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Good Governance
Good Governance
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Good Governance: This program strives to enhance the democratic participation and accountability of the people and the government. The program facilitates dialogue, collaboration, and advocacy among civil society, media, and public institutions. The program also monitors and evaluates the implementation of policies and programs that affect the people's rights and welfare. Some of the outcomes of this program include: strengthening the capacity and voice of civil society organizations, increasing the transparency and responsiveness of public officials, influencing the policy-making and budgeting processes, and ensuring the respect for human rights and rule of law.
Governance can be defined from a wide range of perspectives. According to the Mo-Ibrahim Foundation “governance is the provision of political, social and economic public goods and services that every citizen has the right to expect from their government, and that a government has the responsibility to deliver to its citizens.”1
For the sake of this discussion, we view governance as a set of systems and processes where society is organized and led towards attaining its ambitions. It includes mechanisms through which policy and institutional frameworks interact to ensure the government delivers its mandate and is accountable to its people. For post-Genocide Rwanda, one cannot differentiate the link between governance and the imperative need to reconstruct a state where citizens regain hope, are reconciled, embrace justice, and lead a decent living.
For any country to be governed, citizens entrust their power to their leaders so they can serve them and ensure their needs and freedoms are satisfied. In our context, for governance to be effective, it must ensure clear pathways are elaborated towards sustainable peace and development through ways and
approaches that transform citizens’ life focusing on the poor and vulnerable. That is what can be viewed as good governance.
But how should this work and who defines what is needed for “us”? Having closely followed Rwanda’s post-genocide governance, I have learned a few lessons which are yardsticks of gaps and opportunities in ensuring efficient governance. However, we maintain that each society choses its own preferences given their history and context.