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Multi-Stakeholder partnerships: Introduction
On this page you can find information about a range of partnerships in the UK that promote implementation of commitments made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002.
'Type II' Partnerships emerged from the World Summit of Sustainable Development and are an important mechanism for delivering on WSSD commitments at national, regional and international level. The UK views partnerships as helping Government, business and civil society deliver more, by working together, than they would alone. A list of partnerships in which the UK is involved can be found below.
In the build up to the Summit, the Prime Minister announced five sectoral initiatives in March 2001. These are partnerships for the delivery of sustainable development between government and wider stakeholders , including NGOs and business. The initiatives cover financial services, water, tourism, energy and forestry.
Since the Summit the UK Government has continued its support for Type II partnerships, reporting on UK Partnerships on the second anniversary of the Summit, and partnerships figure prominently as a means of implementation in the UK Sustainable Development Strategy 2005. The UK Government has demonstrated visible leadership internationally, participating in the Rome (2004) and Marrakech (2005) International Partnerships Fora, and many UK Government-involved partnerships participating in the annual CSD Partnerships Fair.
Learning Network on Partnerships
The Learning Network on Partnerships (LNP) was established as a cross-Whitehall resource by Defra in April 2005, following an announcement by Elliot Morley MP, UK Minister for Environment and Climate Change, at the Marrakech Forum in March 2005. The LNP seeks to provide a platform for information exchange, capacity building, policy dialogue and a further embedding of more effective partnership models across UK Government. The Network is for Government officials working in partnership and seeks to:
- Facilitate discussion and best practice sharing between practitioners.
- Serve as an information source for new and existing HMG partnerships.
- Address the skills gap through training programmes, workshops and 'partnership surgeries'.
- Build capacity on different aspects of partnerships, including monitoring & evaluation.
- Enhance policy co-ordination and lesson learning from HMG-engaged partnerships.
Type II Partnerships
- London Principles
- Partners for Water & Sanitation (PAWS)
- Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
- Partners for Environmental Cooperation in Europe (PECE)
- Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species
- Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP)
- Partnership for Principle 10 (PP10)
- Great Ape Survival Programme (GrASP)
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
- Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBP)
- Asia Forest Partnership (AFP)
- White Water to Blue Water (WW2BW)
- CSR Academy
- SEED Initiative
- The Travel Foundation
- UK Forest Partnership for Action
- The EU Water Initiative
- The EU Energy Initiative
- Population and Sustainability Network
UK-Involved Partnerships
- British Overseas NGO's for Development (BOND)
- Groundwork South Africa
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Birdlife South Africa
- Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future (previously UNED-UK)
- WWF "Our World"
- Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation
- The Partnering Initiative
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Updated: 14 March 2008