Invitation to comment on a Charter for Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
Dear Friends, We are inviting you to make comments on a Charter for Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs). The agreement of the S ustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the broader 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015 has moved the focus away from negotiations to implementation. One of the aspects of implementing the SDGs has already been the development of MSPs. There are over 5000 MSPs on different UN platforms committed to implementing this agenda. Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships have the potential to create positive impacts by creating synergies, building capacity, filling gaps and scaling-up development efforts. They also are a concrete way to work across the Goals and addressing the interconnected character sustainable development. In engaging with MSPs it is important to learn from the past. The experience of the partnerships created for implementing the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) agreements in 2002 was not entirely good. Many were created...