A Cabinet-mandated board that has collective responsibility for performance on local priorities and usually reports to a lead minister.
The basics
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When to use this tool
As with collective impact network but:
- Cabinet mandate required to sustain collaboration due to difficult trade-offs between priorities
- Local need differs significantly from national priorities
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How to agree goals/outcomes
- Overall remit set nationally
- Location boundaries agreed nationally
- Local priorities determined by board
- Small number of discrete results with agreed measures
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Governance model required
- CEs collectively agree to consistent delegations (test and learn)
- Cabinet-mandated board consisting of regional leaders from participating agencies/organisations
- May include organisations outside the Public Service
- May use an independent chair, but ideally self-organising
- Consensus agreement to interorganisational work programme
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Ministerial relationships required
- Lead minister for the board mandated by Cabinet
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Incentives required
- Collective responsibility for improving results
- Periodic reporting to local community
- Engagement with local community
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How to manage the funding
- National level agreement to pool funding for local priorities (each agency to make contribution from baseline)
- Separate appropriation for local priorities
- Collective agreement to spend pooled funding