Learning from practice
“‘Partnership platforms’ are crucial mechanisms to convene stakeholders around key development or business sustainability issues, and to systematically catalyse partnerships for the SDGs.
However there is a relatively small number of platforms that have been operating over a sufficient period of time, with sufficient evidence of impact, to be able to draw out lessons about what makes them effective. This makes it hard to learn from the hard-won experience of those few pioneers that have achieved breakthrough impacts.
This report attempts to respond to these challenges in the following ways:
- Presenting a basic partnership platform typology, to help provide a shared basis for knowledge and experience exchange;
- Providing a brief review of experience of different types of platforms using existing public evaluations, toolkits and reviews; also drawing on TPI’s own direct experience of supporting the development of these platforms; and
- Presenting a set of characteristics of a transformative partnership platform, based on examples drawn from existing practice.
