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Lessons learned from advisory interventions by the Royal Tropical Institute - "Governance" is an ambiguous term that encompasses complex issues and social phenomena, and is closely linked with constructs such as the State, institutions and government. It is important in every aspect of sustainable development, and vital for effective organisations, whatever their size or purpose. Delete the scoop?
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International aid is necessary largely because of the failings of the state (see Sweet sound of global philanthropy): the less public authorities fulfil their basic missions, the more civil society must do for itself. Delete the scoop?
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Jay Naidoo on how to engage citizens in governance and strengthen civil society through open data. What we need is the political will to co-create the tools with citizens and civil society, and to harness the expertise and technology of the marketplace to deliver the services to which our citizens have a right. Delete the scoop?
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Fig. 1. Proposed approach towards co-creating services for citizens Delete the scoop?
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Fragile and transition states need social covenants that build common identity, common values, and a common sense of purpose. Delete the scoop?
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Mandeep Tiwana: People need good living standards but they also need civil and political freedoms to ensure the benefits of development are evenly spread Delete the scoop?
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Governments should introduce a combination of measures to change discriminatory social norms including implementation and enforcement of laws; public awareness and community mobilisation programmes; and economic support for women and incentives. Delete the scoop?
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Tous les jours, nous proposons des solutions à nos partenaires. Nous réfléchissons ensemble aux meilleures façons de procéder pour favoriser le changement. Et nous avons vite fait de proposer celles que nous connaissons parce qu’elles ont fait leurs preuves ou par facilité. Plongés dans nos dossiers, nous oublions que le monde change et qu’il le fait vite. Pendant qu’on réfléchit, l’Afrique continue d’avancer et de trouver elle-même des solutions….dont nous pourrions sans doute plus souvent nous inspirer en Belgique. Delete the scoop?
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It will soon be nearly four years since then San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom visited Twitter headquarters. He told Biz Stone (one of the Twitter founders) about how someone from the city had sent him a Twitter message about a pothole. A discussion about "how we can get Twitter to be involved in advancing, streamlining, and supporting the governance of cities," led to the creation of @SF311 on Twitter that would allow live reporting by citizens of service needs, feedback, and other communication. Delete the scoop?
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The Rwanda National Police (RNP) and the Belgian Development Agency (BTC) yesterday launched the criminal investigation center for excellence, and closed a four-year project of the support to crime investigations. Delete the scoop?
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The Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) is winding down as its five year funding from DFID comes to an end, and I’ve been wading through the 120 page synthesis report as well as the strictly-for-wimps Policy Brief. Both are entitled ‘Development as a collective action problem: Addressing the real challenges of African governance’. Delete the scoop?
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Many of you ask what the most popular resources on the open data sites are. I can usually offer a rough answer, but I thought I'd take a moment to respond to the question properly. Delete the scoop?
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Evidence is piling up on the need to revisit the standard ‘supply’ versus ‘demand’ concept of how to improve governance for development. This is pointing to an exciting set of new priorities for reform in sub-Saharan Africa. Delete the scoop?
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Limits is about why change doesn’t happen, and how it could. It synthesizes the ‘groundswell’ of disquiet about the failure of the governance and institutional reforms that have been promoted for many years now by aid agencies like the World Bank. And it’s not just a whinge – there are plenty of ideas for how aid agencies can do better. The book is particularly useful for those working on fragile states – lots of the positive examples (as well as some failures) come from Afghanistan, Ivory Coast and elsewhere, although there is a bit of ‘why can’t everywhere be more like Rwanda?’ in there too. Delete the scoop?
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Niger’s new development strategy, the Economic and Social Development Plan, is also intended to guide international development cooperation. Environmental governance of uranium mining, the country’s by far largest single economic activity, appears hitherto to have constituted a ‘blind spot’ for environmentally oriented development cooperation Delete the scoop?
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The crisis in Mali is also a crisis of extraverted development and state-building, or what a Belgian aid worker based in Bamako once called "donor-driven ownership" - that is, international efforts to build a state committed to their definition of development and efficient management through foreign aid, conditionalities and daily contacts with African governments. Delete the scoop?
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Op 14 maart jongstleden werd in Mexico Stad de jongste editie van het Human Development Report voorgesteld aan de wereldpers. De titel luidt 'The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World.' Ongetwijfeld is de snelle opkomst van enkele voormalige ontwikkelingslanden die hun plaats opeisen in de wereldeconomie één van de belangrijkste trends op wereldvlak Delete the scoop?
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After an impressive turnout in Monday’s presidential elections, one thing is clear about Kenya: citizens are energized and ready to participate in shaping the future of their country. Delete the scoop?
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Niger’s new development strategy, the Economic and Social Development Plan, is also intended to guide international development cooperation. Environmental governance of uranium mining, the country’s by far largest single economic activity, appears hitherto to have constituted a ‘blind spot’ for environmentally oriented development cooperation. It is now time to remove the blinkers and include support to strengthen environmental governance of the mining sector in new programmes to assist Niger in meeting its development challenges Delete the scoop?
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Le Burundi et la Belgique ont signé deux nouvelles conventions spécifiques accordant au total près de cinq millions d'euros pour deux projets destinés à favoriser respectivement la bonne gouvernance et l'amélioration du système des marchés publics, a annoncé lundi l'ambassade de Belgique à Bujumbura. La Coopération technique belge (CTB) et les institutions burundaises se chargeront de la mise en œuvre de ces deux projets, conclut le communiqué. Delete the scoop?
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When we think about the role of the African diaspora in political engagement and policy on the continent, what comes to mind? Not a lot? That's right, we don't usually think about the diaspora in that way at all - or at least I know I didn't until recently. Delete the scoop?
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People's ability to claim their rights is hampered by poorly governed or weak institutions. On the UN's Human Rights Day, we're launching a new tool to help practitioners to plan programmes that put governance considerations at their core. The Right to be Heard Framework: Learning Companion is intended to support Oxfam staff and partners in choosing where and how to build programmes that directly or indirectly address issues of governance. Delete the scoop?
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CHANNELLING development aid directly to local decision-makers sounds like a good plan. Empowering local groups like community clubs and school boards means decisions can reflect actual needs on the ground. It should mean fewer bureaucratic hands in the pot, too. But a new report by two World Bank economists warns against relying on decisions made at the most local level of government. Entrenched elites, bribery and fraud are as much of a problem in village life as they are in big emerging-market bureaucracies. Delete the scoop?
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Should foreign donors care about corruption in developing countries? In my comment on David Cameron’s development vision, I called corruption an Anglo-American fetish. Delete the scoop?
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Aid donors and the international community began to promote their vision of ‘good governance’ with self-assurance. That vision did not exactly fit into a ‘one size fits all’ formula. But the core elements were always liberal democratic. Better governance would follow when states became more democratic, more accountable, more transparent, and more bound by the rule of law. Delete the scoop?
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