This guide is for leaders and organisations interested in establishing a GSG Impact National Partner. It takes you through the key stages, decisions, and actions required to move from an initial coalition of interested stakeholders to a fully accredited, credible, representative, and sustainable National Partner. The guide forms part of the National Partner Handbook, a suite of resources supporting Taskforces (temporary coalitions working towards National Partner accreditation) and National Partners with tools, frameworks and guidance for every stage of their development.

Building an impact economy means making progress across many interconnected parts of the system at once, and coordination around shared priorities. It requires many actors moving together, each reinforcing the others’ progress. This is the shared goal the GSG Impact Partnership is working towards, with each country travelling from its own starting point, to a destination shaped by its own institutions, markets, and priorities.

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National Partners are fully locally led and operated. As trusted, crosssector platforms, they bring together leaders from government, business, finance, philanthropy, academia, and civil society to build consensus, align priorities, coordinate action, and create the conditions for local solutions to emerge

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By strengthening how a country’s actors work together, National Partners help create the conditions that enable progress on every front of the transition: connecting policy with practice, mobilising stakeholders around shared priorities, accelerating learning, and turning fragmented initiatives into collective action.

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Becoming a National Partner means more than joining a network. It means joining GSG Impact’s mission to build impact economies and shaping that global effort. Each National Partner helps define the GSG Impact Partnership, bringing their own context, priorities, and leadership to a shared undertaking that no single country or actor could advance alone. In return, National Partners gain benefits and support from the rest of the Partnership.