The Governance and Organisational Enhancement (GOE) Plan is the mechanism by which Sport Australia supports sports to achieve contemporary governance arrangements.
Using the annual Sport Governance Standards (SGS) results to help establish priorities, sports develop an action plan with the support of their SportAus Governance Advisor to raise their governance maturity level.
Key elements of a sports GOE Plan
Why should a sport have a GOE Plan?
There are multiple actions required to be taken regularly to develop and sustain effective governance practices. The GOE Plan is designed to collate these actions into a single document, simplifying the process, and enabling the Governance and Organisational Enhancement (GOE) Team to provide assistance to NSOs in a methodical manner.
Each GOE Plan will feature activities to assist a sport to improve their governance practices in areas which have been identified as sector priorities by Sport Australia and the State & Territory Agencies for Sport & Recreation (STASR). The achievement of these sector priorities will be supported by the Sport Australia governance advisor. NSOs will also have the opportunity to include activities within their GOE Plans to address additional standards, which will be identified by the NSO’s own responses to the SGS.
Sport Governance Performance Cycle for funded NSOs
The Timeline:
March - NSO/D-Self-Assesment-Online survey completed by each funded NSO/D via Partner Portal
April - Data Collection-SportAus GOE team develop insights to inform the Benchmarking Report
May - Benchmarking Report-SportAus release results of SGS self-assessment, deliver findings
June - GOE Plan Development-SportAus GOE team develop tailored plan for next 12 months, based on the individual NSO/D results-NSO/D Board endorse GOE Plan; Chair sign-off
July - GOE Plan Implementation-NSO/D deliver actions to improve governance maturity; SportAus Governance Advisor supports
AGM (Nov)-AGM (May) - NSO/D Boards Present Governance Report-Boards present governance performance to members in Annual Report at AGM
More information
For further information or to request assistance from the Sport Governance and Organisational Enhancement team, please contact sportsgovernance@ausport.gov.au.