Resources
rssMSP Tool Guide
The official companion to the MSP Guide, containing 60 tools to facilitate multi-stakeholder partnerships, is now available.
GPPAC: Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: A Manual
Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict: This manual explores the viability, options and experiences of multistakeholder processes from the perspective of civil society organisations (CSOs) working to prevent conflict and build peace.
Building Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: A Guide to Country-Led Action
This guide has been developed in response to the growing demand for new models of multistakeholder collaboration to achieve food security, sustainable development and other global goals outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Guidelines for Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development
Decision support for research, development and funding agencies on how to design, budget and implement impactful Innovation Platforms
This important publication provides a critical analysis of Innovation Platforms, their defining features, key functions, and what they can and – as importantly – cannot do.
Public-private-civic partnerships for sustainable landscapes
The aim of this Practical Guide is to share various organizations’ experiences in developing multi-stakeholder initiatives with strong private sector engagement and effective governance systems that promote sustainable land and water management not only at farm but also at landscape scale.
The attitudes of the Broker of a Transforming Partnership
What does it take to broker a partnership on climate change, circular economy and other system changes?
Brokering a transforming partnership is a special kind of trade. Therefore, being a broker of a transforming partnership requires a specific set of personal attitudes.
Political economy analysis: Topic Guide
This topic guide provides pointers to some of the key literature on political economy analysis and evidence of its impact on aid effectiveness in different contexts. It includes examples of analyses at country, sector and programme level.
Shaping behaviour: How institutions evolve
Development is about transforming institutions – the cultural values, legal frameworks, informal arrangements, market mechanisms and political processes that perpetuate inequality, overlook market externalities and constrain economic progress. If aid is failing, as some argue, it has much to do with agencies misunderstanding institutions and how they change.
Author: Jim Woodhill
Publication date: October 2008
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
"How do we change the structure of systems to produce more of what we want and less of that which is undesirable?" Donella Meadows’ Leverage Points is a classic reference for those seeking to implement change.
Building Ecosystems for Systems Change
How do we collaborate to create ecosystems that support innovation for systems change?
