Introduction: Transnational Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Beisheim, Marianne; Liese, Andrea; Lorch, Jasmin

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“…Our comparison of 21 transnational PPPs in the areas of environmental, health, and social policy reveals wide variation in PPP effectiveness (see Beisheim and Liese ; Liese and Beisheim ). Around one‐third of the PPPs in our sample show performance ranging from weak to almost entirely ineffective.…”

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Transnational Partnerships: Conditions for Successful Service Provision in Areas of Limited Statehood

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Transnational public–private partnerships (PPPs) are external governance actors in the field of development cooperation and vary in composition, potentially including nonprofit and for‐profit organizations, state and public agencies, and intergovernmental organizations. This article analyzes the conditions under which PPPs have been successful in providing access to basic services (water, sanitation, and food) in areas of limited statehood in Bangladesh, India, and Kenya. We focus on 10 projects carried out by two PPPs that differ in two key respects: legitimacy and institutional design. We show that partnerships with high empirical legitimacy and an appropriate institutional design are best able to fulfill complex tasks in contexts of limited statehood. A participatory approach can promote legitimacy and thus success; projects that lack legitimacy are prone to failure. Additionally, a project's institutional design must address problems that commonly affect areas of limited statehood: It should provide access to resources for capacity development, ensure adequate monitoring, and be tailored to local needs.

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“…Transnational public–private partnerships (PPPs) have come to play an important role in governance for sustainable development over the last two decades (cf. Beisheim and Liese , 194; Pattberg et al. ).…”

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“…This is elaborated in more detail in ''Framing Partnership Impact Assessments: two Complementary Roads'' section. 2 Another definitional debate arises in cross-sector partnership research, where there is still discussion of classifications and typologies of partnerships within and across ''sectors'' (Beisheim 2012;Pattberg et al 2012;Kolk 2014). For instance, much partnership research focuses on a ''third'' sector that constitutes civil society, or examines the distinctive character of partnerships involving ''public'' versus ''private'' sector actors.…”

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Enhancing the Impact of Cross-Sector Partnerships

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This paper addresses the topic of this special symposium issue: how to enhance the impact of crosssector partnerships. The paper takes stock of two related discussions: the discourse in cross-sector partnership research on how to assess impact and the discourse in impact assessment research on how to deal with more complex organizations and projects. We argue that there is growing need and recognition for cross-fertilization between the two areas. Cross-sector partnerships are reaching a paradigmatic status in society, but both research and practice need more thorough evidence of their impacts and of the conditions under which these impacts can be enhanced. This paper develops a framework that should enable a constructive interchange between the two research areas, while also framing existing research into more precise categories that can lead to knowledge accumulation.

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“…Despite their differences, these initiatives aim to integrate a variety of actors in collective decision-making, usually categorized under labels along the spectrum of public/governments, private sector organizations and civil society. Empirical studies have focused on the performance of these initiatives [3][4][5], while others have discussed their political implications in relation to their potential to expand participation, reduce the exclusive nature of the international system and provide for enhanced accountability of global policy-making [6][7][8]. Proponents argue that, ideally, such MSP arrangements represent forms of deliberative democracy at the international level that could contribute to overcoming the international systems' undemocratic Sustainability 2018, 10, 428 3 of 21…”

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Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security

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Multi-stakeholder participation (MSP) has become a central feature in several institutions and processes of global governance. Those who promote them trust that these arrangements can advance the deliberative quality of international institutions, and thereby improve the democratic quality, legitimacy and effectiveness of both the institutional landscape, as well as decisions made within it. This paper employs a heuristic framework to analyze the deliberative quality of MSP. Specifically, it applies Dryzek's deliberative systems framework to the case of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). The assessment shows that the CFS improves the deliberative quality of food security governance by including and facilitating the transmission of discourses from the public to the empowered spaces. However, the deliberative quality of CFS could be higher with stronger accountability mechanisms in place, more meta-deliberation and adoption of CFS outcomes at national and local levels. Reflecting on the limitations of using this heuristic framework to assess MSP, we conclude that the analysis would benefit from more explicit consideration of different forms of power that are part of the social relations between actors involved in such settings. By proposing this analytical approach, we expect to advance a heuristic framework for assessing deliberation in an international context of the growing importance of MSP in sustainability and global governance.

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Introduction: Transnational Partnerships for Sustainable Development

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