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Unit 3 - Governance

This document defines key terms related to governance, including government, authority, power, and politics. It then discusses three types of authority - traditional, charismatic, and legal - and defines governance. Good governance is characterized as having participation, rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, consensus orientation, equity, effectiveness, and accountability. The UNDP identifies five aspects of sustainable human development that governance affects: empowerment, cooperation, equity, sustainability, and security. The ADB outlines four elements of good governance, while the Institute of Governance lists five principles: legitimacy and voice, direction, performance, fairness, and accountability.

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Unit 3 - Governance

This document defines key terms related to governance, including government, authority, power, and politics. It then discusses three types of authority - traditional, charismatic, and legal - and defines governance. Good governance is characterized as having participation, rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, consensus orientation, equity, effectiveness, and accountability. The UNDP identifies five aspects of sustainable human development that governance affects: empowerment, cooperation, equity, sustainability, and security. The ADB outlines four elements of good governance, while the Institute of Governance lists five principles: legitimacy and voice, direction, performance, fairness, and accountability.

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UNIT III: GOVERNANCE

DEFINITION OF TERMS
Government is the name given to the entity exercising that
authority.
Authority can most simply define as legitimate power
Power is the ability to influence the behavior of others,
authority is the right to do so.
THREE KINDS
OF AUTHORITY
1.Traditional authority is rooted
in history,

2. Charismatic authority stems


from personality

3. Legal-authority is grounded in
a set of impersonal rules
POLITICS is the art of government,
the exercise of control within the
society through the making and
enforcement of collective decisions.
The institutions of the state (the apparatus of the
government, the courts, the police, the army, the society-
security system and so forth) can be regarded as “PUBLIC”
in the sense that they are responsible for the collective
organization of the community life. Moreover, they are
funded at the public’s expense, out of taxation

Institutions such as the family and kinship groups, private


businesses, trade unions, clubs, community groups and so
on that are PRIVATE in the sense that they are set up and
funded by individual citizens
DEFINITIONS OF
GOVERNANCE
1. “The traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised” – Kaufman
et al

2. The way “ … power is exercised through a country’s economic, political, and social
institutions.” – the World Bank’s PRSP Handbook.

3. “The sound exercise of political, economic, and administrative authority to manage a


country’s resources for development. “(Country Governance Assessment 2005).

4. “It comprises mechanisms, processes, and institutions through which citizens and
groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations, and
mediate their differences.” UNDP.

5. “The systems, processes and procedures put in place to steer the direction,
management and accountability of an organization.” Birmingham City Council.

6. When applied to organizations that operate commercially, governance is often termed


"corporate governance promoting fairness, transparency and accountability" – World
Bank.
GOVERNANCE &
SUSTAINABLE HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
There are five aspects to sustainable human development - all affecting the lives of the poor and vulnerable:

1. Empowerment - The expansion of people’s capabilities and choices increases their ability to exercise those choices
free of hunger, want and deprivation. It also increases their opportunity to participate in, or endorse, decision-
making affecting their lives

2. Co-operation - With a sense of belonging important for personal fulfillment, well- being and a sense of purpose and
meaning, human development is concerned with the ways in which people work together and interact.

3. Equity - The expansion of capabilities and opportunities means more than income – it also means equity, such as
an educational system to which everybody should have access.

4. Sustainability - The needs of this generation must be met without compromising the right of future generations to
be free of poverty and deprivation and to exercise their basic capabilities.

5. Security - Particularly the security of livelihood. People need to be freed from threats, such as disease or repression
and from sudden harmful disruptions in their lives.
EIGHT
CHARACTERISTICS OF
GOOD GOVERNANCE
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
PARTICIPATION RULE OF LAW TRANSPARENCY RESPONSIVENESS

CONSENSUS EQUITY/ EFFECTIVENESS/ ACCOUNTABILITY


ORIENTED INCLUSIVENESS EFFICIENCY
FOUR ELEMENTS OF
GOOD GOVERNANCE
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
FIVE PRINCIPLES OF
GOOD GOVERNANCE
Institute of Governance
LEGITIMACY AND VOICE PERFORMANCE

FAIRNESS

DIRECTION ACCOUNTABILITY

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