Qualità della network governance nelle aree rurali: il caso dei Gruppi di Azione Locale

Among the specific evaluation questions outlined by the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, one of them relates to the improvement of governance. For overcoming the absence of indicators, this work aims atcontributing to the governance assessment process. Assuming that the Adaptive Co-Management approach offers an interesting theoretical framework, the Adaptive Co-Management capacity is adopted as a proxy measure of the quality of network governance. It has been investigated by means of three principles (collective action, social learning, resilience) and related indicators. The proposed methodology is subsequently tested through the evaluation of the local network governance of two case studies in the South of Italy.