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Session 1: An Overview of Collaborative Governance Framework
Collaborative governance occurs across sectors and refers to the “linking or sharing of information, resources, activities, and capabilities by organizations in two or more sectors to achieve jointly an outcome that could not be achieved by organizations in one sector separately” (Bryson et al., 2006). Several frameworks set out the basic factors that influence the formation and functioning of a collaborative governance regime (CGR).
Broadly speaking, the CGR framework (Emerson et al., 2011) regards collaboration as a system ingrained within and interacting with a larger institutional environment. This framework holds that the determinants of the collaborative governance regime are found in the external context, including resource conditions, policy and legal frameworks, as well as politics and power conditions. It also recognises drivers as separate from the system context, which includes leadership, consequential incentives, recognised interdependence and uncertainty. Internal collaborative dynamics of principled engagement, which leads to shared motivation and results in the capacity for joint action are also emphasised by the framework. These collaborative dynamics create actions that can have broader impacts, further influencing collaborative dynamics and the external system or context (Bryson et al., 2015). Process models of collaborative governance have described the collaboration as developing in cyclical, rather than linear, stages.
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Bryson, J. M., Crosby, B. C., & Stone, M. M. (2006). The design and implementation of Cross‐Sector collaborations: Propositions from the literature. Public administration review, 66, 44-55.
Bryson, J. M., Crosby, B. C., & Stone, M. M. (2015). Designing and implementing cross‐sector collaborations: Needed and challenging. Public administration review, 75(5), 647-663.
Emerson, K., Nabatchi, T., & Balogh, S. (2011). An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance.(June 2009), 1–29. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. https://doi. org/10.1093/jopart/mur011.