Resources
rssRealising the Potential of Civil Society-led South-South Development Cooperation
Author: Moilwa, T.
Publication date: 2015
Civil Society Organisations from the BRICS countries and Mexico are now leading a huge range of South-South Development Cooperation (SSDC) initiatives. These organisations have a significant role to play in the post-2015 development cooperation landscape.
Multi-Stakeholder Sustainability Alliances in Agri-Food Chains: A Framework for Multi-Disciplinary Research
Authors: Dentoni, D. & Peterson, C.
Publication date: 2011 In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 14 (5)
This study provides a definition of Multi-Stakeholder Sustainability Alliances (MSSAs) based on describing the platforms formed and/or joined by the fifty largest food and beverage multinational corporations (MNCs).
Approaches for Setting-up Multi-Stakeholder Platforms for Agricultural Research and Development
Authors: Adekunle, A.A. & Fatunbi, A.O.
Publication date: 2012 In:World Applied Sciences Journal 16 (7): 981-988
This article introduces the concept of Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) and the constituent Innovation Platform (IP) as a workable multistakeholders approach for sustainable agricultural research and development.
Dialogic Approaches to Global Challenges: Moving from “Dialogue Fatigue” to Dialogic Change Processes
Authors: Pruitt, B. & Waddell, S.
Publication date: 2005
This working paper of the Generative Dialogue Project looks at dialogic change processes, which involve people coming together seeking to make positive change through conversation and agreement as an answer to the challenges of globalization.
It zooms in on the case of climate change, followed by an analysis of global change initiatives. It concludes that this new model of organizing will not supplant the existing international system but it is an essential complement to it.
Innovation that sticks (in Dutch)
Author: Stenden Hogeschool
Publication date: 2012
In deze publicatie van Stenden KennisCentrum Sociale Innovatie belicht de rol van sociale innovatie in een reeks activiteiten en bedrijfscases uit Nederland.
Sociale innovatie: meerwaarde in krachtig samenspel
Authors: Everts, P. et alii.
Publication date: 2014 (in Sigma online)
- De aandacht voor sociale inovatie is de afgelopen tien jaar wereldwijd toegenomen.
- Nu de economie weer aantrekt lijkt de aandacht weer af te nemen en dat is onwenselijk.
- Om sociale innovatie een impuls te geven is meer samenwerking nodig, een bundeling van krachten, creativiteit, eigenaarschap van vraagstukken, technologie en leiderschap.
How do governments become great? Ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
Author: Andrews, M.
Publication date: 2013
Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: ‘how do governments become great?’.
Analysing stakeholder power dynamics in multi-stakeholder processes: insights of practice from Africa and Asia
Authors: Brouwer, H., Hiemstra, W., Vugt, S.v. & Walters, H.
Publication date: 2013, In: Knowledge Management for Development Journal 9(3): 11-31
Complexity, Modeling, and Natural Resource Management
Authors: Cilliers, P. et alii. (for the Resilience Alliance)
Publication date: 2013, In: Ecology and Society 18 (3): 1
This paper contends that natural resource management (NRM) issues are, by their very nature, complex and that both scientists and managers in this broad field will benefit from a theoretical understanding of complex systems. It starts off by presenting the core features of a view of complexity that not only deals with the limits to our understanding, but also points toward a responsible and motivating position.
Global action networks: Agents for collective action
Author: Glasbergen, P., in Global Environmental Change 20(1): 130-141.
Publication Date: 2010
Global action networks (GANs) are civil society initiated multi-stakeholder arrangements that aim to fulfill a leadership role for systemic change in global governance for sustainable development. The paper develops a network approach to study some of these GANs as motivators of global collective action and investigates how in their interaction processes the actors involved create the organizational capacity for collective change.
