Collaborative Governance Processes Research Articles

Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices

Collaborative approaches to governance, policymaking, and administration are believed to provide means of adequately handling wicked problems. Simultaneously, many scholars have acknowledged the difficulty of collaboration in practice. In this article, we argue that understanding the ‘small’ practices of collaborative governance and actor-positioning processes illuminates why collaborative governance is such a challenging response to wicked problems. Instead of focussing on ‘big’ collaborative approaches to ‘big’ wicked problems, zooming in on mundane dynamics demonstrates the continuous work that governing and positioning processes require, exposing the provisional nature of elements that have been argued to be vital, such as mutual trust, reciprocity, long-term commitment, authority, or autonomy. Lastly, the mundane uncovers the importance of the material, spatial, and temporal organisation of actor-positioning processes and the potential of language to inhibit or enable collaborative governance. The article ends with a reflection on how analyses of mundane dynamics may help scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and citizens to understand their own processes of engagements in collaborative endeavours and possibly temper expectations.

Power Dynamics in Collaborative Governance Processes: A Case Study of a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood in Southern Spain

This study focuses on assessing collaborative governance from the perspective of power dynamics in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in southern Spain: Las Palmeras. Increasing global urbanisation in recent decades has exacerbated problems of segregation within cities, posing a major challenge to achieving healthy urban environments for harmonious coexistence. Public policies have struggled to address this challenge, particularly following the adoption of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have underlined the importance of fostering inclusiveness and sustainability in urban environments. In this context, collaborative governance has emerged as a prominent strategy for democratising the implementation of public policies in urban contexts. However, the efficacy of collaborative governance is hampered by the dynamics of power relations, which limits its effectiveness. The aim of this study is understanding how these dynamics mediate collaborative processes in urban regeneration contexts, an area little addressed so far. Through a case study and the systematisation of experiences, the study proposes strategic recommendations for managing these dynamics within collaborative governance. The insights drawn from this study can serve as a basis for better addressing urban challenges, thus fostering greater inclusiveness and sustainability in urban areas as well as offering valid lines for future research in the field.

Tourism Development Policy in Tomini Bay Area Gorontalo, Indonesia

This study is intended to describe all local government problems in tourism development policies in the Tomini Bay area of Gorontalo. It outlines dynamic capability collaboration, relational perspectives, and resource-based theory to explain mechanisms and dynamics. The results of this study require collaboration, innovation, and integration of the interests of stakeholders of various parties in the development of a sustainable and innovative regional system. The tourism sector is one of the opportunities to increase local income. However, this has experienced constraints on aspects of local culture that are still attached to community customs, other things such as involvement and empowerment, education, technical guidance of the community that stand out in tourist destination services. This encourages local governments to continue to develop the tourism sector in improving community welfare. This study obtained novelty of new study findings in tourism development policy by the Gorontalo local government, namely the need for the role of stakeholders still requires the synergy of various parties in the Penta helix perspective (academics, business, community, government, and media). The collaborative governance process through face-to-face dialogue, trust building, commitment to the process, shared understanding, and intermediate outcomes has contributed positively in accelerating the development and promotion of digital platform-based tourism potential.
 Keywords: policy, development, tourism, collaboration

Trust Building in the Collaborative Governance Process of Implementing Village Fund Policy: Case Study of Tanah Abang Selatan Village, Penukal Abab Lematang Ilir Regency

Trust building is a component of collaborative governance that involves face-to-face interaction, dedication to the process, mutual understanding, and short-term achievements. This study examines and outlines the various aspects of establishing confidence in the execution of village finance policies, based on the viewpoint of the Collaborative Governance Process theory. The study was carried out at Tanah Abang Selatan Village, which has been allocated village finances since 2015. Empirical evidence demonstrates that the trust actors place in the collaborative governance process can be beneficial in facilitating the achievement of actor support, cooperation, commitment, and successful policy implementation. Nevertheless, the existing literature on collaborative governance indicates a scarcity of studies on establishing trust in policy execution, particularly in the context of implementing village fund regulations. The findings of this study demonstrate that the establishment of trust among participants in the Collaborative Governance process significantly enhances the efficacy of implementing the village fund policy in Tanah Abang Selatan Village, Tanah Abang District, Penukal Abab Lematang Ilir Regency (PALI).

