Multi-stakeholder partnerships guide - Online portal

This online portal includes over useful 60 tools and methods especially selected to support and evaluate multi-stakeholder partnership processes.

This resource and the following information was contributed to BetterEvaluation by Tiina Pasanen, Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

Authors and their affiliation

Herman Brouwer and Jim Woodhill with Minu Hemmati, Karèn Verhoosel and Simone van Vugt, Wageningen UR's Centre for Development Innovation

Key features

This online portal provides a range of information, resources, tools and methods for the facilitation and evaluation of multi-stakeholder partnerships. It contains:

• Topics: This section presents a framework for a multi-stakeholder process. It includes the rationale behind holding MSPs, what principles are seen as essential to consider and an explanation of the key components in designing and facilitating a successful MSP.
• Resources: Selected articles, books, guides, videos and other media which contain useful information regarding MSP's.
• Tools and Methods: This section presents the tools and methods which the Centre for Development Innovation use in their work.
• Case Studies: This section draws together reports of MSPs on varied topics and in varied global locations.
• Groups: This section provides the opportunity to form working groups as spaces to collaborate on projects, discuss seminars or events, or share experiences. Some of these groups are open for all to join while some are by request/invite. 
• Events: Upcoming events related to MSPs.

How have you used or intend on using this resource?

The chapter on Reflective monitoring provides both a rationale for embedding monitoring practices into a MSP from the start, as well as some specific questions that can be used to guide the reflective monitoring practice:

• Has a learning culture and environment been created?
• Have success criteria been defined?
• Have monitoring mechanisms been developed and implemented? 
• Has progress been reviewed and evaluated and lessons identified?
• Have the lessons learned been fed back into the strategy and implementation procedures?

Why would you recommend it to other people?

This portal includes over useful 60 tools and methods especially selected to support and evaluate multi-stakeholder partnership processes.

It is clearly written and goes though the rationale of multi-stakeholder partnerships, what they are, how to design them, what makes them effective and how to move on from design to practice. It is available for free download.