Multi-stakeholder Partnerships, Human Rights Accountability and Education
The project seeks to explore the human rights accountability implications of mobilizing private actors in the post-2015 development era by inspecting multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) in education.
Priate actors are increasingly infused into global policy making and implementation as a proposed panacea to governance gaps through hybrid public-private engagements. In this vein, being formalized and supported under the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), MSPs have now become ubiquitous in the governance of sustainable development.
While MSPs manage substantial financial resources and operate in ways that affect the lives of a great number of people, they lack a clear legal status, mandate and duties under international law, giving rise to accountability challenges. In domains that are both public goods and human rights, such as education, the involvement of private actors has previously paved the way for the commercialization and corporate capture of agendas, exacerbating accountability challenges. This research project attempts to overcome the paucity of critical legal reflection by evaluating and addressing the human rights accountability challenges posed by the policy-driven mobilization of private actors in MSPs in achieving public objectives such as the delivery of quality education.
Researcher: Dr. Gamze Erdem Türkelli