2010 report, “A Glass Half Full” by the Local Government Association (LGA) • Be in line with the initiatives that focus on wellbeing and place-shaping • Promote involvement at the population-level, not just in the commissioning process, but also to decide the activities to be commissioned • Facilitate co-production of health care with 3rd-sector users and organisations • Consider ways to invest in long-term outcomes and measure outcomes. Consensus on the Common Hurdles According to the U.K. Ministry of Housing, Local Communities and Government, there is a consensus on the common hurdles to asset-based commissioning that involve: • A short-term focus • A top-down approach • Siloed working • Transactional decision making, and • Inability to leverage additional funding. Annotated Commissioning Cycle Here’s is the annotated commissioning cycle which explains the processes that are required to be incorporated into a commissioning cycle. • Insight: Commissioning management organisations look beyond service data to create a detailed picture of how resources can be used in the most effective manner. • Planning: Commissioners co-produce the framework for outcomes as well as measurement approach with people, and work with providers to build their capacity to co-produce and create awareness of social action, while taking decisions on procurement and funding. • Delivery: Commissioning management ventures track environmental, social and economic value, collect insights to adapt and enhance services with time, and co-produce assessments of the services with people who use them. 5 Steps to Become More Asset-Based • Shifting the Focus: Shift your thinking from simply considering services as assets to a place-based approach that aims to build and shape communities’ and people’s assets and that involves the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector. • Recognising People’s Contributions: Instead of considering organisations as the sole producers of results, acknowledge that outcomes are attained by communities, people, and organisations in collaboration. Summary • Asset-based commissioning is an approach that enables communities and people, along with organisations, to become equal co-producers and co-commissioners while making best complimentary use of all assets, via self-help, to enhance whole life as well as community outcomes. • Find here approaches to commissioning that facilitate community building and community development. Also, learn about the processes that are required to be incorporated into a commissioning cycle, along with the five steps a commissioning management organisation can follow to become more asset-based. • Sharing the Decision-Making: Instead of organisations consulting communities and people prior to taking decisions, ensure that communities and people are equal decision-makers from the beginning and throughout the process, with considerable investment in community groups to facilitate the same.
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