Good intentions and high ambitions are no guarantee for success
Multi-stakeholder partnerships in development cooperation need to square the circle: How tobe successful and effective in combining expertise and professionalism of differentorganizations into one program.
TeamUp Uganda is such a multi-stakeholder partnership. Starting in 2019 in the areas ofagriculture, water, and health it combines the expertise of three implementing organisations inUganda: Action 4 Health Uganda, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung, and Whave Solutions.
By the end of the pilot phase in 2022 the group had collected a bucket full of experience about how to setup and implement a multi-stakeholder partnership. To share learnings and reflectwith experts from other multistakeholder initiatives, a panel discussion has been organized andrecorded in April 2023 together with the German funding partners Federal Ministry forEconomic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW), Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung and Siemens Stiftung. The aim: to discuss, how collaboration indevelopment cooperation can be successful. On stage: three experts from the areas ofimplementation, academic research, and consultancy.
