Inclusive partnerships for effective development

Delivering on the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will require mobilising all available financing, knowledge, skills and technology. To make this possible, it is essential to build inclusive partnerships for effective development that can create synergies and capitalise on diverse and complementary contributions. This in turn requires an enabling policy, legal and regulatory environment. Many development partners will need to change and adapt the way they work. This chapter looks at the existing environment for inclusive development partnerships. In particular, it reviews the current level of civil society engagement in development as well as the quality of public-private dialogue, focusing on: current efforts to create an environment that maximises the contribution of civil society organisations to development (Indicator 2) and whether essential conditions for good dialogue between the public and private sectors are in place (Indicator 3). It also explores how multi-stakeholder partnerships work in practice. The chapter concludes by proposing key elements for building more inclusive partnerships for development.