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This is the final report produced for the National Evaluation of Learning Partnerships. It provides a final assessment after three and a half years of development and looks to the future and the role of learning partnerships in lifelong learning. At the core of the evaluation process is a set of longitudinal case studies undertaken with 20 learning partnerships. The case studies involved discussions with the chairs, directors, managers and co-ordinators of learning partnerships, with key partners and stakeholders from all sectors and were complemented by analyses of the national learning targets, discussion with government offices and regional evaluators, assessment of partnership plans, evaluations and progress reports and performance data. The study found that progress had been slower in some areas than others and the failure to lock the program firmly into the national policy context encouraged perceptions of the program to be a failed and forgotten initiative. Some of the partnerships felt from the beginning that as voluntary organisations they were not able to deal with the more strategic roles they were initially given. The main barriers encountered were around clarity of purpose, capacity to deliver and stakeholder credibility. However, the vase majority of learning partnerships have been able to demonstrate aspects of added value by increasing the level and amount of working and information sharing across partner organisations and sectors.