“The Water and Wastewater Systems Sector, commonly known as the Water and Wastewater Sector, has engaged in a considerable effort to expand mutual aid and assistance, develop critical Water and Wastewater Sector security standards, enhance local, state and federal partnerships, address cybersecurity concerns, provide research and studies, and release new risk assessment tools designed to enhance preparedness and resiliency. The Water and Wastewater Sector has approached these risk reduction activities through a partnership among the full range of sector participants, including federal and state governments, individual water and water resource recovery facilities, and national water associations. These partners assist in improving resilience by identifying joint priorities and engaging in coordinated action. As the understanding of risk and the sector’s preparedness and resiliency capabilities continue to evolve, the Water and Wastewater Sector partnership must regularly review progress and revise its priorities to reflect the current environment. This 2017 Roadmap to a Secure & Resilient Water and Wastewater Sector updates priority activity areas for the partnership over the next five years.”
“Private capital has become a significant feature of infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs) on the premise that it incentivizes diligent risk management among private partners. This paper evaluates this claim by examining the PPP programme in Ontario, Canada, where the amount of long-term private capital in…
“The public pays for and provides an incredible amount of data to governments and companies. Yet much of the value of this data is being wasted, remaining in silos rather than being shared to enhance the common good—whether it’s helping governments to stop opioid addiction…
“In our latest City Accelerator guide, ‘Resilience, Equity, and Innovation,’ we share the tools and processes four cities, Pittsburgh, Saint Paul, San Francisco and Washington D.C., explored in an effort to increase equity and fund infrastructure. With new approaches to managing public resources, these cities…
“Defined as the process of establishing, steering, facilitating, operating, and monitoring cross-sectoral organizational arrangements to address public policy problems, collaborative governance has emerged as an institutional form valued by both professional and research audiences across a growing range of policy arenas. Practice has preceded theory,…
“Multi-level and collaborative governance are multifaceted concepts grounded in several academic disciplines, government orientations, and community-level experiences. This diverse foundation provides a rich and complex canvass for constructing and operationalizing ‘governance’. The fluid and organic definition of governance contributes to the diversified origins of the…
✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Collaborative governance has been defined as the process of establishing, steering, facilitating, operating, and monitoring cross-sectoral organizational arrangements to address public policy problems that cannot be easily addressed by a single organization or the public sector alone. Understanding the…
“Governments around the world are moving toward a more global perspective in their efforts to address complex social, political, and economic issues. New requirements for international cross-boundary collaboration, driven by this global view, demand a new understanding about how individual nations respond to public problems…
“This dissertation is an exploration of collaborative governance in municipal public administration, and the elements that successful collaborations have in common. For this dissertation, the term ‘successful’ means objectives sought after were achieved. As a foundational underpinning of this dissertation, I define collaborative governance as,…
“Multi-sector partnerships play an increasingly significant role in the movement to improve health, equity, and economic prosperity. These partnerships recognize that many of our most pressing challenges defy sector boundaries, and cannot be effectively addressed by any one institution alone. Progress Along the Pathway to…
“As previous briefs in the Corridors of College Success Series have described, collective impact is a collaborative, place-based model for addressing common social problems (Kania & Kramer, 2011; Karp & Lundy-Wagner, 2015, 2016). Place-based efforts to provide wide-ranging social services date back to the settlement…