In-country multi-stakeholder platforms: The missing ingredient to systematically drive collaboration for Agenda 2030
To achieve the ambitious targets of Agenda 2030 there will need to be far wider, and more effective, collaboration across societal sectors. Multi-stakeholder partnership platforms have an essential role to play: providing a systematic mechanism through which to engage business along with all development actors, and together innovate and develop partnerships to tackle business and development challenges.
But how do you create platforms that deliver? How can you build ownership and engagement and ensure such platforms create real sustainable impact? This side event at the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation’s second High Level Meeting will bring together a panel of people who have created successful platforms around the world, to:
- Build understanding of partnership platforms as a critical mechanism to engage ‘all of society’ in delivering the SDGs, and supporting a system transformation approach
- Showcase how development cooperation can leverage the investment of the private sector towards the SDGs
- Articulate the building blocks and critical success factors partnership platform
- Support development actors in thinking through how partnership platforms can support their strategies
Panel includes:
Darian Stibbe, Executive Director, The Partnering Initiative
Geoffrey Sakulanda, President, Zambia Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Laura Bennison, World Vision, Kenya, East Africa Humanitarian Business Platform
Angelita Flores, Director, Aliarse, Costa Rica
Katie Fry Hester, Director, Business Partnership Action
Event time and location:
Shimba Hills Room, Kenya International Convention Centre
Wednesday 30 November, 1:30-2:30 pm
Further info: Katie Fry Hester – katie.fry.hester@partnerinit.org
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