ICT4D Collective published a report on the key lessons of ICT4D partnerships for poverty reduction as part of DFIDs new series of systematic reviews. The main aim of this report is to summarise the evidence available on the effects of ICT4D partnerships on poverty reduction.

The report reaches five specific conclusions about the success factors that are important in implementing ICT4D partnerships:

• Success is increased when detailed attention is paid to the local context and the involvement of the local community in partnership implementation.
• It is important for such partnerships to have clear and agreed intended development outcomes, even where constituent partners may themselves have different reasons for being involved in the partnership.
• Sustainability and scalability of the intended development intervention need to be built into partnership design at the very beginning.
• Successful partnerships are built on trust, honesty, openness, mutual understanding and respect.
• A supportive wider ICT environment needs to be in place, both in terms ofpolicy and infrastructure, if such partnerships are to flourish and deliver effective development outcomes.

The full report is available here.