Support Interagency Collaboration

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Support Interagency Collaboration

Why Is This Idea Important?: In the environmental area, the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution chairs an interagency working group on environmental conflict resolution, which promotes collaborative and open government activities. There is a Cooperative Conservation Partnership Memorandum of Understanding. There is also currently a shared neutrals program for employment disputes through which agencies share staff to mediate those conflicts. Moreover, there is an interagency ADR working group (www.adr.gov). However, agencies need broader infrastructure for collaborative governance. They need to engage in mapping across agencies for knowledge, programs, and expertise.

To support collaborative governance, agencies need to share information and expertise. Agencies need a shared platform for collaborative governance. Historically, the Administrative Conference of the United States played an important role in the growth of dispute resolution, and could serve a similar function more broadly for collaborative governance, provided it was interdisciplinary and not focused on law. Moreover, agencies need an electronic platform for sharing information and expertise.

Submitted by Lisa Blomgren Bingham 2 years ago