Collaboration

Five steps to help ensure your collaboration isn’t in vain.

“The world needs local systems solutions to solve global problems. Therefore, all civil society actors must be good multi-stakeholder coalition builders on the ground.”

Collaborative action has the potential to amplify impact, particularly in times of crisis. Here are five lessons from collaboratives that are responding to COVID-19.

Social sector players recognise the power of collective action, but few are able to practice it. Here's what they need to do.

Iqbal Dhaliwal, Global Executive Director of J-PAL shares important lessons he has learned over years of working with governments.

We often have a binary view of working with the government—focusing either on accountability or reform. There is a third method that leverages government resources as a public good.

Chemical contamination of drinking water is a significant health concern in India, one we haven’t realised the magnitude of. Practitioners across sectors must come together to tackle this issue.

Given the size and complexity of the problems the social sector is trying to solve, the need for collaboration is obvious. Why then, are people not collaborating?

As we mark World Toilet Day this November, we need to think about how we manage human faecal waste. This is particularly important in India—a country with the fastest growing urban population in the world.

It has long been acknowledged that collaboration is invaluable to the social sector. But what is much less clear is how to actually do this. Here are five strategies that enable actors with diverse interests to come together and work effectively.