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Issue 41 : Facilitating multi-actor change
In the practice of capacity development, we have seen a gradual shift away from training individuals to strengthening organizations. Currently, the emphasis seems to be shifting again; from working with single organisations to facilitating multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs). But it would be a mistake to assume that MSPs are just the latest fad in the discourse on capacity development (CD). In fact, they have always been an integral part of human interaction. MSPs spring up whenever people or organisations see that collaboration can help to seize development opportunities.
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Multi-actor systems as entry points to capacity development
Reasons for a revision of intervention logic
It is often assumed that capacity development starts from within individuals and organisations and then permeates into society. But capacity also comes about through interaction between actors. This suggests that a change in intervention logic and repertoire can boost effectiveness.
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Multi-actor systems as entry points to capacity development
26 December 2010
Reasons for a revision of intervention logic
It is often assumed that capacity development starts from within individuals and organisations and then permeates into society. But capacity also comes about through interaction between actors. This suggests that a change in intervention logic and repertoire can boost effectiveness.
More- Search Terms:
- analytical frameworks
- casestudies
- africa
- dialogue
- rural development
What it takes
26 December 2010
Competencies needed to design and facilitate MSPs
Multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) are playing an increasingly important role in sustainable development. Designing and facilitating MSPs depends on a set of diverse competencies.
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- toolkits
The dynamics of change
10 December 2010
Dealing with power – the key to successful MSPs?
For over ten years, Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) has been offering capacity development programmes to support the practitioners of multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs). One of the most important functions of these programmes is to prepare facilitators to work with power and conflict in order to bring about successful outcomes.
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Case studies: Multi-actor systems as entry points to capacity development
21 December 2010
The following case studies from Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya provide some real-life experiences of how multi-actor capacity development takes place.
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Facilitating WASH forums
08 December 2010
Multi-stakeholder partnerships on water, sanitation and hygiene in Africa
Clean water and basic sanitation are among the most powerful drivers for human development.
The crisis in water and sanitation is a crisis mainly for the poor, with some two-thirds of those
lacking access to clean water living on less than US$2 a day.
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The Change Alliance
10 December 2010
The Change
Alliance is an emerging global network that aspires to increase the effectiveness of
multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) working for transformational social change, particularly in
complex settings.
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- communities of practice
- knowledge-sharing
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Paradox or synergy?
13 December 2010
Multi-stakeholder
partnerships as a donor strategy
The Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO) is a Dutch donor agency engaged in facilitating and funding multi-stakeholder partnerships. Its unique approach has been adopted by five other organisations in the ICCO Alliance.
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From token inclusion to transformative engagement
09 December 2010
Urban
planning in India
Although labelled ‘participatory’, many urban planning processes in India involve only select elite groups. This article explains what is required to achieve genuine participation involving all stakeholders, including the poor and the marginalised.
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Working with power and love
09 December 2010
Solving our toughest problems - uncoventionally
Conventional approaches to solving problems cannot deal effectively with increasingly complex social crises. Our efforts to address ‘tough’ issues in this way often cause us to become ever more confused, polarised and stuck.
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Facilitating multi-actor change
08 December 2010
In the practice of capacity development, we have seen a gradual shift away from training individuals to strengthening organizations. Currently, the emphasis seems to be shifting again; from working with single organisations to facilitating multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs). But it would be a mistake to assume that MSPs are just the latest fad in the discourse on capacity development (CD). In fact, they have always been an integral part of human interaction. MSPs spring up whenever people or organisations see that collaboration can help to seize development opportunities.
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