Ken Caplan Email & Phone Number

Ken is currently Director of Partnerships in Practice – a UK-based consultancy that focuses on ensuring that global to local partnership approaches are fit-for-purpose. Partnerships in Practice builds on the work of the World Bank-DFID-supported global multistakeholder initiative that Ken directed called Building Partnerships for Development (BPD). BPD sought to strengthen institutional arrangements that deliver water and sanitation and other public services in poor communities. Much of this work has been around framing stakeholder incentives and understanding risks and how related aspects of political economy (like land tenure, perceptions of public accountability and stakeholder engagement, national and stakeholder culture, etc.) influence both the stewardship of natural resources and the delivery of public services. Ken has worked with dozens of global and national public/private/civil society/donor partnerships, and local service provider/citizen partnerships. He has worked with a diverse range of projects including public toilet provision in Ghana, corporate/NGO partnerships for hygiene promotion, political economy analysis of partnerships between state and non-state actors to enhance democratic governance in Cambodia, innovation funds to achieve more crop per drop agricultural production, and global multi-stakeholder initiatives aimed at improving accountability.

Listed skills include Sustainable Development, International Development, Capacity Building, Water, and 36 others.