Governance and Board Charter

A consulting-deliverable skill: it produces a standalone Governance Framework, a set of Board and committee charters, and a Delegation-of-Authority matrix — not a business-plan section. It owns the document's structure, the consulting workflow, the parameter-setting, and the East African governance framing — and it pulls every control, fiduciary, and oversight treatment from the finance engine at chwezi-accounting-doctrine.

Use When

• A client needs a Governance Framework / Manual, Board Charter, committee charters (Finance, Audit, Procurement/Contracts, Budget, Accounts, Risk), a Delegation-of-Authority matrix, a conflict-of-interest / code-of-conduct policy, or a whistleblowing policy.
• Responding to an RFP/EOI for "development of a governance framework / board charter / delegation of authority."
• Reviewing, gap-auditing, or updating an existing governance instrument against current practice and the statutory framework.

Do Not Use When

• Writing a business-plan governance or management section — use pipeline and meta-strategy/meta-living-plan-governance.
• Authoring the finance or procurement manual — governance is a chapter there; use advisory-deliverables/finance-policy-and-manual or procurement-policy-and-manual (this skill is the full standalone charter set).
• Answering a single fiduciary-control question — go straight to the relevant finance-engine SKILL.md.

Required Inputs

Entity type and governance model (NGO/CSO with members or trustees; company limited by guarantee/shares with a board of directors; SACCO/cooperative; donor-funded project; public/local-government body with an accounting officer); legal form and registration (URSB / NGO Bureau / cooperative registrar); the governance tiers in place (General Assembly/Members, Board/Trustees, Secretariat/Management); existing committees and their mandates; any binding donor governance conditions; the entity's authorisation/approval matrix from its finance manual (for alignment); meeting cadence and quorum practice; jurisdiction (default Uganda); named approver/owner. Never fabricate these — ask.