The Governing Board provides governance oversight, legitimacy, and final decision-making for the strategic planning process. It agrees the process framework, signs off key strategic questions, establishes or assigns an oversight committee, reviews analysis, debates emerging themes, validates strategic priorities, carries out a final reality check, and normally approves the strategic plan before operational planning begins. Board members require competencies in strategic governance, strategic thinking, evidence-informed decision-making, prioritisation, accountability, resource realism, stakeholder legitimacy, Movement identity, communication, and change leadership.