
150 SEVEN SECRETS FOR NEGOTIATING WITH GOVERNMENT
in a negotiation to agree to your proposal. Governments, like pri-
vate parties, also seek to gain rewards from their negotiations, but
as we discussed in Chapter 2, individual governments and depart-
ments may have their own special way of calculating rewards. For
example, the expectation of a reward for Sudan in the form of
increased development assistance was an important factor in se-
curing a country agreement for the Ford Foundation.
In some negotiations, you may discover that you do not have
sufficient resources to give the other side the reward it is seeking.
For example, a government may not