Centre for Rural Research in collaboration with Nordlandforskning is to evaluate government and public management in the Værnes region, Norway. The Værnes region is an extensive cooperation between six municipalities. The cooperation is complex: in terms of service character (administrative services and services carrying out civic authority, such as child care services); in terms of kind of municipality (peri-urban with persistent growth, and smaller peripheral municipalities with persistent population decline); and a pletora of liaison committees. The cooperation is organised as partly administrative host municipality cooperation and partly with an elected committee.