Backmatter - The MSP Guide: How to Design and Facilitate Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

Brouwer, Herman; Woodhill, Jim; Hemmati, Minu; Verhoosel, Karèn; Vugt, Simone van

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“…The existing literature mainly focusses on providing step-by-step advice on how to implement and facilitate innovation platforms for technological or institutional change. Such implementation and facilitation advice can be found in Adekunle et al (2010), Makini et al (2013), Brouwer and Woodhill (2016), Francis et al (2016) and Nederlof and Pyburn (2012). What currently lacks in the literature are discussions on the usefulness of innovation platforms in overcoming a range of agricultural challenges.…”

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Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development

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SUMMARYInnovation platforms are fast becoming part of the mantra of agricultural research for development projects and programmes. Their basic tenet is that stakeholders depend on one another to achieve agricultural development outcomes, and hence need a space where they can learn, negotiate and coordinate to overcome challenges and capture opportunities through a facilitated innovation process. Although much has been written on how to implement and facilitate innovation platforms efficiently, few studies support ex-ante appraisal of when and for what purpose innovation platforms provide an appropriate mechanism for achieving development outcomes, and what kinds of human and financial resource investments and enabling environments are required. Without these insights, innovation platforms run the risk of being promoted as a panacea for all problems in the agricultural sector. This study makes clear that not all constraints will require innovation platforms and, if there is a simpler and cheaper ‡ Corresponding author.

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Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development

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“…Although these guiding principles can be useful to inform what CRFS governance should look like, they do not necessarily enlighten us on how governance structures and processes can be set up or strengthened. The Multi-Stakeholder Process model by Brouwer et al (2016) can shed a light on how to engage in such processes and the CRFS Toolkit (FAO, RUAF Global Partnership, & Wilfred Laurier University, 2018) can provide valuable input on steps and tools that can be used to guide these…”

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“…In the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) Guide by Brouwer et al (2016), six stages are described in an MSP process: 1) connection, 2) shared language, 3) divergence, 4) co-creation, 5) convergence and 6) commitment ( Figure 6). The first phase is about defining a common issue around which the collaboration is centred, with the next step being the development of a shared framing of that issue.…”

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“…From there, all the different associations and views on that issue are explored in the divergence phase, followed by jointly creating different lines or pathways for action to address the issue. In the convergence phase, a specific pathway or set of pathways is chosen and then commitment is created amongst partners to follow up and take action (Brouwer et al, 2016).…”

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“…The six phases of an MSP process (Brouwer et al 2016) In terms of a CRFS governance process, the entry point for collaboration can be varied. One of the conclusions of the case study by FAO is that it is not so much about finding one perfect entry point.…”

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Backmatter - The MSP Guide: How to Design and Facilitate Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development

Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development

City region food system governance : guiding principles and lessons learned from case studies around the world

Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis

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