In recent years multistakeholder partnerships MSPs have become popular for tackling the complex challenges of sustainable development. This guide provides a practical framework for the design and facilitation of these collaborative processes that work across the boundaries of business government civil society and science. The guide links the underlying rationale for multistakeholder partnerships with a clear four phase process model a set of seven core principles key ideas for facilitation and 60 participatory tools for analysis planning and decision making. The guide has been written for those directly involved in MSPs as a stakeholder leader facilitator or funder to provide both the conceptual foundations and practical tools that underpin successful partnerships. Whats inside draws on the direct experience of staff from the Centre of Development Innovation CDI at Wageningen University ampamp Research Centre in supporting MSP processes in many countries around the world. The guide also compiles the ideas and materials behind CDIs annual three week international course on facilitating MSPs and social learning. This work has been inspired by the motivation and passion that comes when people dare to walk in each others shoes to find new paths toward shared ambitions for the future.