Oakland Promise was launched in a landscape that was
already engaging in
innovative collective impact
efforts, particularly ones focused on providing equity of opportunity for all children.
A less formal approach that focuses on coordinating policies across borders,
already under way as the result of some modest progress at the global climate talks, as well as
innovative efforts to coordinate technology promotion such as the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) process, may be the best that is possible in the near future.