Development linked governance has been an issue much debated in the contemporary world. Many of the arguments found in the literature of the first and second chapters are beneficial when assessing good governance hypothesis. Under the fdre, urban land is governed and administrated by the urban land leasehold. In ethiopia, urban land administration is often perceived as one of the most corrupt sectors in public administration yiadom, et al. The second and last part of the article attempts to sort out the major challenges that have prevented the realization of good governance in ethiopia during the reign of eprdf in the last two decades. The major military, if not the political, forces responsible for the demise of the dictatorship known as the. Over the last few years, the african development bank group the bank has given due recognition to the issue of good governance for two main reasons. The ethiopian peoples revolutionary democratic front holds 100 percent of the. Lets start from definitions used by intergovernmental organizations. Good governance in the public sector consultation draft.
Ethiopias 2015 civil society organization sustainability score was the second lowest in subsaharan africa. In fact, because the two concepts rely on very different criteria, it is not clear that, in the discourse, good governance includes democracy. The role of parliament in promoting good governance 3 executive summary in the 21st century, there is growing interest more than ever before in issues related to democracy and good governance around the world. With its rising economic growth and a growing youth population, ethiopias current transition to a democratic and. It reports a slight imbalance between the four areas contributing to the index. Sound governance, taken a step further, is a subset of.
Governance embraces all of the methodsgood and badthat societies use to distribute power and manage public resources and problems. Good governance is a new approach that includes all the principles necessary for the consolidation of democratic management. Pdf this research bridges two wellestablished bodies of literature. Good governance on the ground in ethiopia global journal. One such area of concern is the growing criminalization of politics in the saarc south asian association for regional cooperation member countries, which in my opinion constitutes today a serious threat and challenge to both democracy and good governance. The significance and practice of good governance in addis ababa.
Ethiopia, after a long years tradition of centralized government and governance structure, a decentralized form. Democracy and good governance post 1991 in ethiopia. Federal democratic republic of ethiopia, ministry of health, 2003 and 2010. Epdrf ethiopian peoples democratic revolutionary front. The central objective of this study is to examine democratization process and evaluate the performance of good governance post 1991in. Millennium development goal was democracy and good governance. Good governance appears to be the heart of democratic values and principles which includes participation, effectiveness and efficiency, transparency. Selassie in may 1991, the much hated and brutal militarymarxist dictatorship that traumatized ethiopians for seventeen years was finally overthrown. First, there is the academic approach, which focuses mainly on the study of. These factors proved variances of good governance in hrm of the local governments in thailand at 60.
In the modern world, democracy has developed from the american and french revolutions. Governance can be viewed from social, political and economic perspectives. A competent management of a countrys resources and affairs. Stability, good governance, and rule of law are essential for continued economic growth and social development in ethiopia, one of the poorest and populous countri es in the world. Governance is the deliberate and conscious management of regime structures for enhancing the public realm. Factors affecting the achievement of good governance in. A governance approach highlights issues of state responsiveness and accountability, and the. Governance is the process of decisionmaking and the process by which decisions are implemented or not implemented.
The quest for good health governance through decentralization in ethiopia. It is intended to make the teaching and learning process a. To achieve this purpose, the researcher employed qualitative methodology. The challenges of leadership and governance in africa. What is difference between democracy and good governance. Addis ababa university school of graduate studies aauetd. An assessment of the challenges and prospects of good. Gghrp good governance and human rights program gjd governing justly and democratically gog government of ghana. We would all be better off, and citizens of many developing countries would be much better off, if public life were conducted within institutions that were fair, judicious, transparent, accountable, participatory. Rule of law, the fight against crimes against humanity, and human rights which includes. Role of civics and ethical education for the development. Good governance requires fair legal frameworks that are enforced by an impartial.
This article tries to explain, as simply as possible, what governance and good governance means. Good governance with checks and balances in ethiopia getachew. First, from broader perspective, good governance, which promotes accountability, transparency, rule of law and. Good governance the concept in the last twenty years, the concepts of governance and good governance have become widely used in both the academic and donor communities. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of civics and ethical education in building the good behaviour of citizens and making them active participants in the development of democratic governance in ethiopia. The 1989 world bank study, subsaharan africa from crisis to sustainable growth 1, indicated good governance as a public service that is efficient, a judicial system that is reliable, and an administration that is accountable to the public.
