May 5, 2016
Protecting Gambella’s hidden treasures requires multi-stakeholder involvement, Part 2
Toon de BruynWageningen UR, Centre for Development Innovation Daniel Wiegant CrespoHorn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network Minu HemmatiCatalySD Herman BrouwerWageningen UR, Centre for Development Innovation
With cultures, biodiversity and enterprises that cross political boundaries, multi-stakeholder collaboration is critical to integrated and sustainable development in the Gambella of Ethiopia. Historically, the Gambella landscape, like other parts of the continent, has been characterised by a low level of coordination between different actors and sectors. Development planning di ...
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May 3, 2016
Protecting Gambella’s hidden treasures requires multi-stakeholder involvement, Part 1
Toon de BruynWageningen UR, Centre for Development Innovation Daniel Wiegant CrespoHorn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network Minu HemmatiCatalySD Herman BrouwerWageningen UR, Centre for Development Innovation
The Gambella region in western Ethiopia offers a culturally and ecologically unique landscape, which shares much of its characteristics with neighbouring South Sudan. Largely unknown, it is one of the best-preserved, and relatively inaccessible, regions of Ethiopia. The swampy area and limited infrastructure make it ideal for impressive transboundary mammal migrations between ...
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December 22, 2015
Six individual competencies for working with multi-stakeholder partnerships
Minu HemmatiCatalySD Herman BrouwerWageningen UR, Centre for Development Innovation Jim Woodhill
Good multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) don’t just happen. As discussed in our previous blog, multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) need to be carefully designed and facilitated. People working with MSPs in landscapes are brokering, convening, and moderating communication, meetings, and joint action – all of which can be part of MSP facilitation. Some come to this role ...
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December 16, 2015
Seven principles for effective and healthy multi-stakeholder partnerships
Herman BrouwerWageningen UR, Centre for Development Innovation Minu HemmatiCatalySD Jim Woodhill
Today, there is no policy maker, business representative, or civil society director who will come to a sustainability conference without calling for more stakeholder engagement. There is also growing consensus among academics that any solution towards sustainable development requires partnerships. Likewise, landscape academics point out that landscape approaches are likely to ...
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