About the Agreement

Our Mission
The foundation’s mission is to advance innovative approaches to public value management and social cohesion in increasingly polarized societies.

Key Objectives
a) to disseminate knowledge and promote the practice of Public Value Management in public administration, public institutions, and private organizations, with a focus on delivering collectively valued goods and services, fostering the common good, building consensus in divided communities, and addressing social justice and the challenges faced by excluded or marginalized groups;

b) to initiate and facilitate dialogue on the common good – even amid conflicting interests – drawing on leading frameworks such as Mark Moore’s public value theory, Jonathan Haidt’s moral foundations, Kim Cameron’s positive organizational scholarship, Marshall Ganz’s public narrative, and Robert Putnam’s analysis of declining social capital in polarized societies;

c) to drive social inclusion by actively engaging diverse societal groups in educational, research, and community-based initiatives.

A distinctive focus of our work is the development and application of innovative methods for building consensus on public value across deep social, political, and ideological divides. We design and test novel participatory processes and facilitation techniques that enable stakeholders with conflicting interests to identify shared public values and co-create agreed objectives for public policies.

These human-centered, evidence-based methods strengthen democratic resilience, rebuild social trust, and generate sustainable public value through transformative, scalable solutions to complex societal challenges.

The forum for dialogue
The Public Value Agreement Foundation creates an open platform for dialogue on the shaping and implementation of public value discussing the choice of priorities and actions, along with their consequences, both the beneficial ones and those that involve trade-offs or costs. It fosters debate on what is right, just, ethically justified, and morally sound, as opposed to what may raise doubts despite good intentions. Ultimately, it focuses on the optimal use of limited public resources to achieve the best possible outcomes.