Collaborative Governance Process by Disaster Resilient Villages (DESTANA) to Improve Performance

The existence of a Disaster Resilient Village (Destana) is very important for the region in mitigating flood disasters. Destana has the function of protecting the community, increasing community participation, increasing capacity, increasing government capacity in providing resource and technical support for disaster risk reduction, and increasing cooperation between stakeholders. This function will be achieved well if there is collaboration with other stakeholders. Destana's performance will be better if it can create collaborative governance through the right process. The process begins with face-to-face, namely conducting dialogue on existing problems with stakeholders. Followed by a trust-building process, namely creating a sense of trust because of shared interests, after that, the commitment to the process is a joint agreement to carry out the program. The next process is sharing understanding, which is raising awareness together to overcome floods followed by the Intermediate outcomes process, which is evaluating the temporary results of the collaborative process. These steps will be able to run optimally to improve Destana's performance if the right organization is selected to collaborate with so that a scheme is needed that fits the conditions of each village.

Collaborative Governance: Trust Building Indicators in The “Fish Apartment” Community Empowerment Area Development (Cead)

The trust-building indicator is one of the stages in the collaboration process that considers collaboration to be more than just negotiations among various stakeholders. Beyond that, it is an effort to mutually build trust. Building trust is crucial and should be done as early as possible when the collaboration process begins to prevent egoism among the various institutions or organizations involved. The purpose of this research is to understand the collaborative governance process by analyzing the trust-building indicator in the implementation of the Community Empowerment Area Development Program through the "Apartemen Ikan" program in Malili sub-district. The research method used a qualitative approach, with data collected through interviews, field observations, and document reviews. The data obtained were analyzed through several stages: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and verification. The informant determination technique used purposive sampling, with informants in this study being: 1) Regional Secretary of East Luwu Regency; 2) Head of Community and Village Empowerment Office of East Luwu Regency; 3) Director of Communications and External Relations of PT. Vale Indonesia, Tbk; and 4) Coastal Communities. The research results indicate that the trust-building indicator in the implementation of the Community Empowerment Area Development Program through the "Apartemen Ikan" program in Malili sub-district, East Luwu Regency, is influenced by several factors, namely: 1) The "Apartemen Ikan" program is discussed collectively by all parties in meetings and deliberations; 2) awareness of the initial collaboration goals; 3) the existence of jealousy among villages and communities (sectoral ego); 4) conflict of interest in providing assistance; 5) insufficient quality of human resources; 6) joint commitment to completing the program is lacking; 7) responsiveness of the budget from PT. Vale; and 8) lack of transparency in CSR budgeting. Therefore, the trust established among stakeholders is considered insufficient.

Placing Stakeholder Formation in Central Oregon’s Deschutes Basin

This paper examines the processes by which “stakeholder” status is constructed, and the importance of sense of place to that construction in collaborative water resource governance processes. Water management often involves collaborative governance, but there can be differences between who has an interest in the outcome, and who is formally invited to participate as a “stakeholder.” We examine a case study of a collaborative water governance process in Central Oregon, and found that existing models of stakeholder formation present in scholarly literature did not fully explain the dynamics of stakeholder participation. We propose a two-step “Interest-Participation” model of stakeholder formation: to be considered stakeholders, a group must not only have an interest in the outcome but must actively navigate barriers to participation. We moreover argue that collaborative engagement is an embodiment of sense of place, emphasizing the importance of competing place meanings in resource governance processes.

Fostering Trust In Collaborative: Building Child-Friendly Cities in Emerging Industrial Landscapes

This article examines the reconstruction of stakeholder confidence in the collaborative governance process for the sustainability of child-friendly cities in new industrial communities. Research problems are due to the implications of the growth of new industrial societies, differences and conflicts of interest between stakeholders, child growth and development problems, high stunting, juvenile delinquency, street children, and parenting patterns that are not by needs. This study aims to analyze the reconstruction of stakeholder trust in creating awareness and shared commitment to collaborative governance processes to realize the sustainability of child-friendly cities. The research method is qualitative, research data is collected through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (FGD). The results of the study show that collaborative governance processes are faced with different interest gaps that result in a lack of trust and commitment to realizing a child-friendly city. A joint forum among stakeholders in the child-friendliness campaign efforts has been organized but shows no signs of effectiveness. The lack of synergy between local governments and industry players is present, therefore efforts to rebuild trust in realizing the sustainability of a child-friendly environment need to be optimized through communication, openness, social responsibility, and supervision of local governments.

