Impact Trust • Working glossary

Anticipatory governance

Governance that systematically considers long-term and future impacts when making decisions today – building foresight into policy-making rather than treating it as an add-on.

Details

Context introduced
Growing fast in EU and UN language; the September 2024 Summit of the Future Declaration commits all governments to this. Still quite abstract for practitioners – ‘governing with the future in mind’ is plainer.
Source
OECD, EU, SOIF, public sector innovation
Source / First Appears In
Futures Literacy TDT session
Authors
Impact Trust team