Partnership with Engineers without borders

yes, for implementing any such partnership it would be necessary to have a good working relationship and contacts and planning early on - but here at the strategy level we only need to "recommend the broad direction" and, if that recommendation is accepted, then the people actually implementing it would work out the specifics at that time. It would be inappropriate for a strategic recommendation to be proscriptive to the level of saying we should ally with a specific organisation or on a specific project.