The aim of good governance in the public sector international framework is to encourage better service delivery and improved accountability by establishing a benchmark for good governance in the public sector. Benevolent leaders who appeared at different times in its long history could not overcome or right the wrongs done by brutal rulers. The regional action program of the promotion of democracy and good governance comprises three subprograms and five protocols. The ethiopian peoples revolutionary democratic front holds 100 percent of the seats in parliament and has continued its ambitious development agenda, yet.
Regression model measuring the effect of democracy on good governance. The objective of this article is to illuminate the interrelationship among the three triumvirate concepts. Abstract the purpose of this paper was to assess the challenges of good governance in ethiopia. Tilburg university the quest for good health governance through. The note then goes on to assess some key causal linkages between democracy and development in section iii, discussing in particular modernisation theory and the emergence of democracy. The democracy in ethiopia when we compare to its past history. The governance reform agenda is strong, but its success will largely depend on the adequacy of implementation capacity, political commitment, and incentives of the different actors.
This is a reflectionof the increasing acceptance of the fact. The ethiopia democracy and its challenges and achievements. Sound corporate governance is grounded in the antithesis of the socalled revolutionary democracy. The concept good governance emerged as a development agenda by world bank twenty years ago. Despite the move to institutions, neoliberal policies still dominate the banks philosophy, leaving the good governance agenda marketcentric rather than statecentric.
Good governance implies presence of rule of law, safeguard of human rights, and existence of honest and efficient government, accountability, transparency, predictability and openness. The regional center on democracy, good governance, human rights and civic education. Problems and prospects for democracy by alemante g. Good governance, national defense, transparency, accountability, fairness. Governance, in the world of globalization and competition, matters in accelerating development and in reducing poverty particularly in most developing. The papers contribution to the literature is twofold. Challenges and prospects for constitutional democracy in ethiopia. Civil society, democracy and good governance in africa article pdf available in ceu political science journal 41. Governance in this context can apply to corporate, international, national, or local governance as well as the.
Accountable public officials must be answerable for government behaviour, and be responsive. Ethiopian experiences at democracy introduction over its long history different regions of ethiopia had one or the other type of governance. Good governance can be exercised on the following levels. These principles can be stated as participation, transparency, accountability, effectiveness, consistency, fairness and rule of law.
Doc the role of democracy, good governance and rule of. The landmark of good governance in order to bring sustainable development in ethiopia was the ratification of 1995 federal democratic republic of ethiopia. This paper explores what constitutes good governance and what has been missing in. By path analysis, we obtained the model that fits the evident data and satisfies the fixed criteria of goodness of fit measures of the model.
The landmark of good governance in order to bring sustainable development in. The brief about ethiopian good governance and continuation. Family community government local and national regional and international 8 good governance principles for leaders and institutions 1. In greek demos means the community and kratos means sovereign power i. This module is the first part of the course on governance and development. Indeed, good governance is pivotal to the development process. In general, according to seppanene 2003, good governance is about democracy, transparency, equality, property rights, combating corruption, self. The quest for good governance in the ethiopian public sector. Thus, from formal perspectives, it seems ethiopia is an emerging democracy. Ethiopian people democratic revolutionary democratic front. In the first part of the article, i outlined the major policy framework constraints that prevented the emergence of well functioning system of good governance in ethiopia. Rule of law, democracy and good governance, on the one hand and their contributions towards an endeavour to realize sustainable development in.
In international development, good governance is a way of measuring how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources in a preferred way. Ethiopias human development index score has steadily increased over the past decade, but its participation and human rights score has remained stagnant. These two traditions have dissimilar conceptualisations. Ethiopia s human development index score has steadily increased over the past decade, but its participation and human rights score has remained stagnant. Therefore, the quest for good leadership is a sinequanon for governance and sustainable development. It is among other things participatory, transparent and accountable. Pdf civil society, democracy and good governance in africa. Route for sustainable development in ethiopia academic journals. The brief about ethiopian good governance and continuation issue what ethiopia was fought to have a todays an authentic good governance and potentiality of individual leaderships like a prime minister of current ethiopia and other many confidential leaders that have the wish for the common good of its people and country at heart. While election of new leadership of the ruling party has brought forth a surge of optimism in most quarters that democratic space will expand, stability is still fragile as ethnic and identitybased conflict prevails. Democracy, human rights, and governance ethiopia u. The role of parliament in promoting good governance. Nor do discussions of good governance usually mention elections, whether democratic or otherwise.