Working together as peers across the Western Indian Ocean region and sectors to catalyze innovation and long-term impact
A multi-stakeholder approach is a structured, transparent and highly participatory collaboration between two or more stakeholder groups working together towards a common goal. It offers a significant opportunity to generate more innovative, appropriate, locally-owned and ultimately sustainable solutions, supporting transformative change.
Multi-stakeholder Preliminary Steering Team (PST)
Co designs the overall strategy, steers the alliance, monitors implementation and evaluates impact.
Multi-stakeholder Task Teams
Support the development of governance, stakeholder engagement and communication strategies.
Secretariat
Ensures smooth operation and coordination by facilitating connections between Our Blue Future’s network of partnerships and initiatives.
Multi-stakeholder Innovation Teams
Tackle critical, sector-specific challenges through concrete actions and projects for transitioning to a Sustainable Blue Economy.
Transformation Network
Includes an array of multi-stakeholder partnerships across the WIO region, learning from and inspiring each other in mobilizing resources to help realize a healthy, prosperous and sustainable region for all.
The Collective Leadership Institute (CLI) plays a key role in supporting Our Blue Future’s multi-stakeholder approach and strengthening the capacities of its members. It contributes expertise in bringing leadership concepts to enlivening the alliance by encouraging a high-quality and inclusive stakeholder engagement and dialogue process within Our Blue Future.
This includes assessing and leveraging Our Blue Future strengths in the Collective Leadership Compass to navigate a complex transformative change process through the four phases of the Dialogic Change Model, below. This helps maintain a focus on building Our Blue Future as a diverse multi-stakeholder partnership that is inclusive, participatory and results-oriented.
“Our Blue Future takes us back to SDG 17 and prompts us to think more creatively about the importance of high-quality collaboration and use of resources we have as partner organisations for the betterment of the WIO region.”
“I am calling on governments and other partners to join Our Blue Future and come together to create a collaborative space for action towards a Sustainable Blue Economy for the benefit of nature, people and business in the Western Indian Ocean.”
“For me, my participation in the start-up discussions and formation of the OBF is an excellent learning experience in the field of stakeholder engagement. In the early phases of our engagement the sheer number of acronyms and phrases to denote approaches, methodologies were – put it mildly – rather daunting.
However –the purpose and aspirations of OBF and, more critically – the approach itself i.e. the “Dialogic Change Model” are becoming clearer as engagements continue.”
“We can only transition to a Sustainable Blue Economy if the private sector and communities take a lead role as engines of the economy.”
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