Background
The project "Platform for 2030 Agenda Partnerships" is commissioned with the creation and coordination of a national platform to strengthen multi-stakeholder partnerships. These partnerships are considered an important means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 in New York. As a central piece of the global partnership, MSPs are also explicitly referenced within the SDG 17 targets.
Through the collaboration of stakeholders from government, civil society, academia, and the private sector, MSPs are to engender synergies and mobilize capacities to achieve the SDGs. However it already became clear during the Charter for the Future (Zukunftscharta) process, a central component of Germany’s 2030 Agenda implementation preparation, that existing MSPs were not consistently successful. Despite that numerous experiences of existing partnerships exist, there is a lack of systematic processing of this information. Dialogue initiatives as well as support and coaching opportunities for the organization and development of MSPs are often fragmented and unknown to potentially interested stakeholders. Therefore, guidance and a framework structure for existing and new MSPs are missing.
Our Approach
The platform serves to close this gap by providing information on and for MSPs, while simultaneously promoting MSPs as promising modes of cooperation for the implementation of international development goals. This is to be achieved through the development of a peer learning network as well as capacity development for existing and new global MSPs and their stakeholders. First and foremost, the platform is to provide services for the developers of MSPs in Germany. In the future, the platform could also serve to facilitate global networking and learning exchange with other MSP worldwide. The goal of the platform is to link and support stakeholders within in the MSP field, as well as to bring them into a results-oriented dialog. Furthermore, the platform will inform publicly and make available the knowledge acquired within the above-mentioned processes. Central to the conceptual approach of the project is the inclusion of relevant stakeholders in the process. The collaboration between the various partners is to build trust, contribute to a better understanding of multi-stakeholder processes, and support the sustainable establishment of the platform.