Experts of MSP design, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation, have distilled years of experience and participant feedback into a guide to help organisations to collaborate across different sectors and interest groups. This is an essential feature of the Landscape Partnerships element ('Element 1') of Integrated Landscape Management, the Lab's core landscape methodology.

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, including: 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.