Collaborative Development

One of your colleagues who attended Nestle's conference on Creating-Shared Value last week would like to share some thoughts with those of you who were interested, but did not manage to attend. Please read Ankit's notes that are now posted to Moodle. The conference seems to have proposed a new notion of "collaborative development", based on strong partnerships between the government, the private sector and the non-profit sector.

The shape and form of these partnerships should be the matter of further experimentation. We still know very little about what partnerships (if any) work, under what circumstances and for how long... Here is a vivid example from Haiti on how difficult it is to engender these relationships from scratch.