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Private sector accountability

This report offers a framework for collaborative governance & accountability. The framework guides partnerships through four steps that enable partnership accountability and governance to drive superior performance:

• understand the governance requirements at each stage of the partnership design cycle
  
• design partnership governance systems in reverse alignment with key stages in the partnership design cycle
  
• hold partners accountable to an Accountability Compact
  
• plan for governance systems to secure accountability throughout partnership lifecycle.
  

Partnerships are hailed as the last remedy to the stresses that intense globalisation has put on the social fabric and sustaining ecosystems on which development depends. Unfortunately, for many partnerships, governance systems are not working effectively. As a result, the leaders find it increasingly difficult to deliver on their ambitious goals.

The paper finds that partnership governance systems should enable partnerships to manage dynamic and difficult interplay over questions of legitimacy, strategy, and performance. This interplay often leads partnerships into traps that leave them feeling increasingly stuck in place. Escaping this trap is not easy. As an implication, partnerships need their own unique accountability and governance systems. Institutions that invest resources in partnerships, policymakers, decision-makers, and opinion-formers should embrace the following inter-related and reinforcing recommendations:

• create incentives for good partnership governance
  
• ensure partnership governance systems possess the trust of core stakeholders
• build the knowledge and capacity of partnerships and their stakeholders to govern effectively.
  

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