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What is Good Governance
1.
It is the process of measuring how public institution conduct public affairs and manage public resources and guarantee the realization of human rights in a manner essentially free of abuse and corruption and with due regard for the rule of law.
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2.
According to the World Bank’s measures of
good governance
, a country with
good governance
holds the figures of any or all of the indicators more than one and close to +2.5.
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3.
It defines the principles of public administration and provides a formal and informal framework that eliminates the imbalances derived from asymmetric information between decision-makers and individuals.
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4.
The concept of
governance
has been variously defined by scholars. The term connotes “the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country’s economic and social resources for development”. It also implies the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country’s affairs at all levels.
Good governance
comprises the mechanisms, processes, and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations and mediate their differences”.
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5.
Here, we refer to The World Bank’s identification of four aspects to
good governance
: Public-sector management, accountability, legal framework for development, and transparency and information. To these, we can add deregulation, diffusion of knowledge and the importance of civil society, to extend the definition.
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6.
Good governance
is a normative term describing how the
governance
quality should be
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7.
Concept related to the responsibility of governments to meet citizens’ needs and promote aspects such as competence, equity, participation, pluralism, transparency, accountability, openness and respect for law, and protection of human rights in the
governance
process.
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The Definitions of
good governance
may vary. However, the
good governance
in human rights context is the
governance
that recognize citizens’ fundamental rights; respects human rights, rule of law, participation, politics of responsibility, transparency and accountability in political and institutional processes, efficient public sector, legitimacy, access to knowledge and information, education, political empowerment of people, equity, sustainability, multiculturalism and values that may foster positive changes for the betterment.
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9.
Governance
refers to the manner in which power is exercised by governments in managing a country’s natural resources especially land. It simply means: the process of decision making and the process by which decisions are implemented concerning the management of resources such as land. The concept of
governance
includes formal as well as informal actors involved in decision-making and implementation of decisions made, and the formal and informal structures that have been set in place to arrive at and implement the decision.
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10.
It is defined by characteristics such as Accountability, Transparency, Legitimacy and voice (focus on participation and consensus orientation), strategic vision, Lack of arbitrariness, Ethics and Integrity, Equity (fairness and rule of law), Performance (focus on responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness).
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11.
The processes and structures that guide political and socio-economic relationships, with particular reference to a set of eight major characteristics: participation, consensus, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiency, inclusiveness and the rule of law.
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