Partnerships for Sustainability: Examining the Evidence, A Symposium
The National Academy of Sciences
2100 C Street NW, Lecture Room
Washington, DC
June 18-19, 2008
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The U.S. National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability will convene a symposium to examine the multi-stakeholder partnership record in addressing issues associated with sustainability. The symposium will focus on the challenges that the partnerships have addressed, including: involvement of several sectors, action at varying scales, from local to global, a combination of public and private financing, and a complex set of science questions.
The experience of eleven partnerships will help to shape the analysis and discussion. In-depth case studies of these partnerships will be conducted by experts with prior experience in analyzing partnerships involving science and technology issues. They will use a common framework and set of questions to describe and analyze each of the partnerships. A steering group of Roundtable members will organize the symposium program based on its review of preliminary drafts of the review papers, in order to encourage discussion among all participants of issues that cross-cut the review papers.
The following partnerships will be examined as case studies:
Agua Para Todos (Bolivia)
Common Code for the Coffee Community (Africa/Asia/ L. America)
East Coast Fever Vaccine Development (East/Central Africa)
Farm to Fork Initiative (U.S.)
Global Water Challenge (Africa/Central America/Asia)
Green Chemistry Institute (U.S.)
Green Power Market Development Group (U.S./Europe)
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (Tanzania)
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (Worldwide)
Sustainable Forest Products Global Alliance (Africa/Asia/ L. America)
Sustainable Silicon Valley (California)
The symposium will be open to the public and will include members of the Roundtable, authors of the review papers, representatives from the featured partnerships, and other invited guests. Preliminary drafts of the review papers will be made available to all participants prior to the symposium.
The symposium will advance the dialogue on partnership experiences with a view to informing future efforts. It is anticipated that the results of the symposium will help leaders in government, private sector, foundations/NGOs, and universities, both in the United States and internationally, as they develop and participate in new partnerships for sustainability. Recognizing the trend toward partnering, and the anecdotal evidence that it can aid in a transition to sustainability, this event and publication will provide another important tool in helping would-be practitioners navigate the when, where, why, and how to of partnering.
