Collaboration to Achieve Sustainable Human Settlements

What is collaboration? How do professions collaborate to achieve sustainable human settlements? These challenges are clearly before us. EAROPH Australia has, among its members, a range of professionals who influence Australian human settlements. The challenge is to enable members to collaborate effectively within EAROPH Australia while retaining our professional competence.

Dr. Robyn Keast has studied the processes of collaboration and has applied her knowledge to help the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) to develop Fact Sheets to assist different professionals to work collaboratively to achieve the health and well-being of our young people.

The fact sheets are a resource for EAROPH Australia members who may find the concepts in the ARACY face sheets useful in meeting our professional and ethical challenges.

The fact sheets are:

• 1. What is collaboration?
• 2. Why collaboration, and why now?
• 3. Collaboration and services
• 4. When to collaborate?
• 5. Key elements of collaboration
• 6. Collaboration - Getting going
• 7. Are we ready to collaborate?
• 8. Managing collaborations
• 9. Collaborative leadership
• 10. Evaluating collaborations
• 11. Consensus building and facilitation