What Is The Good Governance?
Issue 302
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By Abdirizak Ahmed Toor
The fact is that very little positive community development is known to occur without Good governance.
We regard “good governance” as such that should help to achieve self-reliance development and social justice.
- Good governance can therefore be understood as comprising the concepts of people being the stake holders, and governmental mechanisms that operate most effectively and efficiently.
- The key premise is that the ideal orientation is dependent on the expert of its involvement with the society’s build up. Elements contributing got this includes accountability of the government, the securing of human rights, local autonomy and devolution of power.
- The functioning of the government depends of whether a government has the requisite political and administrative structures and mechanisms and the capability to function effectively and efficiently.
- Elements contributing to good governance include the basic institutions of a nation, the administrative competence and transparency, decentralization of its administration, and the creation of an appropriate market environment.
- These are needed to support people’s participation in every aspect of the economy, and society. These are therefore necessary components of good governance as “the government functioning as the basis for participatory development”
The relationship between participatory development and good governance:-
- Participatory development and good governance are related in the following way: clearly then participatory development, with its central focus on raising the quality of participation by local societies and achieving self-reliance and sustainable development.
- Good governance is the foundation of participatory development in as much as it provides the government mandate its direction to promote participation and to create an environment in which participatory processes take place.
- Yet good governance as a function of government does not refer solely to support participatory development: as participatory processes evolve, good governance develops into such functioning that supports wider and more mature people’s participation.
- In this sense, participatory development promotes good governance in its turn.
- A shift is also occurring in development strategies, away from a single focus on economic growth and toward greater emphasis on participatory development.
- Yet in consideration of the present widening disparities in developing countries, it is necessary to review past methods of promoting economic and social development in developing communities.
I wish Somaliland government will be like that soon and they will understand our leaders how to handling the good governance.
Abdirizak Ahmed Toor
(Abdirizak diinaari)
Pakistan, Islamabad
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