Ensuring equal voice at a tilted table? An explorative study among partnership conveners about their role and practices in addressing power dynamics

In this paper, we address this scholarly call by exploring how conveners deal with power imbalances in the CSP they govern.

Power, here defined as “the relational capacity that enables certain actors to asymmetrically influence the decisions of other actors in ways that favor the empowered actors’ will, interests, and values” (Castells, 2016, p. 2), can influence CSPs in every stage: affecting who is invited to participate, how the implementation unfolds and who benefits most from the realized outcomes of the collaboration (Gray et al., 2022).