Tips: Building your governance capability for development
Governance capabilities for development include:
- a stable, accountable leadership
- broadly representative and fair representative structures
- strong culture-based rules of governance
- capable management and staff support
- clear lines of authority and responsibility
- consistent and fair decision making
- fair and reliable dispute resolution processes
- strategic business planning and risk management
- effective communication and information systems
- networks with public or private sector partners to engage with the wider economy;
- working infrastructure in place
- education and financial literacy
- access to relevant training and mentoring opportunities
- legitimacy and credibility with your members.