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Like all distributed models, this offers some cost sharing and creates a pool of ideas
and perspectives. It allows economies of scale if functions like storage are centralised.
It may offer more reliable preservation because processes can be better controlled and
more specialised expertise used than in some other models. Decision making, largely
in the hands of the central agency, may be more efficient than in more equally
distributed models.
On the other hand, this model may not encourage ownership of the programme among
the peripheral partners, so it may not be effective in encouraging transfer of skills from
the central agency.
Such a model is probably good for beginning programmes seeking to collaborate with
large, advanced programmes. It is also suitable where there may be one programme
willing to take ongoing responsibility and a number of others who can help but are not
sure about their long-term commitment.
This model also offers cost sharing and the input of ideas, but it may have the
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