Local Partnerships for Better Governance [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Giguère, Sylvain.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2001.
To better respond to a new set of concerns of the population and promote sustainable development, governments today actively seek a broad partnership with civil society and the private sector. Yet, it is at local and regional levels, closer to the problems and the individuals, that partnerships are most often formed. Partnerships are being established throughout OECD countries to tackle issues of economic development, employment, social cohesion and the quality of life. What all partnerships share is a common desire to improve governance -- how society collectively solves its problems and meets its needs. Through partnerships, civil society and its NGOs, enterprises and government at different levels work together to design area-based strategies, adapt policies to local conditions and take initiatives consistent with shared priorities. An ambitious mission, which raises the challenge of harmonising public accountability and participatory democracy. Local Partnerships for Better Governance presents the lessons learnt from the most recent experiences in seven countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the United States. This book proposes a strategy that governments can implement to improve governance through partnerships. Applying this strategy will enforce local capacities in a globalising economy, and contribute to reconcile economic competitiveness, social cohesion and environmental progress.
""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Part I.  Lessons from the Partnership Experience""; ""Introduction""; ""First experiments""; ""Partnerships mainstreamed""; ""A new area-based management framework""; ""The impact of decentralisation""; ""Partnerships: a black box?""; ""The local governance agenda""; ""Methodology of the study""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 1.  Governance Contexts and Management Frameworks""; ""Why the governance context matters""; ""The context in the countries surveyed""; ""Box 1.  Programmazione negoziata, or Planning in Partnership""
""The geographical scale of partnerships""""Management frameworks""; ""Administrative structure""; ""The members""; ""Resources""; ""Table 1.  Operating costs for partnerships and tripartite organisations""; ""Co-ordination and evaluation""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 2.  Fostering Co-operation""; ""Cohesion within sectors""; ""Box 2.  Social capital""; ""An interface between institutions""; ""Box 3.  A partnership on both decision-making and delivery: the Workforce Investment Act...""; ""New challenges in the labour market""
""Box 4.  Increasing the efficiency of the labour market in Limburg (Belgium)""""Unbalanced co-operation""; ""Domination by the municipality""; ""Domination by public service""; ""Informal co-operation""; ""Box 5.  Informal co-operation: the Danish model""; ""Towards an integrated approach""; ""The cross-sector dimension""; ""Inclusiveness""; ""Representing the civil society""; ""Chapter 3.  Designing a Strategy""; ""Social development""; ""Box 6.  Strategies for social development in Ireland""; ""Linking up with economic development?""; ""Economic development""
""Two opposite approaches: Flanders and Sicily""""Consistency of objectives with the municipal base""; ""Strengthening municipal agreements""; ""Towards bottom-up policies""; ""Box 7.  Spatial consistency of objectives: the Tyrol example""; ""Spatial consistency and accountability""; ""Labour market strategies""; ""Integrating social development""; ""Box 8.  The reform of the STCs in Flanders""; ""Integrating economic development""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 4.  Implementing the Strategy""; ""Designing and running activities""; ""Allocating the funds""
""Box 9.  Implementing the local strategy in Finland""""Distribution of responsibilities""; ""Monitoring and evaluation""; ""Defining the targets""; ""The challenges facing the WIBs""; ""Setting up new frameworks for the involvement of partnerships""; ""Box 10.  The Community Employment/Job Initiative Framework Agreement in Ireland""; ""Delivering services""; ""Partnership or separated structures?""; ""Diversification leading to proliferation""; ""A mixed result for governance""; ""Reforming policy""; ""Promoting and assisting the use of measures""
""The challenging development of the non-profit sector""
Published in French as: Des partenariats locaux pour une meilleure gouvernance.
"Sylvain Giguère of the OECD Secretariat led this study and prepared this publication"--Page 3.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-382).
To better respond to a new set of concerns of the population and promote sustainable development, governments today actively seek a broad partnership with civil society and the private sector. Yet, it is at local and regional levels, closer to the problems and the individuals, that partnerships are most often formed. Partnerships are being established throughout OECD countries to tackle issues of economic development, employment, social cohesion and the quality of life. What all partnerships share is a common desire to improve governance -- how society collectively solves its problems and meets its needs. Through partnerships, civil society and its NGOs, enterprises and government at different levels work together to design area-based strategies, adapt policies to local conditions and take initiatives consistent with shared priorities. An ambitious mission, which raises the challenge of harmonising public accountability and participatory democracy. Local Partnerships for Better Governance presents the lessons learnt from the most recent experiences in seven countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the United States. This book proposes a strategy that governments can implement to improve governance through partnerships. Applying this strategy will enforce local capacities in a globalising economy, and contribute to reconcile economic competitiveness, social cohesion and environmental progress.
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