• Alignment with project
objectives and constraints

• Lead responsibilities

• Decision-making authority and process principles

• Sunset planning

• Relationship to key political and bureaucratic decision-makers

• Reporting and accountability

• Key stakeholders or
individuals to be involved.

• Required competencies.

• Organizational leverage.

• Project user groups.

• Funding and fin ancing.

• Project operations

• Independence

• Linkages between the parties involved and the sponsors project objectives

• Governance mandate
provided by sponsor's
decision-making body

• Project governance organization clearly
structured and aligned with mandate

• Roles and responsibilities:

• Steering committee
structure

• Working committee
structure

• Sub-committees

• Liaison functions

• External advisors
(e.g. procurement, fairness, financial, legal.)

• Authorities come from the sponsor's decision-making body

• The delegations relate to:

• Approvals

• Budget

• Procurement (services and
project)

• Project scope and
re-scoping

• Authority delegated to the
project team/manager
level, where appropriate

• Decision-making process -
who, what, when and how

• Description of the types
of decisions that need
to be made by governance committee and what decisions can be made a project team/ management level