摘要:Planning regional politics and public interventions both at sectorial and territorial level, requires the presence of a regional governance which can provide straight orientation for the balanced development of the regional territory, which cannot disregard a comparative analysis, broadly speaking, of all the local governance tools. In fact, out of the very comparison of all the different governance tools present within the Sicilian regional territory, useful and interesting considerations came out the policy maker should pay attention to, in view of guaranteeing an equally-distributed public intervention in respect of the needs and excellences of the territories, and at the same time avoiding the linear distribution of the public financial resources. This work aims at spreading the first results of a research project oriented towards the analysis of new governance tools in relation to the evolutions of the national and community policies’ schemes.