existing institutional architecture. Maturity of relationships. Resource dependency

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