Collaborative Governance Process in MSMEs Empowerment through Desa-Preneur Program in Sidoarum Village, Yogyakarta

Rural MSMEs have a small business scale in terms of capital, labor, market orientation, and limited technology adoption so Dinas Koperasi and UKM DIY (Department of Cooperatives and SMEs of the Special Region of Yogyakarta) implement MSMEs empowerment policy through the Desa-Preneur Program. The involvement of various stakeholders has been attempted, but this program has not fully targeted all Sidoarum MSME actors. This study discusses the process of collaborative governance in the implementation of the Desa-Preneur Program in Sidoarum Village, Yogyakarta. The research uses a qualitative descriptive method with primary data obtained from interviews, and secondary data collected through documentation and literature. The result showed that collaborative governance indicators have not been fully implemented. The role of lurah as program leader has not been maximized in carrying out the role as a program leader. Not all MSMEs actors participate in mentoring routinely and village economic institutions have not been formed. Several program achievements have been fulfilled, but still require consistent implementation of learning outcomes. The researchers suggest that village government to have more concern bridging out the provincial government and community in term of Desa-Preneur Program implementation. Institutional strengthening of BUMDes and cooperatives is important as a place of collaboration between stakeholders. Desa-Preneur Program in Sidoarum Village must be synergized with other programs and needs to involve other government institutions that support local MSMEs empowerment.

Community Engagement in Urban Experiments: Joint Effort for Sustainable Urban Transformation

The increasing complexity of urban regeneration issues has recently made multi-stakeholder collaboration an important part to solve policy problems. While residents form an important part in a variety of collaborative governance processes, approaches used are often criticized as too formal, and lacking more inclusive participation. Therefore, new informal mechanisms of collaboration are sought, to ensure a more effective engagement and representation of population groups. Although community-led participation is the approach that leads to a more effective collaborative process, issues of power and inequality are a challenge in many places in planning practice [13]. Ways of civic empowerment, communication, and negotiation provide participants with transformative learning opportunities so that not only their arguments change but also the participants of the participation process themselves [6]. In order to test urban development ideas, the notion of "urban experiment" has been developed in recent years as a recognized and effective approach. The urban environment is viewed as a creative laboratory for testing the implementation of diverse initiatives and innovations [8]. The inner-city neighbourhoods in many cities are struggling to ensure vitality and liveability, thus these areas often represent a widespread location of urban experiments. In addition to these questions, the problem of community representation manifests itself in many inner cities. The potential to transform city centre streets and vacant areas into user-friendly urban spaces and the impact of those transformations on the city’s livability were recently tested by Riga municipality. Urban experiments varied in scale and form, resulting in street pedestrianization, urban gardens, and other temporary initiatives, which allowed more space for walking and cycling, street sales, social events and other activities. Thus, the aim of this article is to explore processes of testbed planning with regard to the role of community participation in the designing, implementing, and analysing phases of the experiment. After presenting the findings, the article concludes with a discussion on factors that influence public participation in collaborative governance including communication, the balance of interests, and the degree of resident involvement in decision-making.

Stakeholder Analysis as a strategic tool in framing collaborative governance arenas for marine litter monitoring

Monitoring and assessment of marine litter requires multi-stakeholder involvement at national and subnational levels. Collaborative governance approaches are important, but often fail without adequate effort towards identifying and engaging stakeholders with appropriate profiles for the issue at stake. Stakeholder Analysis (SA) is increasingly used to ensure efficient governance arrangements. Our hypothesis is that SA contributes to collaborative governance processes for marine litter policies. We explored a pioneer participatory process in Brazil, where SA was applied to identify, categorize, and prioritize stakeholders, and analyze their power and interest, for the Strategic Plan for Monitoring and Assessing Marine Litter in the state of São Paulo. A top-down/bottom-up approach revealed that snowball sampling complemented the stakeholder assemblage identified by the consultation of experts. Prioritization of data-related stakeholders streamlined the participatory process. The interest-power matrix evaluated stakeholders' influences, guiding specific engagement strategies. We highlight the significance of SA in collaborative governance and mobilizing key stakeholders for effective marine litter monitoring initiatives, contributing to the global agenda to combat marine pollution.

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE STRATEGY

development of tourism potential in Karangasem and Ngrombo Tourism Village. This research was conducted in a qualitative descriptive manner by elaborating the techniques of extracting data from in-depth interviews, observation, focus group discussions, and documentation to explore primary and secondary data. Checking the validity of the data has been done through triangulation of sources. The research subjects include elements of the government, private sector, axademics , mass media, communities, and local communities in Karangasem and Ngrombo Tourism Village. Meanwhile, the data analysis technique was compiled interactively including the stages of data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes), academics, private sector, mass media, tourism awareness groups, youth organizations, and local communities. The collaborative governance process that occurs through face-to-face dialogue, trust building, commitment to the process, shared understanding, and intermediate outcomes have made a positive contribution to increasing the acceleration of tourism potential development and promotion based on digital platforms from Karangasem and Ngrombo Tourism Villages. However, some challenges must be managed better in the aspect of building trust in the management of Karangasem and Ngrombo Tourism Village because there are different backgrounds and priority interests of each actor involved. In addition, long-term sustainable interventions need to be carried out on aspects of commitment to the process and shared understanding to have a multiplier effect on the outcome in the future. The results of this study are expected to provide real implications for the management of the Karangasem and Ngrombo Tourism Village and the Karangasem and Ngrombo Village Government to innovate in accelerating the promotion and commercialization of Karangasem and Ngrombo village tourism products.

