Topic outline
1b. Governance Challenges for long-term transition planning
Developing enhanced governance arrangements is one out of four main operational objectives within SUMP-PLUS. These should help create a governance structure in each SUMP-PLUS city that unites different (and sometimes competing) levels of government and public, private and civil society organisations behind a single approach: one that reconciles differences and fosters sustainable urban mobility.
Achieving this will involve analysing the role that governance capacity building has to play in creating cities’ transition pathways, with a focus on governance structures and policy processes. Feeding into this will be a qualitative analysis of governance capacity building in the six SUMP-PLUS cities.
SUMP-PLUS will also look at how transition pathways should be governed from a political, administrative, and resource point of view. This will entail looking at factors that can significantly influence governance, such as organisational reform, the mind-sets of various actors, funding sources, and (new) legislation.
- Sub-course 1b: Governance challenges File PDF document
This sub-course addresses governance challenges for long-term transition planning. - Lesson #4: Governance capacity building to support creation of 'transition pathways' File PDF document
This lesson will address the topic of governance capacity building in the context of creating cities "transition pathways". 
This lesson takes a peak into the requirements related to the governing of long-term policy processes.
- RESOURCE: Governance tools - user guidelines File PDF document
The guidelines provide an explanation on how the self-assessment tools should be used.
POLICY BRIEF: Building Governance Capacity To Achieve Sustainable Urban Mobility Transitions / Authors: Dr. Charlotte Halpern, Dan Broghan, Anna Emilie Wehrle Sciences Po, Centre for European studies and comparative politics, Paris (France).
