ABSTRACT
The ‘Governance Dashboard’ is a transdisciplinary tool for researching and adaptively improving community governance in partnership with communities and support agencies. The dashboard is designed to dig beneath the leadership into the ‘followership’, and to describe citizens’ knowledge of and satisfaction with community finances, transparency, equity, accountability, employment and benefits. Developed in collaboration with CBNRM programmes in southern Africa, the governance dashboard represents an adaptive and iterative learning process that offers feedback and modification potential at each step (see Figure 11.1). The goal of CBNRM is to simultaneously reduce poverty and sustain natural or ‘wild’ resources by devolving rights and benefits to local communities. The governance dashboard responds to the growing recognition of the importance of governance process within communities to conservation and development outcomes. It is based on the hypothesis that equitable benefit sharing and inclusive governance (through participatory democracy) is necessary to meet these goals. The governance dashboard is designed as an iterative and adaptive process. The governance dashboard and the adaptive management cycle (Modifed from Martin 2009) https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315851693/25546db7-f14e-4b5f-8d78-9e55dff43a42/content/fig11_1_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
