Promoting Economic Development in Africa Through Accountability and Good Governance
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 36
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Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-01-08
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781983612442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Promoting economic development in Africa through accountability and good governance : hearing before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, June 27, 2002.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
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Published: 2002
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sam Agere
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780850926293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book aims to show that a strong and achieving public service is a necessary condition for a competitively successful nation. The concept of good governance is linked with institutionalised values such as democracy, observance of human rights and greater effectiveness of the public sector.
Author: Mary McNeil
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780821383803
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social Accountability Refers To The Wide Range Of Citizen Actions To hold the state to account, as well as actions on the part of government, media, and other actors that promote or facilitate these efforts. Social accountability strategies and tools help empower ordinary citizens to exercise their inherent rights to hold governments accountable for the use of public funds and how they exercise authority. This book explains what social accountability means in the African context, distilling some common success factors and lessons that can help other practitioners and innovators in the field. Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa presents case studies from a cross-section of countries, drawing on initiatives launched and implemented both by civil society groups and by local and national governments in countries with a wide range of political contexts and cultures. The case studies demonstrate that although social accountability approaches are strongly influenced by many underlying legal, social, cultural, and economic factors, they can still be implemented in difficult political environments (for example, in Zimbabwe). They point to the overriding problem of access to information (Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe) and the low readability of information when it is available (Benin). They demonstrate what can happen when governments and civil society work together to institute accountability measures (Nigeria) and the implementation challenges they face in environments ranging from decentralized (Tanzania) to more centralized (Senegal). Development professionals have traditionally assumed that Africa's governance and service delivery challenges must be addressed from the top down. The reality is the opposite; bottom-up civilian-led social accountability mechanisms have proven to be versatile, adaptable, and highly effective in enhancing development prospects across a number of African countries. This collection of case studies is an invaluable guide to practitioners seeking a better grasp of how to implement and strengthen such mechanisms, and it represents an important contribution to the literature.-James D. Wolfensohn Wolfensohn Fund Management, L.P. Former President, World Bank Group This book provides a succinct exposition of the central role of civil society organizations in governance enforcement through social accountability. I find it a welcome addition to the extant literature on social accountability and its intertwined relationship with good governance and the need for increased public participation of both women and men for improved public service delivery.-Frannie A. LTautier Executive Secretary The African Capacity Building Foundation Harare, Zimbabwe
Author: Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Published: 2015-10-24
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9956763004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in the view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging behind socioeconomically, and its democracy questionable. We admit that a plethora of theories and reasons, including iniquitous and malicious ones, have been conjured in an attempt to explain and answer the questions as to why Africa seems to be lagging behind other continents in issues pertaining to good governance, democracy and socio-economic development. Yet, none of the theories and reasons proffered so far seems to have provided enduring solutions to Africa’s diverse complex problems and predicaments. This book dissects and critically examines the matrix of Africa’s multifaceted problems on governance, democracy and development in an attempt to proffer enduring solutions to the continent’s long-standing political and socio-economic dilemmas and setbacks.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9264183639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is growing recognition of the need for new approaches to the ways in which donors support accountability, but no broad agreement on what changed practice looks like. This publication aims to provide more clarity on the emerging practice.
Author: Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2008-12-31
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 999445532X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →governments and the public at large. --Book Jacket.
Author: Mohamed Sami Ben Ali
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-06-19
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9819924936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book assesses the extent to which good governance may contribute to enhancing economic performance and social welfare in developing countries, globally. Governance has been pointed out as one of the major weaknesses of developing economies and may largely be attributed to weak governance practices at both the macro- and micro-level. This book highlights the channels through which governance may act on various economic sectors and different key economic variables. In doing so, it enables policymakers to identify and implement policies and procedures to promote good governance. This book provides a transnational perspective on good governance in considering developing countries in Asia, Africa and beyond, presenting respective case studies in single country settings, enabling a comparative perspective between and across all chapters. Covering topics that include the intersection between governance and gender, inequality, poverty, education and health, the book provides diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on important issues facing policymakers, investors and other stakeholders and is relevant to graduate students and researchers interest in policy issues in the developing world.