Stage 1: Scoping and Building of the Partnering Lifecycle typically involves:

  • mapping the landscape of relevant stakeholders and initiatives (see stakeholder mapping),
  • engaging key stakeholders to together build a full understanding of the issue (including of the system for system transformational partnerships),
  • identifying those stakeholders likely to be partners, and then
  • undertaking the process of engagement and negotiation to collectively develop a value-creating partnership, set out in the Partnership Formation Journey.

Source: The SDG Partnership Guidebook (page 39). Links to other Societal architecture model elements and some modifications by the editor so as to better illustrate the relevance of the concept in public policy cycles at levels international, federal and national.