Leadership and It is the responsibility of the board or management The Alliances demonstrate vision building committee/steering committee of the Alliance to provide strategic strong leadership, direction and establish and maintain the values and principles on informed by which the Alliance and the program is built values and principles Legal The Board/governing body needs to ensure that its legal obligations Each Alliance expresses a responsibilities are met. It must be clear for each Alliance which body this is that clear understanding of has this responsibility their responsibilities in this area Ethical codes and The Board/governing body needs to ensure that its legal obligations This Review did not practices are met. It must be clear for each Alliance which body this is that undertaken a detailed has this responsibility assessment of this aspect of the Alliance’s governance structures Alliance structure Structure should be documented which includes the composition, The Alliances are and operations selection and appointment of members, succession planning, roles adequately documented in and responsibilities, as well as operations maintaining and this area – improving processes, clarifying responsibilities, delegations of authority Alliance reporting The Alliance needs to operate within a comprehensive policy The OfW provides a compliance, framework that includes an overarching strategy and detailed reporting project plans and operational/delivery plan framework which facilitates operations this requirement Risk assessment Careful processes of risk assessment and management are This area needs attention implemented and reviewed. These should be documented and and management across the Alliances publicly available Performance Each Alliance should be explicit about monitoring its own The OfW reporting monitoring and performance and that of the board/steering committee/reference framework enables management group and executive officer/s. Evidence should be available of the detailed monitoring of their practice to take any necessary steps to address issues as they may performance. emerge. This Review did not assess the adequacy of their officer or staff performance management. Source: Adapted from Bradfield and Nyland (cited in NCOSS 2011) Some Alliances are incorporated; others are located within relevant incorporated organisations. Flexibility with respect to this seems appropriate within the Alliance model as it enables each Alliance to evolve as appropriate. What is important is that each has a governance structure that ensures that the principles of good governance are adhered to and the Department is satisfied that the questions, as outlined in Table 1, are capable of being answered adequately by each Alliance on an on-going basis. Table 2 provides a summary of the governance arrangement for each Alliance.
Leadership and vision building It is the responsibility of the board or management committee/steering committee of the Alliance to provide strategic direction and establish and maintain the values and principles on which the Alliance and the program is built The Alliances demonstrate strong leadership, informed by values and principles Legal responsibilities The Board/governing body needs to ensure that its legal obligations are met. It must be clear for each Alliance which body this is that has this responsibility Each Alliance expresses a clear understanding of their responsibilities in this area Ethical codes and practices The Board/governing body needs to ensure that its legal obligations are met. It must be clear for each Alliance which body this is that has this responsibility This Review did not undertaken a detailed assessment of this aspect of the Alliance’s governance structures Alliance structure and operations Structure should be documented which includes the composition, selection and appointment of members, succession planning, roles and responsibilities, as well as operations – maintaining and improving processes, clarifying responsibilities, delegations of authority The Alliances are adequately documented in this area Alliance reporting compliance, project plans and operations The Alliance needs to operate within a comprehensive policy framework that includes an overarching strategy and operational/delivery plan The OfW provides a detailed reporting framework which facilitates this requirement Risk assessment and management Careful processes of risk assessment and management are implemented and reviewed. These should be documented and publicly available This area needs attention across the Alliances Performance monitoring and management Each Alliance should be explicit about monitoring its own performance and that of the board/steering committee/reference group and executive officer/s. Evidence should be available of the practice to take any necessary steps to address issues as they may emerge. The OfW reporting framework enables detailed monitoring of their performance. This Review did not assess the adequacy of their officer or staff performance management. Source: Adapted from Bradfield and Nyland (cited in NCOSS 2011) Some Alliances are incorporated; others are located within relevant incorporated organisations. Flexibility with respect to this seems appropriate within the Alliance model as it enables each Alliance to evolve as appropriate. What is important is that each has a governance structure that ensures that the principles of good governance are adhered to and the Department is satisfied that the questions, as outlined in Table 1, are capable of being answered adequately by each Alliance on an on-going basis. Table 2 provides a summary of the governance arrangement for each Alliance.
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