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Good governance and a secure environment the key to a prosperous Free State Dr Ian Goldman African Institute for Comm

What is governance?. The exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country's affairs at all levels. It comprises the mechanisms, processes and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their obligations and mediate their differ

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Good governance and a secure environment the key to a prosperous Free State Dr Ian Goldman African Institute for Comm

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    1. Good governance and a secure environment the key to a prosperous Free State Dr Ian Goldman African Institute for Community-Driven Development (formerly Khanya-managing rural change)

    2. What is governance? The exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country's affairs at all levels. It comprises the mechanisms, processes and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their obligations and mediate their differences (UNDP); Governance refers to the process whereby elements in society wield power, authority, influence and enact policies and decisions concerning public life and economic and social development. Governance is a broader notion than 'government' (whose principal elements include the constitution, the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary). Governance involves interaction between these formal institutions and those of civil society. Governance has no automatic normative connotation. However, typical criteria for assessing governance in a particular context might include the degree of legitimacy, representativeness, popular accountability and efficiency with which public affairs are conducted. (International Institute of Administrative Sciences,1996).

    3. Governance for what? Good governance is not value-neutral Governance for efficiency, and/or Governance for transformation What is transformation deracialisation? or Transformation of the economic and social aspects of peoples lives? So what is the burning platform which means we need to change?

    4. The burning platform Much has been achieved since 1994 in terms of water, housing, access to electricity, free health care, access to education However, taking some statistics from Mangaungs IDP: Around 40% of the population is unemployed 28.54% infected with HIV/AIDS

    5. Burning platform 2

    6. Burning platform 3 So we have a major problem to transform peoples livelihoods We inherited design of government system developed to serve 20% of the population, and we are trying to use the same model for 100%, in fact the other 80% It doesnt work Eg model of agricultural extension in Department of Ag designed for 11 000 commercial farmers, who are well organised, well educated, well resourced August 1998 - 207 field staff/1300 staff Is that the right model for peri-urban people, farmworkers, new land reform clients S Korea poorer than Tanzania, Zambia and Ghana in 1960. Now economy 100x that of Zambia

    7. We need to rethink Not just to deracialise But to transform the nature of services, the power relations with clients, the attitude of old and new bureaucrats to clients, the expenditure on front-line services versus support services, the role of civil society, the balance of investment expenditure vs consumptive.

    8. Large scale organisational transformation (Ferlie et al, 1996) the extent of multiple, interrelated change across the system as a whole; the creation of new organisational forms at a sector level; the creation of changes in the services provided and their mode of delivery; the reconfiguration of power relations (eg with clients); the creation of a new culture, ideology and organisational meaning. (Ferlie, E., Ashburner, L., Fitzgerald, L. and Pettigrew, A., (1996): The New Public Management in Action)

    9. So we have to change the nature of the institutions the structures, the modes of service delivery The relationship between government and the people moving away from dependancy, recognition of rights and responsibilities, mutual accountability We have to get beyond the rhetoric to the reality eg participation is talked about a lot how real is it? We have to make a substantial difference on peoples livelihoods, particularly the poor Sustainable livelihoods approach useful in terms of looking at what needs to be done and how

    10. Institutional support for SLs 1999-2000 AICDD did research in Zimbabwe, Zambia and SA (Free State and E Cape) into what needed in terms of institutions to support SLs Used to develop Free State Poverty Strategy Key issue weakness of link between community level and that of local government or service management (micro-meso link) Developed set of 6 key governance issues

    11. Sustainable Livelihoods Approach - principles people-focused strengths-based participatory and responsive (empowering of poor people) holistic micro-macro links (community-local gov-province-centre) partnerships sustainability (economic, environmental, institutional, social) dynamic (and flexible) so learning process approaches commitment to poverty reduction

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