1. Steering Committees
Zero Waste
GAIA

2. Types
• Working steering committee
• Strategic steeringZero Waste
committee
GAIA
• Advisory council
• Governing board of directors

3. Structure
• IndyACT model
• Greenpeace model Waste
Zero
GAIA
• Green Line model
• CAN model

4. Roles
• Strategic direction
• Building positions
• Restructuring
• Fundraising Zero Waste
• Accountability GAIA
• Keeping the spirit
• Crisis management
• Trouble shooting
• Conflict resolution
• Generic thinking
• Role models

5. Key aspects of a SC
• Independent from coordination team
• Sense of role andZero Waste
ownership
GAIA
• Constant growth of expertise

6. Suggested direction
• Self-perpetuating SC based on criteria
• Supportive role, task taking, financial stability
– Ex: membership Zero Waste model role,
activation, role
dealing with issues, GAIA
fundraising…
• Setting processes
• Generative thinking
• Taking/approving critical decisions, crisis
management and conflict resolution

7. Problem points
• Coordination team doing too much, need
focus
• GAIA is operatingZero Waste cases as NGO
as in some
GAIA
rather than a network
• Reactive rather than proactive
• Little use of global aspect of the network
– Ex: coordinated global campaign