Build Cross-Sector Partnership

1.5 Credits · Level: Graduate

Building Cross-Sector Partnerships for Social Innovation and Impact Cross-sector partnerships have the power to solve big problems and drive transformational change. Governments, companies, civil society, philanthropists, and innovators are increasingly exploring and testing new ways to work together to address global development needs. The scale, complexity, and interconnectedness of our world’s greatest challenges require a collaborative, cross-sector response to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is no single blueprint to design and operationalize a successful cross-sector partnership, there is an art and science to building partnerships that work. This course will equip students with a foundational understanding of proven and novel cross-sector partnership models designed to solve global development challenges, examine real world cases of partnerships addressing local-to-global social and environmental issues and provide a roadmap to conceptualize, build and operationalize cross-sector partnerships for social impact.