Collaborative Governance

Recent years have seen an extraordinary growth in the number, size, and scope of multi-sector partnerships as vehicles to deliver and organise development, from global finance in health, to service delivery in water and sanitation, to public infrastructure projects or global regulation for sustainable forestry.

With this trend effective governance and the manner in which partnerships can be held to account is equally becoming a mainstream issue. Civil society faces the major task of developing a groundswell of accountability through enhancing its capabilities in advocacy, analysis and action while at the same time ensuring that their own accountability systems allow the poor inroads into such projects.

The Collaborative Governance Observatory

AccountAbility, with the support of the Ford Foundation, invites you to explore a new platform for partnerships. The Collaborative Governance Observatory (CGO) aims to empower civil society with the tools, capacity, knowledge, international networking opportunities, the shared experience and the public domain to live up to the task of improving the oversight of partnerships.

CGO also provides partnerships with the opportunity for increased transparency and credibility. It provides partnerships with the space to disclose partnership information such as contracts, revenue sharing agreements, targets and procurement processes to solicit input and comments from civil society. It is also a place where partnerships can voluntarily disseminate partnership policies, practices and tools to the public, civil society and beneficiaries.

Learn more about the aims and objectives of the CGO by reading Steve Rochlin and Sunette Steyn's article in the UN Business Focal Point newsletter.