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Collective Impact Partnership and Backbone Organizations as Enablers of Children’s Well-Being

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Partnerships for the Goals

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Backbone organization; Co-creation of services; Collaboration; Collective impact; Common agenda; Cooperation; Mutual understanding

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In this entry, the question of partnership is approached from a perspective centered around the creation of a common agenda based on trust and from the children’s point of view. Partnership and collaboration have traditionally been viewed as mechanisms to create bridges between organizations and institutions from the private, public, and nongovernmental sectors in order to enhance funder collaboratives, public–private partnerships, multistakeholder initiatives, social sector networks, and collective impact initiatives. It was not however until Kania and Kramer’s (2011) seminal work on collective impact when this subject came to be viewed as a developmental process aiming at the creation of a common agenda and mutually agreed activities and consisting of five integral parts: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually...

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  1. Social and Health Management, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Petri Virtanen

  2. Itla Children’s Foundation, Helsinki, Finland

    Tiina Ristikari

  3. Department of Children, Adolescents and Families, Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

    Tiina Ristikari

  4. Faculty of Medicine, Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Mika Niemelä

  5. Social and Health Management, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Petri Virtanen

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Virtanen, P., Ristikari, T., Niemelä, M. (2020). Collective Impact Partnership and Backbone Organizations as Enablers of Children’s Well-Being. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71067-9_111-1

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