The most entrenched development challenges rarely yield to any single organisation acting alone — they require many actors aligning around a shared agenda and acting in concert. This advanced programme equips senior practitioners to design and lead collective impact and multi-stakeholder initiatives that mobilise government, civil society, the private sector, and communities towards population-level change.
Designed for an international audience from officer to director level, the programme moves well beyond partnership basics to the discipline of collective impact: common agendas, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support. Participants learn to convene, broker, and steward complex coalitions and to navigate the power dynamics that determine whether they succeed.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Critically appraise collective impact and multi-stakeholder approaches
- Distinguish collective impact from conventional partnership
- Assess readiness and preconditions for collective impact
- Convene diverse stakeholders around a shared agenda
- Develop a common agenda and theory of change
- Establish shared measurement systems
- Design mutually reinforcing activities
- Build and resource a backbone function
- Steward continuous communication and trust
- Manage power asymmetries and competing interests
- Engage government and the private sector
- Centre community voice and leadership
- Govern multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Sustain and adapt coalitions over time
- Measure population-level and systems change
- Anticipate emerging trends in collective impact
Course Outline
- Module 1: Collective Impact & Multi-Stakeholder Approaches
- Module 2: Collective Impact vs Conventional Partnership
- Module 3: Readiness & Preconditions
- Module 4: Convening Diverse Stakeholders
- Module 5: Common Agenda & Theory of Change
- Module 6: Shared Measurement Systems
- Module 7: Mutually Reinforcing Activities
- Module 8: Building the Backbone Function
- Module 9: Continuous Communication & Trust
- Module 10: Managing Power & Competing Interests
- Module 11: Engaging Government & Private Sector
- Module 12: Centring Community Voice
- Module 13: Governing Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
- Module 14: Sustaining & Adapting Coalitions
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Collective Impact
Who Should Attend
This advanced programme is designed for international development directors, partnership and consortium leads, programme managers, and senior officers convening or contributing to multi-stakeholder initiatives across INGO, national NGO, donor, government, and private sector settings.
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