Critical Elements on Accountability Processes within Multi-stakeholders Platforms for Global Governance of Food Security

The global governance of food security and nutrition (FNS) is characterized by a paradigm shift; from intergovernmental governance led by Member States toward multi-stakeholder arrangements (The Committee on world Food Security, the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture or the New Alliance for FNS). They intend to experiment and organize arrangements to produce knowledge and better deliver the expected outputs. Concretely they are producing transformation but the stakeholders have different objectives on the types of changes expected and the impact of these platforms is therefore at the heart of controversies. Based on the analysis of accountability processes in global governance regimes, this contribution analyses how monitoring frameworks could account for the diversity of “theories of change” within a multi-stakeholders platform and organize explicit discussions of long term transformation pathways. This contribution identifies the conditions for ensuring monitoring, transparency and mutual accountability to ensure the relevance and legitimacy of such initiatives.