The PGA Framework: promoting best practice in the management of partnerships for sustainable development

The PGA Framework is an innovative AccountAbility initiative aimed at improving partnership performance. The PGA Framework helps partnership brokers, managers, funders, and impacted stakeholders to better design and implement, and assess the quality of partnership governance and accountability.

Partnerships are increasingly used to deliver on public policy objectives and are faced with increasing pressures to find appropriate mechanisms for their decision-making and accountability processes and to respond to stakeholders' concerns in a legitimate way. The extraordinary potential of partnerships to deliver on their goals might not be realised if partnerships are not developed and managed credibly and effectively.

As partnerships evolve, the critical task is often to balance the need to:

• Create formal structures of governance that will improve internal coordination and external legitimacy, while;
• Nurturing and supporting the healthy informal processes that bring flexibility and innovation.

The PGA Framework has been developed to enable partnerships to develop both aspects of good governance and accountability practice.

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