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Multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) are an essential approach to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals, maximizing humanitarian assistance, and building resilience within communities. While the work of MSPs is complex, their success or failure can often be attributed to a single root cause: how well they engage the people and communities whose lives they aim to improve.
To help MSPs achieve real, sustainable impact, we’ve assembled this playbook of powerful, inclusive strategies to turn ‘beneficiaries’ into partners. Through these approaches you should be able to design better, more context-appropriate, and more innovative programs, develop stronger local buy-in and leverage a range of local resources towards delivering more, and more sustainable, impact.
This course goes beyond presenting general good practice. In each lesson, you will find case studies of programs that are successfully (and sometimes unsuccessfully!) working with communities, assessment questions that analyze your MSP’s strengths and weaknesses on your own metrics dashboard, tools you can bring to your next meeting, and an interactive action planning tool where you can plan for the future.
The course is for all those wanting to increase the impact of their MSPs through stronger engagement with people and communities. It will suit individuals with some experience of partnering, who are currently in or interested in joining an MSP that aims for on-the-ground impact, either as part of a secretariat, or representing one of the partners. Participants should be sufficiently senior and positioned to be able to influence the course of the partnership or their own organization, either directly, or through supporting a senior colleague, or champion to do so.
Learners who pass this course are eligible to receive a Certificate of Achievement for this course through the USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD). CPD is a recognized leader in the public diplomacy research and scholarship community and is the definitive go-to destination for practitioners and international leaders in public diplomacy, while pursuing an innovative research agenda designed to bridge the study-practice gap.
Philanthropy University is a non-degree, diploma or credit granting initiative. Philanthropy U, Inc. is the concept developer and sponsor of the initiative. Learners are not entitled to earn college or other academic credit.
All use, reproduction and distribution of content in this course is subject to a CC-BY-3.0 license.