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Partnership Platforms for the SDGs

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.
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