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Meta‐Governance of Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Actors' Perspectives from Kenya

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  • Marianne Beisheim
  • Anne Ellersiek
  • Lukas Goltermann
  • Pauline Kiamba

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promotes multi‐stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) as a means of implementation while at the same time putting renewed focus on the need for national‐level ownership and implementation. Despite the fact that an ever growing body of literature on the merits and drawbacks of MSPs delineates several success conditions for partnerships, efforts to translate this knowledge into national‐level meta‐governance for MSPs remain marginal to date. This study outlines the benefits the literature alleges for such “meta‐governance” frameworks, before it uses a country‐level study with a series of stakeholder interviews to take a closer look at national‐level context conditions and lessons learned with regard to two water partnerships in Kenya. Our findings suggest that to date the existing meta‐governance for partnerships in Kenya is rather weak and fragmented. Yet respondents support the view that MSPs could benefit from such a framework, in particular regarding local ownership of MSPs and the potential to scale successful cases. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Marianne Beisheim & Anne Ellersiek & Lukas Goltermann & Pauline Kiamba, 2018. "Meta‐Governance of Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Actors' Perspectives from Kenya," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 38(3), pages 105-119, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:padxxx:v:38:y:2018:i:3:p:105-119
    DOI: 10.1002/pad.1810
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    1. David Horan, 2019. "A New Approach to Partnerships for SDG Transformations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-22, September.
    2. Xuesong Li & Yunlong Ding, 2020. "Holistic Governance for Sustainable Public Services: Reshaping Government–Enterprise Relationships in China’s Digital Government Context," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(5), pages 1-20, March.

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