“As a companion piece to the report ‘Catalyzing Transformational Partnerships between the United Nations and Business,’ this guide serves as a step-by-step roadmap for maximizing the transformative potential of your partnership. As transformational partnerships cannot exist without a strong foundation in place from the outset, this guide provides a roadmap for building effective partnerships, as well as a method to diagnose existing ones. These recommendations have been derived from insights distilled from existing UN-Business partnerships.

A transformational partnership:

• Addresses a systemic issue by enforcing existing rules or instituting new rules; correcting market failures; or shifting behavioral norms
• Involves all stakeholders who play a necessary role
• Leverages the core competencies of all partners
• Has built-in capacity to reach scale and leave a lasting impact”