multi-stakeholder working: lessons from the front line
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This presentation was made at the first meeting of the MeTA International Advisory Group.TRANSCRIPT
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Multi-stakeholder Working:Lessons from the Frontline
Richard Calland
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Conceptual Understanding of MSIs Mode of Governance: ie a decision-making forum
about the rules of the game for a particular issue MSIs comprise a process-orientated, joint approach
to benchmarking, rule-making and implementation
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Rules/Lores of the (MSI) Game
True joint decision-making power of the participating actors may not be certain…but:
Deeper legitimacy for the role of non-state actors at the negotiation table
Therefore, MSIs are a step beyond “mere” consultation: NGO stakeholders are active role-players - they are at the table and in the game
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MSI Typology*
Purpose Drivers & Motive Status & Composition Arena of Intervention
*This Typology is drawn from the work of
Lucy Koechlin of the Basel Institute of
Governance – with whom I am
collaborating on a book chapter on MSIs.
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Purpose
Dialogue/forum
Institution-building
Rule-Setting
Rule Implementation
Rule Monitoring
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Purpose/Area of Intervention
Dialogue/ Forum
Institution-Building
Rule-setting Rule-implementation
Rule-monitoring
Peace-agreements COIEPA (Angola)
National Peace Committees (S.A.)
Tax-Reform Guatemala
Sustainable development International Alert (Azerbaijan)
EITI, Global Reporting Initiative
EITI
Conflict financing EITI, Kimberley Process
Kimberley Process
Human Rights Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
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Consensus-Finding Potential of MSIs
Compare: Eye on EITI October 2006 Report: Civil Society (PWYP/Revenue Watch) International Advisory Group of the EITI: Final Report, September 2006
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…large degree of consensus:
1. Real Implementation by Governments
2. Validation by Companies (including disaggregation)
3. Need to deepen the multi-stakeholder approach
4. Deepen the sub-national system
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Main Differences/Concerns:
1. Incentives 2. Cheating – ‘bogus’ representation by corporations
and especially host governments3. Particular stakeholders being marginalised4. Self-selection of CSO participants5. Some evidence of harassment 6. Co-option…and:7. Funding/resources8. Uneven information base
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It’s all about TRUST…
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And POWER!
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…OR GOOD, CONSISTENT PROCESS & CLARITY ABOUT OBJECTIVES AND THE RULES OF THE GAME?
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Other Issues/Challenges
Differences in language and culture (individual and institutional)
Each set of stakeholders has to learn a new lexicon in relation to the other
And, to ignore the “parrot on the shoulder” So as to get past previous, often deeply ingrained,
prejudices…
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THE CHALLENGE OF VALIDATION Is this just a question of M & E? Or is there a process element? Or, if transparency is the means to the end, is it also about how to measure
the ends as much as the means?