Proses Collaborative Governance Dalam Program Pengurangan Sampah Di TPA Jabon, Kabupaten Sidoarjo

The problem of waste is a complex problem that will never end, especially in developing countries. The increasing population of humans is accompanied by an increase in the amount of waste generated. Sidoarjo Regency is a regency that is registered as the regency with the largest volume of waste in East Java, which causes overload of waste in its landfill. This research aims to clearly understand the process of collaborative governance in the waste reduction program at Jabon Landfill, Sidoarjo. This research method uses a qualitative method. Data collection was carried out through documentation and literature study. The data analysis method in this study is descriptive-qualitative. The theory used in this study is the collaborative governance theory by Ratner (2012). The results of this study show that the collaborative governance process that occurs in the "Waste Reduction Program" at Jabon Landfill, Sidoarjo only involves the community and informal organizations, not yet involving the private sector in its management.

Collaborative Governance in Tourism Development (Study in Karangsalam Banyumas Tourism Village)

This research is aimed at analyzing the collaborative governance process in tourism development, especially in the Karangsalam Tourism Village. Moreover, this research also analyzes the supporting and inhibiting factors in implementing collaborative governance in Karangsalam Village. This research uses a qualitative approach design, where data collection is carried out by interviews, observations, document studies and focus group discussions. Interviews were carried out by interviewing representatives of all stakeholders, namely from the government, private sector/entrepreneurs and the community. The research results show that Karangsalam Village has implemented the concept of collaborative governance in developing its tourism by involving many parties. The parties involved in the collaboration dynamics have been adapted to the existing characteristics, challenges and opportunities. However, it turns out that the existing collaboration is still not optimal and tends to fade, because there are also factors inhibiting collaboration in tourism development, namely the existence of sectoral egos, conflicts of interest, low quality of human resources, and lack of regulation.

Collaborative Governance in the Implementation of Vocational Schools in Makassar City

This study aimed to analyze collaborative governance in the implementation of vocational schools in Makassar City. Using a qualitative approach, data was collected through in-depth interviews with key informants, participatory observations, and document analysis. The results of this study show that collaborative governance in the implementation of vocational schools, as formulated by Ansell and Gash (starting condition, facilitative leadership, institutional design, collaborative process, and intermediate outcome) in the collaborative governance process, has not been fully implemented, and there are still stakeholders who have not participated in this field of work. In addition, we can see that in the implementation of the curriculum, fully collaborative governance has not worked according to the teaching staff, funding, and infrastructure supported by the results of interviews from the principal and Forestry vocational high school teachers Makassar, SMKN 3 Makassar, Telkom vocational school, and Jaya Negara vocational school, said that. The results of this research can be used as a basis for the development of an effective collaborative model for vocational schools in Makassar City.
 Keywords: collaborative, governance, stakeholders, vocational stud

Collaborative Governance in Investment Programs in Makassar City

Collaborative governance encourages cooperation and active participation among various parties. This study aims to analyze collaborative governance in investment programs in the city of Makassar. It uses a qualitative descriptive research method. Data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation studies. The research participants were actors involved in the investment program. Data sources included primary data obtained from observations and in-depth interviews, while secondary data were obtained from document searches. The results show that the collaborative governance process in the investment program in Makassar City is going well, as can be seen from the routine face-to-face dialogue as well as the trust that is built through the provision of information and evaluating services. Joint commitment is achieved by carrying out duties and functions. However, there are still apparatus human resources that have not participated in investment management training, which hinders the optimal implementation of the program. Meanwhile, shared understanding has been built through joint deliberations as a form of constraint discussion. The results of the investment program can be seen in the annual increase in domestic and foreign investment.
 Keywords: collaborative governance, investment program, capital investment

Collaborative Governance in the Development of Silk Commodities in South Sulawesi

