Titled “Improving the Governance of Tenure in Policy and Practice: A Conceptual Basis to Analyse Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Multi-Stakeholder Transformative Governance Illustrated with an Example from South Africa”, the contribution was recently published in the peer-reviewed academic journal “Sustainability” together with fellow FAO Louisa Jansen (lead-author).
Why is this article relevant?
- The United Nations system strongly advocates to work through multi-stakeholder partnerships, platforms and processes (MSPs) to address complex and multi-dimensional issues including governance of tenure, natural resources management, climate change, biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, land degradation neutrality, and ultimately to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The article explores opportunities, risks and good practices to work through MSPs.
2. The article adopts a “business-as-unusual” approach to MSPs through:
- providing a conceptual basis to rigorously analyse multi-stakeholder partnerships, processes and platforms and
- establishing the direct and missing link between MSPs to polycentric, multi-stakeholder governance arrangements critical to achieve more transformative and sustainable impacts at scale for, and beyond, tenure governance.
3. The article is based on qualitative research and data collected from events across Africa and Asia to implement the ‘Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security’ (VGGT) and applied to the ongoing South African National Multi-Stakeholder Platform process.
Patrick P. Kalas 