4 Recommendations
The recent research by Compass Partnership and Cass Business School mentioned earlier suggests that strengthening governance requires work particularly on structures, processes, meetings and behaviours.
Appropriate structures provide the foundations for good governance, and these need to be supported by tightly managed processes. These provide the basis for effective meetings which in turn are dependent on excellent relationships and behaviours.
Structures are the easiest to modify and board behaviours are the most difficult to change. However whilst structures and processes need to be appropriate, the gains from changing them are less significant than the gains from having really strategic meetings and most important of all establishing open, honest and trusting relationships throughout.
Our recommendations are organised mainly into this framework of the four fundamental elements of governance, followed by a section on governance in a global movement. The rationale for many of them relates directly to the assessment we made and set out in chapter 3.
