Toolbook Series

The SDG Partnership Guidebook is the flagship publication of the SDG Partnership Accelerator and serves as a practical resource to help build high impact multi-stakeholder partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals. The Guidebook aims to convey the magic of how multi-stakeholder partnerships at country level can deliver significantly towards the Sustainable Development Goals and provide guidance on how to build robust, effective collaborations that can achieve extraordinary results. Download...

Partnerships across societal sector are an essential mechanism to deliver the SDGs. However, despite the rhetoric around collaboration, we are still not seeing sufficient impact being delivered compared with the scale of the goals. Given the significant investment of both time and resources required to develop and manage them, partnerships  should only be utilized when they have the genuine potential to create value - both for partners, and in terms of impact, well in excess of their inputs. While ...

Better Together: Unleashing the Power of the Private Sector to Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases The scale of the non-communicable disease challenge the world faces is staggering. Tackling the NCD crisis will require a significant shift in the way we live and work. This can only be achieved through an ‘all-of-society’ approach, systematically combining the power and reach of all sectors. The Partnering Initiative (TPI), the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and Bupa have wor...

This booklet, developed in collaboration with WFP, is the second in The Partnering Initiative’s Navigator series. It has been designed as a practical guide to help users navigate the challenges of dealing with different organisational cultures when working in cross-sector partnerships. Differences in organisational and professional cultures are a common source of misunderstanding in international collaboration: they can reduce the efficiency and the impact of cross-sector partnerships and can gener...

The Zambia Partnering Toolbook  is designed to support the uptake and delivery of partnerships that contribute to sustainable development in Zambia. It provides the rationale for forming these partnerships and offers a range of practical tools (below) that can help people work in partnership more effectively. The toolbook supports the work of the Zambia Business in Development Facility. It draws on international experience from The Partnering Initiative; an extensive scoping study; extensive desk r...

The Brokering Guidebook illuminates the critical part played by brokers in multi sector partnerships as both process managers and behind the scenes leaders. It focuses on partnership brokering - that essential intermediary function that enables partners to work well together and ensure the maximum effectiveness of their partnership. The Brokering Guidebook has been created to: - Illuminate the critical part played by brokers in multi-sector partnerships as both process managers and behind...

Talking the Walk takes a highly practical look at the realities of communicating in and about partnership. Talking the Walk is a toolbook for partnership practitioners from all sectors, to enable them to understand the importance of good communication to their work, and to help them develop techniques to improve their communications - both inside, and beyond, the partnership. This book has contributions in the form of case studies, think pieces and tools from more than fifteen practitioners...

The Case Study Toolbook is designed to help individuals to create their own case studies more successfully. The Case Study Toolbook aims to provide insights into the process of successful cross-sector partnering, create better case study collection and dissemination methods and deepen understanding of how case studies may be used more effectively as tools for change. The starting point for the toolbook was to address the apparent discrepancy between the idea of case studies as valuable sources ...

Moving On addresses the exit aspects of a partnership - a part of the cycle often unplanned or mishandled. The Moving On toolbook focuses on the exit aspects of a partnership a part of the cycle often unplanned or mishandled. It also looks at the the indications of success that can be associated with exits; achieving goals and reaching conclusions. It focuses on partnership brokering that essential intermediary function that enables partners to work well together and ensure the maximum effectiveness...

The Partnering with Governments Navigator is aimed at assisting donors, NGOs and practitioners from the private sector in navigating the challenges and seizing the opportunities of partnership with governments. The Navigator was developed with GIZ (then GTZ) as part of the Partnering with Governments programme (2007-10). The programme was developed to explore how to build the capacity of business and government in sub-Saharan Africa to collaborate more effectively in addressing sustainable development...