The SEEP Practitioner Learning Program (PLP) in Building Alliances to Serve HIV & AIDS-Impacted Communities in sub-Saharan Africa (BASICS) developed a Partnership Toolkit to help organizations address some of these challenges and build successful partnerships. The Toolkit outlines nine stages of a partnership, from selecting a partner to evaluating a partnership at the end of an intervention, using examples from the organizations that participated in the PLP:

1. Self-Evaluation
2. Partner Selection
3. Pre-Agreement Discussion Guideline
4. Agreement Templates
5. Action Plan
6. Management Team Checklist
7. Personnel Assessment
8. Monitoring Guideline
9. Partnership Evaluation

The Toolkit was one of the new resources discussed in the online conference, “Partnership Planning for HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development” co-hosted by the SEEP HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development (HAMED) Working Group and the BASICS PLP from October 19 through October 26, 2009. The agenda was a follow-up to previous HAMED on-line conferences, Strategies for HIV and MED Programming (June 2008) and Savings Led
Approaches (July 2009).