Good Governance and Rural Development in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-93
Author(s):  
Oluwakemi Damola Adejumo-Ayibiowu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Weak Institutions ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
European Colonization

This chapter presents African indigenous knowledge as the missing link in achieving good governance and rural development in Africa. The failure of rural development projects in Africa has mostly been attributed to weak institutions and bad governance. Consequently, good governance has become the cornerstone of donors' development cooperation in Africa since the 1990s. While it is true that African public institutions may be weak, the analysis shows that the West contributed to this problem through European colonization of the continent as well as the imposition of Eurocentric one-size-fit-all reforms of the World Bank on indebted African countries. The chapter argues that to improve governance and rural development in Africa, there are well-established and effective cultural indigenous governance systems in the continent from which we can learn.

Gender Equality – A Feel Good Norm?: Divergence between Rhetoric and Practice in the EU's Development Policy towards the Pacific Islands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katia Schnellecke
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Eu

<p>As one of the world’s largest donors, the European Union provides development assistance to the Pacific Island Countries. At the same time, the EU actively promotes its own values and principles toward the Island Countries as part of the development cooperation with the region. In taking on the role of a norm promoter, the EU promotes its core values in the Pacific region such as democracy, good governance, the rule of law, and also gender equality. The Union is committed the promotion of equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and men. The norm is emphasised and promoted in all development strategies for the Pacific region and in the agreements with the Island countries. But how committed is the EU to gender equality when it comes to the active promotion of the norm in the development projects for the Pacific Islands?  This thesis investigates the divergence between the EU’s rhetoric and practice when it comes to the promotion of gender equality in its development policy towards the Pacific region. An analysis of the Union’s rhetoric promotion of gender equality and practical support of the norm in the development projects for the Pacific region provides clear evidence for a gap between the EU’s intentions and reality. Whereas the norm is actively promoted throughout the EU’s strategies and agreements with the Pacific region, gender equality is neglected in the plans for most of the development projects.  This thesis argues that the successful promotion of gender equality is hindered by internal and external barriers as well as the EU’s fragmented composition into different units and actors, that pursue a policies based on norms as well as for interest-related reasons. The identified divergence between the EU’s intentions and reality has a crucial impact on its role as a norm promoter: it undermines its power as a normative actor and its legitimacy to shape the concept of normal.</p>

Gender Equality – A Feel Good Norm?: Divergence between Rhetoric and Practice in the EU's Development Policy towards the Pacific Islands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katia Schnellecke
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Eu

<p>As one of the world’s largest donors, the European Union provides development assistance to the Pacific Island Countries. At the same time, the EU actively promotes its own values and principles toward the Island Countries as part of the development cooperation with the region. In taking on the role of a norm promoter, the EU promotes its core values in the Pacific region such as democracy, good governance, the rule of law, and also gender equality. The Union is committed the promotion of equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and men. The norm is emphasised and promoted in all development strategies for the Pacific region and in the agreements with the Island countries. But how committed is the EU to gender equality when it comes to the active promotion of the norm in the development projects for the Pacific Islands?  This thesis investigates the divergence between the EU’s rhetoric and practice when it comes to the promotion of gender equality in its development policy towards the Pacific region. An analysis of the Union’s rhetoric promotion of gender equality and practical support of the norm in the development projects for the Pacific region provides clear evidence for a gap between the EU’s intentions and reality. Whereas the norm is actively promoted throughout the EU’s strategies and agreements with the Pacific region, gender equality is neglected in the plans for most of the development projects.  This thesis argues that the successful promotion of gender equality is hindered by internal and external barriers as well as the EU’s fragmented composition into different units and actors, that pursue a policies based on norms as well as for interest-related reasons. The identified divergence between the EU’s intentions and reality has a crucial impact on its role as a norm promoter: it undermines its power as a normative actor and its legitimacy to shape the concept of normal.</p>

scholarly journals The Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Africa: an analysis of selected cases

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2(J)) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Misheck Mutize ◽  
Ejigayhu Tefera
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Stock Exchanges ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Good Corporate Governance ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Effective Cost

Whilst some literature is of the view that; it is nearly impossible to cultivate good corporate governance culture in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), others believe that new strategies of implementing corporate governance systems together with political will can deliver SOEs out of their efficiency doldrums. This paper presents a scientific analysis of the contentious view on the possibility of creating efficient governance mechanisms in SOEs, explores the effective cost for governance failures in SOEs in Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Ethiopia. The paper makes conclusions and recommendation that the determinant factor to the success of SOEs in African countries is underpinned on the response of central government to the challenges of SOEs. Structural reforms, good governance, clear objectives and efficiency requires governments to take a decisive position. As a lasting remedial action, knowing which entities and when to offload them through privatisation, is an option in addressing the governance challenges in African SOEs. For strategic SOEs, the paper recommends that governments should consider listing them on public stock exchanges.

scholarly journals Dilema Birokrasi Dalam Democratic Governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
I Wayan Winarsa
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Coverage ◽  
Sub Saharan

State / public management that is clean from corruption, collusion, nepotism, and management of state / public resources must be transparent, open, more than that every citizen is given access to participate in influencing the management of the way --- participation. Public agencies need to be monitored, for example by Transparency Inter- national for global coverage or Indonesian Corruption Watch for national coverage. Now we have known a lot of “watchdog dogs” like that, including those covering the district / city or even village / village. Good governance is thus synonymous with transparency and participation - democratic governance. This includes the rule of law (rechtsstaatlichkeit and Berechenbarkeit). In approximately 1990 or the late 1980s the World Bank conclud- ed, that anything and any “donations” disbursed to African countries (Sub-Saharan) must be exhausted without a trace. Just like water poured over a hot desert. This phenomenon is referred to by the World Bank as bad governance, meaning poor management (money, resources). This is euphemism for, especially if it’s not corruption.

COMPETENCE APPROACH IN EUROPEAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: ESSENCE AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS (ARCHETYPAL ASPECT)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (14) ◽  
pp. 132-143
Author(s):  
Martha Ivanivna Karpa
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
European Public ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Definition Of

The article reveals the main features of the competence approach in the practice of European public administration. The features of the competence approach in public administration are determined on the basis of analysis of the basic concepts of public administration. In the dynamics of the formation and development of popular theories of interaction between state and local authorities, such as the theory of a free community, community (public) and public and state (the theory of municipal dualism), we can trace a number of characteristic features of a competency approach, which manifests itself both through the general theoretical relations and manifestations, and through the practice of coexistence of public authorities. There is a problem of definition and distribution of public functions as a prerequisite for defining and shaping the competences of public institutions. An important issue in the context of a competent approach is the institutional consolidation of functions in the context of the existence of the basic models of territorial organization of power. In each of the varieties of the Governance concept (Responsive Governance concept, Democratic Governance concept, Good Governance concept), the specifics of the use of competencies are defined. The archetypal symbols in the European public administration are singled out using the analysis of competence in public administration in its main constituents. A brief description of the archetypal aspect of European public administration is given. The main components of competence are shown in connection with the existing archetypal symbols and the characteristic trends of their development. Their connection is shown according to the scheme “the entity component (who?) — the object component (what?) — the administrative component (how?) — the basis (in what environment?)”. Concerning the trends of development of a competence approach in the context of practice and theory of public administration, it is determined that modern concepts of public administration are characterized by shifting the balance between state and public institutions to the sphere of common goals and tasks, and thus responsibility. The joint activity of all subjects of society requires new forms of cooperation, definition of the spheres and subjects of each entity’s activity for effective cooperation, distribution of functions and competences of the entities, formation and consolidation of their status characteristics.

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