This study departs from the fact that the silk sector in South Sulawesi is currently experiencing a decline, even though it is closely attached to the culture of the people of South Sulawesi and has broad and varied potential benefits. Silk has also become a priority sector in the provincial government’s development planning. In recent years, collaborative governance has become a concept that has been in great demand by academics. Collaborative governance has emerged to respond to implementation failures, high costs, and the politicization of public sector regulations. The focus is on each stage of public policy. It is a new paradigm to understand the existence of multiple stakeholders in public affairs. This study aimed to explain collaborative governance in the development of silk commodities in South Sulawesi, and case studies were used to analyze such models. I used a post-positivist research paradigm with qualitative methods. The government’s efforts to develop the silk commodity in South Sulawesi by implementing a collaborative governance process have shown results that have not been maximized in the upstream, manufacturing, and downstream sectors, which are still dominated by entrepreneurs. Therefore, the government’s role is needed to formulate policies that are more effective and capable of developing good collaboration with the public sector and society.
 Keywords: collaborative governance, silk commodity

Collaborative Governance dalam Program Rehabilitasi Sosial Rumah Tidak Layak Huni di Kota Surabaya

Abstract: The Social Rehabilitation Program for Uninhabitable Houses abbreviated as rutilahu is a program to improve the quality of housing through repairs as a whole and/or entirely with the principles of acceptability, transparency, accountability, integration, partnership, solidarity, benefits and participation. This study aims to describe in depth the process of collaborative governance in the Social Rehabilitation Program for Uninhabitable Houses in the City of Surabaya. This type of research uses descriptive qualitative techniques with the determining informants through purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Data collection techniques used were observations, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis techniques using "interactive model of analysis" by Miles and Huberman (2014). The collaborative governance process is analyzed by theory (Ansell & Gash, 2007) including face to face dialogue, trust building, commitment to the process, shared understanding, and intermediate outcomes. The results showed that the collaboration process had been successfully carried out at the face to face dialogue, trust building, share understanding, and intermediate outcome stages between the DPRKPP of Surabaya City with BP2P Jawa IV, Baznas Surabaya, YMI ITS, Victory Community Church of Surabaya, KTPR, Bank Mandiri, and from private donor. Meanwhile, the collaboration process at the commitment to the process stage has been quite successful between the parties. In the commitment to the process stage, the majority of the collaborating or participating parties do not yet have written documents that can strengthen their collaborative relationship, so at least a letter of agreement is needed stating or known by the parties concerned.

Strategi Pengelolaan Sampah Rumah Tangga di Kecamatan Jatiasih Kota Bekasi

This research aims to determine the strategy of domestic waste management in Jatiasih sub-District of Bekasi City, in this case whether collaborative governance theory has been applied in domestic waste management in Jatiasih sub-District of Bekasi City. This research use descriptive qualitative method, where data collection techniques are carried out by conducting interviews, documentation and obsevation. In collecting data, the researcher chose informants using purposive sampling technique where the researcher selected 6 (six) informants, namely 1 (one) Head of Technical Implementation Unit of The Environmental Service Office of Jatiasih sub-District or later called UPTD LH Jatiasih sub-District, 1 (one) person busines actor, 1 (one) trash bank activist and 3 (three) community members. The results showed that the strategy of domestic waste management in Jatiasih sub-District of Bekasi City has not applied the collaborative governance theory as a whole. In the domestic waste management, the UPTD LH Jatiasih sub-District has not optimally involved the community members in the strategy of domestic waste management in Jatiasih sub-District of Bekasi City. This relates to the fact that indicators in the collaborative governance process have not yet been fully implemented. The domestic waste management in Jatiasih sub-District of Bekasi City still faces various problems.

Beyond engagement: Enhancing equity in collaborative water governance

AbstractCollaborative governance has emerged as a promising approach for addressing complex water sustainability issues, with purported benefits from enhanced democracy to improved environmental outcomes. Collaborative processes are often assumed to be inherently more equitable than traditional governance approaches due to their goal of engaging diverse actors in the development of policy and management solutions. However, when collaborative water governance processes ignore issues of politics and power in their design, they risk creating or even exacerbating existing inequities. How, then, can collaborative water governance processes be designed to enhance, rather than undermine, equity? To answer this question, we first conduct an extensive review of the collaborative governance literature to identify common design features of collaborative processes, which each present potential benefits and challenges for actualizing equitable collaborative water governance. After critically discussing these design features, we explore how they are executed through two case studies of collaborative water governance in western North America: groundwater governance reform in California and transnational Colorado River Delta governance. In reflecting on these cases, we chart an agenda for future collaborative water governance research and practice that moves beyond engaging diverse actors to promoting equity among them.This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Science of Water > Water and Environmental Change Engineering Water > Planning Water