Bridging Leadership for Collaboration
Bridging Leadership for Collaboration
Across the Early Childhood Care and Development Ecosystem in Bangladesh.
A new resource pack developed by Synergos, Bangladesh.
This resource pack has been developed to celebrate and lift up leadership for collaboration in the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) ecosystem in Bangladesh.
The pack has been crafted through the commitment, collaboration and creativity of many organizations and individuals in Bangladesh and beyond, who contributed to the design and implementation of the Bangladesh government’s Integrated Community Based Center for Child Care, Protection and Swim-Safe Facilities project (the ICBC project) led by the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs’ (MoWCA). These organizations and individuals were from government departments, NGOs, funding organizations, the Bangladesh ECD network, and independent experts and consultants. Together they held subject area expertise in drowning prevention, health and nutrition, early childhood care and development, pre-school education, disaster management, local governance, multi-stakeholder collaboration, emergent facilitation and wellbeing promotion.
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Listening To and Sensing the Wider System
Through examples of how frameworks and tools have been applied in the ICBC project, this section introduces the resource pack and explores how systems thinking can help us see challenges from new perspectives, deepen our understanding of different experiences, recognize connections and uncover opportunities for meaningful change.
Taking Action Together – Building Trust and Inclusive Collaboration
This chapter explores how we understand and navigate relationships and power, cultivate trust, and bring people together around a shared purpose. It introduces practical frameworks and tools to support collective learning, compassionate communication and collaborative decision-making, helping to create the conditions for meaningful collaboration and collective action.
Looking within – Inner work and self-care
This chapter explores the inner work and facilitation practices embedded in the ICBC workshops, and how these shape our ability to create and hold safe spaces where people can come together with courage, build trust and move towards collaboration. It highlights the importance of self-awareness and personal inner work in becoming a trustworthy facilitator who can hold space for others with openness, care and intention.
The Journey of a Bridging Leader Facilitator – Holding Space, Fostering Change
This chapter explores the role of a Bridging Leader Facilitator and the skills, principles and practices that support this work. It introduces resources for navigating tension, recognising the context and perspectives we bring into a space, and designing environments that foster trust, inclusion, connection and the conditions for transformation.
Facilitation resources
This section provides facilitation guidance and practical resources for each chapter, including step-by-step instructions for exercises and activities that facilitators can use to support learning, reflection and meaningful engagement.