Partnerships need to be smarter if they are to be effective in helping deliver the sustainable development goals. This, at least, is the takeaway from the Development Cooperation Report 2015 that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released yesterday.
According to the report, partnerships should ideally straddle the balance between “sovereignty and subsidiarity, inclusiveness and differentiation, [and] coherence and specialization.”
But while the plethora of partnerships today may point to progress on shining a light on the importance of collaboration in a constantly changing global development landscape, more partnerships don’t necessarily translate to greater or faster progress. In the report, Hildegard Lingnau, senior counselor at the Development Coordination Directorate of the OECD as well as the report’s conceptual and project leader, cited a U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs-commissioned study, which shows that several partnerships “should be streamlined [and build] on already existing and successful mechanisms and processes.”
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Anna Patricia Valerio
Anna Patricia Valerio is a former Manila-based development analyst who focused on writing innovative, in-the-know content for senior executives in the international development community. Before joining Devex, Patricia wrote and edited business, technology and health stories for BusinessWorld, a Manila-based business newspaper.
