Assessing impacts of Multi-Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) Support Platforms: Practice Brief

This practice note aims to summarize and reflect on the key issues that need to be addressed when designing impact assessment systems of MSP Platforms. Since the knowledge on impact and impact assessment of MSP platforms is not yet well developed, insights from three different strands of knowledge are commonly used: first, we know quite a lot about impact and impact assessment1 in general. This body of knowledge provides us with the tools and methods how to do impact assessments and how to understand impact. Second, we know increasingly more about Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships, about the process of collaboration and the conditions of success. Third, we have some insights from platforms in general, for instance innovation platforms in the agriculture sector (Guijt et al, 2019).