Download Open Governance, Good Governance and new models of

“ADRESSING THE CHALLENGE
OF GOOD GOVERNANCE”
KICHR, Sudan
18 & 19/12/06
Nicos Kalatzis
Research Associate -Themistokles & Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation
&
Expert on Social Policy-The Hellenic Ministry of Economy & Finance
‘Timing’ global focus on ‘G’
• NATIONAL ISSUE:-90’s : International ‘No
competency’
• AWARENCE: 94-97
World Bank: SRSs - Corruption (+11% on G loans)
• MONITORING:2000‘G’ monitoring... assesment
World Bank Definition for G
• “Governance is a policy producing system,
characterized by predictable and transparent
processes,
a bureaucracy permeated by professional ethos,
an executive government sector responsible for its
acts and
a strong civil society participating to public affairs,
as well as by the fact that all of the above happen on
the basis of the State of law”.
UN Definition for G
• “Governance is a process
through which institutions,
corporations and citizen’s groups
organize their interests,
exercise their rights and obligations
and mediate their differences”.
Goverment and Governance (G)
• Goverment = control,
ultimately impose coersion,
• G= steering,
because achieving public goods via
coordinating, mediating, mobilizing,
co-shaping
Goverment and G (con.)
• Govermement as sole competency of politicoadministrative structures, state’s sovereign will
• G cooperation among different governmental and
non-governmental actors with diverse interests.
(state, market, civil society)
Directions for Administrative
Reform 90s and 00s• -mid80’s: introducing
market logic and marketmaking policies
• -mid 90’s: G non legally
(but costly)binding
instruments
1.steer,
guide coprorate and
civic actors action plans
• 1.New Public Management
(NAP
on
poverty),
2.
(MBO - TQM)
Open method of
• 2. ‘quasi-market’ &
coordination ,
Privatisation
benchmarking(on socioeconomic governance),
Why adress G? Driving Forces
• Spectacular increase of financial flows to non
developped Countries
• Un-effectiveness of development assistance (importsubsituting)
• epistemic shift: ‘institutional economics’ and
‘democratic theory’
‘Mapping’ major international
initiatives on G
• W.B. ‘leading role’:
from awareness to
1.‘horizontal’
expertise on Local G
and post-crisis &
• 2.monitoring:
Indicators
• UNDP- DAC/OECD
‘Join Forces’:
1.‘tailor-made’ G
strategies
• 2.2005 ‘Initiative on
Good G in the Arab
Countries’
Commitment of the
African Countries
World Bank G Indicators
• Objective: ‘Ranking’ through unified
indicators
• Coverage: 200 countries
• Variables: 350 objective/estimations
• diffused and Widely used by international
public and corporate organizations
World Bank Indicators ‘Clusters’
• 6 areas of G:
 Expression of opinion and accountability
 Political stability and absence of major
violence and terrorism
 Existence of criteria for the measurement of
the efficiency of government...
World Bank Indicators Clusters
 The existence of a system ensuring
legislative and regulatory quality
 The guarantee of the effective function
of the state of law, and
 The existence of institutionalized and
exercised controls for corruption.
G INDICATOR’S (MIS)USE
• Enough Transparency
and long-term
Comparability?
• GDP- G ‘Econometric
Fallacy’?
• How correlate
judgemental VS
objective ones?
• Rating as ‘De facto’
assesment?
Are there altentatives?
• UNDP ‘Oslo
Programme’ :
‘core’ & ‘satellite’
pro-poor and gender
• ‘METAGORA
project’
E.U.
sponsored, Oslo G
Center + Indian
Council+ E.U. M-C:
local statistical
authorities for national
prioritization