The theory behind the Toolkit

In this section, you will be able to read about the concepts and methodologies behind the REFLOW Collaborative Governance Toolkit (RCGT).

In the first section, Setting the scene, you can read about Collaborative Governance and the Circular Economy Transition, the main theory frameworks of the RCGT, and access and read about existing toolkits, developed by different organisations, that inspired this toolkit.

In the second section, the RCG Toolkit, you can read about the foundational elements of the toolkit, including the REFLOW Collaborative Governance Framework, the transition journey, that sets the timeline in which activities and tools in the RCGT can be implemented, and the portfolio approach, which can be used to strategically connect and mutually reinforce activities and experiments under a full-stack designed transition.

In the third section, the Activity Matrix, you can read about how the wide range of activities and experiments proposed in the RCGT are organised and interact between each other. The ones that were tested and implemented within REFLOW project are developed in detail in the TOOLS section of this toolkit.

You may also download the document delivered to the European Commission by the REFLOW consortium in which the main concepts of the toolkit are developed.

Collaborative Governance Toolkit (beta version)Zenodo