The Missing Ingredient for Successful Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: Cooperative Capacity

Multi-stakeholder partnerships are an essential vehicle for solving complex societal problems. Agreements governing these often lack equitable partner agency in framing and enforcing multi-stakeholder agreements. This challenges the cooperation needed of to be effective. theoretical paper introduces a new original model measure develop cooperative capacity so that future agreements involving partnership framed share governance equitably among all partners hence, increase performance effectiveness. The provides methodology through key indicators identify state predicts effectiveness achieving common goals. traces genesis model, presents comprehensive explanation cases model’s application.