“Our overarching hypothesis is that MSPs, appropriately and effectively designed and implemented in the frame of adaptive learning, have the potential to contribute to transformative change in landscape governance and management.”
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases
JOURNAL ARTICLE | 2022
Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are the subject of increasing attention and investment in the domain of collaborative natural resource governance, yet evidence-based guidance remains slim on policy and investment priorities to leverage the MSP approach. We draw on a comparative analysis of eight landscape-level MSPs that span seven countries and represent a diversity of resource systems including forests, rangelands, and multiuse agricultural landscapes. Applying an adapted social-ecological systems framework, our synthesis distills lessons addressing: (1) how to design an MSP in relation to the governance context; (2) how to implement inclusive processes that address power inequities; and (3) how to support adaptive learning to expand the MSP’s influence over time.