- Value [1] Open Government
- Commitment to the Principles of Open Government -- The Foundation is mindful that this country grapples with significant environmental
and societal challenges -- among them climate change, making sustainable energy a reality, and ensuring educational and economic
opportunity for all Americans. Addressing these challenges requires educating and enabling current and future leaders to move
beyond conflict to constructive dialogue, active participation and collaboration. The Foundation is committed to embedding
the principles of openness into the ongoing work of the agency. The Foundation is unique among federal agencies in that the
values of transparency, participation, and collaboration are squarely aligned with the very mission of the Foundation's environmental
conflict resolution program, the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. The Foundation is also different from
other agencies in that the Foundation does not have regulatory, policy making, or adjudicatory functions. Rather, it serves
as a resource for education, collaboration, and conflict management. The Foundation's open government plan reflects this unique
role, and outlines efforts underway to embed the principles of openness into the Foundation's operations, as well as through
its work promoting and enabling collaborative governance in the federal arena. Across the federal government, greater use
can be made of collaborative problem-solving and alternative dispute resolution processes to reduce the costs of conflict
(e.g., project delays, poorly informed decisions, appeals and litigation) and to increase the benefits of collaboration (e.g.,
timely cost-effective solutions, innovative solutions, improved working relationships, buy-in and commitment to solutions).
Embracing such approaches will be an important step in working to gain public trust and in creating a more transparent, participatory
and collaborative government.
- Value [2] Transparency
- Value [3] Participation
- Value [4] Collaboration
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