This study presents a comparative analysis of five experiences of working with multistakeholder platforms based in Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Guinea, Lao PDR and Malawi. These case studies were prepared by four international land governance programmes (CTFD, ILC, MRL, Land for Life) to review the political contexts, structure, governance and operational models of the platforms. It presents platform contributions to changes in policy and practice and provides key learnings that could be applied to land governance programming across multiple contexts. This study contributes to a broader capitalisation of experience that draws lessons learned from improving land governance through multistakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
The Capitalisation of Experience (Capex) draws lessons learned from over 10 years of MRLG policy and practice engagement in the Mekong region. The project has worked through multistakeholder approaches, supporting alliances of reform actors and using evidence-based analyses to inform policymaking and adapting to the political economy at national and regional levels. This Capex includes thematic analyses and cases studies from MRLG in Cambodia and Laos and from similar programmes by ILC, Land for Life from WHH and CTFD that have supported multistakeholder platforms for policy dialogue in Malawi, Burkina Faso and Guinea. These experiences are documented in this Capex Series that includes a thematic report, briefs, case studies and a comparative analysis aimed at a large audience interested in understanding the conditions of success for similar policy-oriented programmes to achieve positive impacts in other geographical contexts.