The International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) currently
provides Seed’s Research and Learning Channel,
working closely with the Seed Initiative Secretariat
and Seed Partners.
Main themes of Seed’s 2007/8 Research Agenda include:
Deepening earlier research – Seed’s 2006
Partnerships Report included
- strengthening local drive and ownership of partnerships;
- partnerships’ financing and business models;
- capacity building for organisational and management
skills; and
- institutional obstacles and solutions |
Replication, adaptation and scaling up – based
on studies of the 2007 Award Winners and multi-stakeholder
partnerships more generally, develop indicators and
strategies for assessing partnerships’ replicability
and adaptability
Evaluation – based on existing work, developing
a taxonomy of indicators to better measure the impact
of sustainable development partnerships
Review the Seed Initiative’s programme of activities
– to inform the development of our programmes
for 2008-2010.
Seed will publish a Partnerships Report covering these
areas in May 2008 at the UN Commission on Sustainable
Development, as well as detailed case studies of the
2007 Winners and analyses of all Seed applicants.
Results will be fed back to policy makers, partnership
practitioners, and into the seed initiative.
Seed Research Agenda 2005/6
For Seed’s first cycle of operation, the Global
Public Policy Institute (GPPI) delivered Seed’s
Research and Learning channel. The GPPI's research findings
include the 2006
Partnerships Report, as well as 2 papers:
The first paper (eight pages) provides an analysis of
the partnerships applying to the Seed Initiative, and
demonstrates the wide variety of locally-driven entrepreneurial
partnerships with the potential to contribute to sustainable
development.
Entrepreneurial
Partnerships for sustainable development: A first look
at the submissions to the Seed Awards 2005
The second paper (24 pages) is a discussion paper. It
incorporates the information from the shorter paper
but includes further interpretation and commentary to
stimulate debate on the role and potential of locally-driven
partnerships for sustainable development. It also begins
to frame the future Seed Research and Learning agenda.
Please note, the views contained therein are those of
the author and do not necessarily represent the views
of the Seed Initiative, its partners or supporters.
Waltz, Jazz, or Samba?: The Contribution of Locally-Driven
Partnerships to Sustainable Development
