English to French Social Sciences International Org/Dev/Coop

Contexte : XX est un bailleur de fonds administré par YY, qui lui oeuvre pour le développement.

The trend toward a closer XX-YY partnership is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, both because of external pressures to achieve greater coherence, and because both XX and YY increasingly recognize that working closely together on the basis of their original complementary mandates is the best way to maximize development impact.  As this happens, however, the challenge for XX as the much smaller entity will be to position itself within YY - and with YY toward external audiences - such that its distinctive role value added are fully understood.  This means working together with YY to more closely define concrete objectives and how to reach them.

Je ne sais pas dans quel ordre remettre ces mots.
Question subsidiaire : "are fully understood", ne devrait pas plutôt être "is fully understood"?

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