This book serves as a practical resource to help build high impact multi-stakeholder partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Guidebook aims to convey the magic of how multi-stakeholder partnerships at country level can deliver significantly towards the Sustainable Development Goals and provide guidance on how to build robust, effective collaborations that can achieve extraordinary results.

The Guidebook features:

-1. Frameworks to help organisations understand, identify and select the most appropriate forms of collaboration

-2. A series of tools that support organisations through each step of partnership development and management

-3. Guidance on the more in-depth, trickier, but essential, partnering aspects – including trust, power imbalances, and the frustrations and challenges of working across different organisational cultures

This open source book is a course-guideline providing an overview of a variety of issues in small group communication. Small groups are examined with an emphasis on how messages, talk, symbols, and discourse contribute to effective small groups. Answering questions such as:

1. What is a small group?
2. When should individuals or groups be used to make decisions?
3. How do groups form and develop? What kinds of stages do they go through?
4. What kinds of strategies promote effective group decision making?
5. How do issues of power and social influence affect group life?
6. What leads to effective group leadership?
7. How can conflict within small groups be managed constructively?*

Book Synopsis

The MSP Guide

About this book: In recent years, multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have become popular for tackling the complex challenges of sustainable development. This guide provides a practical framework for the design and facilitation of these collaborative processes that work across the boundaries of business, government, civil society and science.

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Sustaining Innovation

About this book: The systematic and continuous generation of value in any innovation system relies on collaboration between different groups, who must overcome multiple, often competing agendas and needs to work together fruitfully over the long term.

Featuring contributions from leading researchers, business leaders, and policymakers representing India, Africa, North America, Europe, and Australasia, this volume investigates different combinations of collaborative arrangements among innovation actors, many of which are changing conventional expectations of institutional relationships.

Authors address aspects of open innovation, co-creation, and user-centered design—all testaments to the rapidly shifting landscape. At the same time, many businesses, academics, and governments, not to mention non-profit organizations, foundations, and society at large, are active in conversations about how to pursue a more sustainable model of innovation. The pursuit of this holy grail of innovation is both facilitated and complicated by an ever-accelerating technological environment in which social networking and mobile tools are emerging.

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