Why Multistakeholder Partnerships Matter for Inclusive Development: Lessons from Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Today’s biggest challenges—like inequality, climate change, and health crises—are deeply connected and too complex for any one actor to solve alone. Multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) bring sectors together to tackle root causes and share financial and non-financial resources for lasting change. In addition to being critical vehicles for collaboration, MSPs, if done right, center communities’ agency and ensure the equitable involvement of local actors. Philanthropy can go further, faster, by joining forces with others. WINGS believes collaboration and cross-sector partnerships are key to tackling today’s challenges. As the Philanthropy Transformation Initiative urges us, we must shift our mindsets to enable change, align behind our values, and act with the future in mind. Through the #LiftUpPhilanthropy Fund, WINGS, the global network of actors who grow, strengthen and transform philanthropy, collaborated with Africa Venture Philanthropy Association, Latimpacto and Sattva Consulting on three regional studies to illustrate the state of these multi- stakeholder partnerships in Africa, South and South East Asia, and Latin America. The studies identify common recommendations to create enabling ecosystems and provide philanthropy and policy makers with tools and resources to build and scale partnerships.
