ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors provide several recommendations for embracing and incentivizing effective collective governance. The governance entrepreneur will need extensive support. At a minimum, domestic governments should participate in collaborative governance efforts. For diplomats and international development workers, collective governance is a fundamentally different form of development support. The efforts of Publish What You Pay have led to significant improvements in the policies and practices of governments and companies in the extractive sector through the building of civil society rather than government. It is necessary for international civil society to remain engaged to ensure that the data is reliable, used, analysed and compared, and informs debate in the countries in which the payments are made. However, for the international coalitions to be most effective they need to respond more to the interests of their national stakeholders than their international funders.
