Strategies for Supporting Frontline Collaboration: Lessons from Stewardship Contracting
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Date
2010
Authors
Moseley, Cassandra
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Publisher
IBM Center for The Business of Government
Abstract
An agency’s culture, policies, procedures, and incentives
can make it either easier or more difficult for
field staff to collaborate effectively. There are strategies
that agency and nongovernmental leaders can use to
encourage collaboration. This report offers four strategies
for collaboration based on the experiences of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service
and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of
Land Management (BLM). Both agencies have authorities,
called “stewardship contracting,” which they
used to foster collaboration at the front line in their
agencies. Although stewardship contracting is a set
of authorities particular to the U.S. Forest Service
and BLM, much of the collaboration that these two
agencies have undertaken around stewardship contracting
did not require any special authority. The
two agencies have used stewardship contracting as a
vehicle to develop a new direction and support for
collaborative approaches to federal land management.
Description
47 p.
Keywords
Stewardship contracting