Lateral stakeholder alignment in the Global Water Partnership

This research evaluates stakeholder alignment in a global multi-stakeholder organization called the Global Water Partnership (GWP). The GWP represents a new breed of organization, a Global Multi-Stakeholder Network Organization (GMSNO), that has emerged in greater numbers in the last fifteen years as a means of addressing complex global social and environmental issues. This master's thesis adds to the body of literature on evaluation and assessment of these new global multi-stakeholder organizations by applying the Lateral Alignment Framework to study three different levels of stakeholder alignment in the GWP: Behavioral, Functional/Structural, and Systems/Culture/Values, and the GWP's effectiveness in achieving its mission and goals. The thesis has implications for GMSNOs in general both terms of the content of the findings and the method of analysis using the Lateral Alignment Framework. A main finding from this research is the difference between the relatively high frequency and quality of interactions within GWP regions compared to the low scores on interactions across global regions.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Technology and Policy Program.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Parrot, Katherine W

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld.

• Technology and Policy Program.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40374

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/40374