Philipp Pattberg and Oscar Widerberg of the CONNECT project just published a new paper discussing nine conditions for enhancing the performance of multistakeholder partnerships for sustainable development. Such partnerships have become popular tools for attaining sustainable development goals. Improving their effectiveness is important since their popularity increases despite poor past track record. The recommendations revolve around the Actors, Process and Context of partnerships, suggesting that much can be done to improve all dimensions of partnership building, maintenance and performance.

The paper is available under open access here: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-015-0684-2