Challenges of collaborative governance in lifelong guidance in Finland

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Table 1. Overview of collaborative governance challenges.

Category	Challenges
Substantive problem-solving	Identifying, diagnosing and defining the problem
	Developing a sound theory of change
	Measuring performance against the theory of change
Collaborative process	Reaching a shared understanding on the goals and approach
	Building trust among collaborators
	Generating commitment to the process
Multi-relational accountability	Managing tension with parent organisation accountability
	Accounting to collaboration partners
	Accounting to (new) external channels of accountability

(Waardenburg et al., 2020).

Waardenburg, M., Groenleer, M., de Jong, J., & Keijser, B. (2020). Paradoxes of collaborative governance: Investigating the real-life dynamics of multi-agency collaborations using a quasi-experimental action-research approach. Public Management Review, 22(3), 386–407. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1599056

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