Post Covid -19 Partnerships Management of Strategic Projects:

Abstract

In recent years, COVID-19 and its economic and societal consequences continue to stance a critical threat to the world. The resulting global divergence creates tensions between organizations and their stakeholders. That risk is worsening partnership and impacts or complicating the coordination needed to tackle common challenges including strategic projects, and enhancing global sustainability agenda such as health programs. Despite the long-lasting efforts to overcome the pandemic, yet there are less studies on its relationship to the partnership and strategic projects management. ECSA-HC as one of the healthcare facilitators and with many projects is the case study in this work. This situation called for further investigations and studies with intentions to examine organizational partnerships and its contribution to the achievement of strategic projects. The study sought to trace the challenges, effectiveness and satisfactions between partnership and strategic projects. The study had three main objectives and used specific theories to explore the relationship between factors and variables. Objectives were stated as follows; to analyze major organizational partnership challenges toward strategic project management, to assess the effectiveness of organizational partnership management on strategic projects, and to understand workable strategies for partnership management for strategic project management. The theory of change, resources based theory and the theory of participation were used. A case study research design and a qualitative research approach was used in this study approaches, in order to address research questions as deeply as possible for the best results. The population of the study was the secretariat staff members by random selection. Key informant interviews and focus group discussions were methods employed for data collection. The target population was 28 samples. The keywords for this study were, COVID-19, partnership, projects, pandemic, and ECSA. Generally, the findings indicated that COVID-19 pandemic had direct and indirect impact to organizational partnership and strategic projects management. ECSA took quick response strategies to overcome the pandemic impacts – which turned to more effective and satisfactory to manage both partnership and projects. However, the adaptability and adoption brought positive changes to the organization. More studies must be conducted to identify and develop more information about the subject and its implications