Governance

About Governance and delivering quality and a self assessment test

The October 25 visit to Turkiye we used Moore’s model to understand the quality of governance in spatial planning. The model is called the “strategic triangle”. The strategic triangle shows that public value is created when a given strategy or action has democratic legitimacy (e.g., the community supports it) and the support of the authorizing environment (e.g., a governing board), and when the government has the operational capacity to implement the strategy or action effectively. 

Creating public benefits
We have used this in understanding the way to create public value in spatial planning. Public value being the collective benefit(s) created by government (and sometimes private/nonprofit) actions. We used this organisational value model that highlights the three elements of value: the degree of legitimacy and support that the project or concept can garner, the organisational capabilities, and the value delivered, or potentially delivered.

So how to see how good the governments operate and where there are opportunities to improve? That is why we organized a workshop to score the governance in spatial planning. Here are the scorecards we used as a self assessment:

Strategic (a common vision): How good is the government working at the strategic level?
Deciding on public value outcome to be created (the value that is to be contributed to society) score card (doc), interactive test

Tactic: How good is the government working at the tactic level?
Creating a legislation framework and support, the authorising environment. score card (doc), interactive test

Operational: How good is the government operational level?
Assessing the operational capabilities: the assets, people, competencies, and ‘knowhow’ to get things done. score card (doc), interactive test

Here is the presentation of Joanna Stegenga-Rydlewska about Dutch governance in spatial planning (pdf)

… (maybe there is more to follow, like a Turkish version (some problems with that have arisen) and a way to print the outcomes as a pdf).

Did you see the page about citizen participation? Visit it here