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The implementation of sustainable development efforts often requires finding joint solutions to complex challenges and cooperation between different societal actors in order to pool expertise and resources. Such cross-sector stakeholder partnerships require patience and persistence, but, when managed well, they can build the cross-sector stability we need to address global challenges and find innovative solutions. Any attempt to initiate, implement or facilitate such cooperation processes is an intervention into a fragile and often controversial system of actors, requiring careful attention to the quality of relationships and interaction among stakeholders. This chapter discusses the main concepts related to multi-stakeholder partnerships and the key factors for their successful implementation. Laying out a methodological background developed by the Collective Leadership Institute (CLI) and drawing on its 2 years of extensive experience with the African Cashew initiative (ACi), the chapter elaborates on eight key factors for the success of complex stakeholder partnerships and illustrates their relevance with a series of examples from the initiative.
An erratum to this chapter is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04051-6_13
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Kuenkel, P., Aitken, A. (2015). Key Factors for the Successful Implementation of Stakeholder Partnerships: The Case of the African Cashew initiative. In: Bitzer, V., Hamann, R., Hall, M., Griffin-EL, E. (eds) The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04051-6_10
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