Enabling people to successfully manage cross-sector cooperation
The Collective Leadership Institute has more than 5 years of experience in process support and capacity building with its capacity building programs, process support, leadership development and other collaboration projects.
It aims to support people in building competence for sustainability in cross-sector collaboration, Stakeholder Dialogues, sustainable business practices, personal leadership and conflict transformation.
Learn more about our work and read selected examples of our work:
Working with Stakeholder Dialogues - Tailor-made training with the environmental program in the Philippines
The Collective Leadership Institute facilitated in 2011 a tailor-made workshop for the environmental sector program (EnRD) of GIZ Philippines. The EnRD Programme works with three major partners from the Philippines, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Agrarian Reform and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Their cooperation targets conservation issues and the sustainable use of the countries resources and includes sectors such as land use, agriculture, forestry, fishery and aquaculture. The program requested the tailor-made workshop on “Working with Stakeholder Dialogues” in the context of their engagement to support the passage of the National Land Use Act, a pending law set to regulate the use of natural resources which has been debated, with different versions and revisions filed to the Philippine congress, for almost 20 years now. For this purpose, the EnRD program cooperates closely with a coalition of non-governmental organizations that joined forces for a campaign on agrarian reform and rural development (ANGCOC). The cooperation particularly aims at reviving a campaign driven by the civil society sector pushing for the passage of the land use act under consideration of aspects such as climate change, risk management and land rights of indigenous people.
Partners from GIZ, NGOs, people organizations and the public sector working together on the promotion of the land use bill partook in the tailor-made training. Next to instruments for result-oriented stakeholder cooperation and exercises for the joint reflection on dialogic processes, the course included a session for joint identification of core elements of a final land use bill as well as action planning for further steps to be taken by the campaign members and its collaboration partners to forward the passage of the law.
Supporting a Multi-stakeholder initiative in the African Cashew sector
Since 2010 the Collective Leadership Institute supports the African Cashew initiative (ACi) in process and management. This project, cooperation between the GIZ and the Bill Gates Foundation, is helping to consolidate a common stakeholder initiative. The African Cashew initiative (ACi) is a cooperation between civil organizations and private business partners aiming to improve the competitiveness of the Cashew industry in five African countries by enhancing market access for the individual actors along the value chain in order to make them more competitive on the global market.
www.aci.africancashewalliance.com
Creating dynamic result-orientation in policy development
Well-applied process designs for multi-stakeholder dialogues increase the ownership and the likelihood of implementation of the results and decisions taken. Good process architecture combines content-based and result-oriented cross-sector cooperation and tailor-made capacity building for the implementation of Stakeholder Dialogues. The approach of the CLI has proven of value in Cambodia in the development of the "land policy".
Future change agents for sustainability in the corporate world
The responsibility of companies is a central factor for shaping a socially responsible and environmentally friendly globalization. Whether social sponsoring, employee engagement, CSR or Responsible Supply Chain Management: a proactive engagement for sustainability needs qualified personnel and value-oriented leadership. Today’s university students are tomorrow’s leaders. The CLI is the initiator of an innovative qualification program. The program received the UN award.
www.youngleadersforsustainability.de
Growing capacity for start-up entrepreneurial partnerships
Launched in 2004, the SEED Awards biannually recognize and reward five partnership-based initiatives that combine innovation and entrepreneurship in delivering effective social development and environmentally sustainable programs in their countries. The partnerships also serve as models to inspire new local entrepreneurs, communities, companies and others to join forces in advancing sustainability. The Collective Leadership Institute implemented the 'SEED Support Channel' from 2007 to 2009 on behalf of the SEED Initiative.
www.seedinit.org
Committing a value chain to responsible business
The CLI assisted the Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C), through strategic and process support in the development of an international standard development in the coffee sector in a multi-stakeholder approach, involving all coffee producing countries, the coffee industry and civil society organizations.
Its strategy included the creation of a membership organization and thus strengthened the partnership thinking in the value chain. The Common Code for the Coffee Community is currently the most innovative pilot in a multi-stakeholder-approach to voluntary standard development and implementation.
www.sustainable-coffee.net
Building capacity for implementation
The CLI conducts capacity building programs for cross-sector cooperation amongst others in Germany, Thailand, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa. This offers a chance to regional participants to join the program and learn in exchange with their colleagues from the region. The programs are directed at executives and project managers, who host, initiate and facilitate stakeholder engagement processes. Participants have the possibility to test the concepts and instruments during the seminar and learn from their own practical cases.
Unleashing the potential of cross-sector cooperation for voluntary standards
The CLI co-authored a complex thematic evaluation resulting in strategy formulation for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The process-based evaluation provides a sounded assessment about the possibilities of voluntary social and ecological standards which contribute to “Responsible Supply Chain Management” thus enhancing sustainable development and poverty alleviation in transforming and developing countries.
