Strategic Areas of Good Governance

Strategic Areas of Good Governance
Good governance results in to welfare of the people,transparency of the procedures, confidence building,optimum use of resources and accountability of the system and its operators. Good Governance should also include some of the following aspects.

1. Governing Justly and Democratically: The system of governance can improve if there is Citizen participation and access to decision-making by all stake holders which includes the citizens as well as those who are implementing the rules.
Local institutional capacity building and community action results in to better
human resource management of the country.Civil service reforms, training, equitable and cost effective procurement results in to transparency in the procedures.Giving shape to public-private sector relationships and building ethics and integrity into government and its partnerships results in to efficient delivery system which helps in achieving contentment and peace in the society.

Public Finance and Fiscal Reform

Intergovernmental finance; fiscal and administrative decentralization capacities
Budgeting and performance metrics, capital programming, investment planning
Revenue development and forecasting
Accounting and accountability

Anti-Corruption and Rule-of-Law

Anti-corruption practices
Organizational integrity
Administration of criminal justice
Legal reform and trade/investment law

2. Fostering Sustainable Economic Development

The Role of Local Government in Economic Development

Strategic planning for economic growth
Business and enterprise development strategies
Tourism development, management, operations, and promotion
“Diagnostic Clinic” methodology to assess sector opportunities

3. Providing Humanitarian Assistance

Disaster Risk Management

Institutional reform required for disaster management
Post disaster recovery and management

4. Advancing Peace and Security

Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation

Post conflict recovery assistance programs
CGG is committed to working not only for governments, but also in partnership with governments. Rather than entering relationships with governments with preconceived ideas of "what should be," CGG staff and associates try to understand "what is" so that they can help government officials move in directions that they themselves consider desirable and possible.

Decentralization
Increasingly, CGG is called upon to apply its expertise to projects that aim to decentralize fiscal authority to local governments. Intergovernmental fiscal reform is a challenging and complex exercise; reform efforts in most countries are partial and fragmented. Recent work by our Associates has helped clients to:


move beyond simplified textbook solutions to plans that differentiate between the capacities and needs of local governments in the same country or region;
find rigorous methods of determining what levels of resources are needed to ensure that local governments have real capacity - for example, automated information systems, and reasonable staffing levels - to manage fiscal affairs;
differentiate and coordinate the roles of multiple governmental entities, both local and national, to eliminate the inefficiencies that result from overlapping authority;
link fiscal reform to broader administrative changes needed to facilitate sustainable governance reform; and
open up fiscal decision making processes by developing methods for officials to account accurately for the management of public resources, and to regularly communicate this information to the public and the media.

Economic Freedom
One of the most fundamental issues of governance is how local governments and other local stakeholders – private businesses, community-based associations, NGOs and donors – can work together to enable sustainable economic growth that will increase job and business opportunities and reduce poverty. In particular, the role of local government in economic development is evolving quickly, and it is multi-faceted, encompassing a number of key responsibilities for which CGG can provide technical assistance and training:

Advocacy – acting as a coherent voice for economic development for the city or region
Planning and Policy – providing oversight related to economic growth
Investment – guiding the allocation of public resources for economic development
Partnering – creating new public-public partnerships to advance key projects/programs.
Nurturing Entrepreneurship – providing assistance for local business start-ups/expansions.
Human Resource Development – planning for the workforce of the future
Community Participation – liaising with appropriate community interests
Project Management – effectively directing economic growth initiatives

Strategy, System and Planning

One of the most common activities in the management is planning.Planning gives direction for achieving organisational goal.Plan also activate the organisational system to ensure the system and sub systems follow that direction. Systems have inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes. System to perform requires inputs, resources such as raw materials, money, technologies and people. These inputs go through a process resulting in to achieving the goals set for the system. Outputs are tangible results produced by processes in the system, such as products or services for the client. Systems can be the entire organization, or its departments, groups, processes, etc.The process of planning includes planners functioning and thinking strategically backwards. They start from the outcomes and outputs,identifies the processes needed to produce the results. Then they identify what inputs (or resources) are needed to carry out the processes.

Planning is carried out care full and may be intuitively. The complexity of the various phases (and their duplication during performance) depend on the scope of the system.It is always advisable to make a plan document so that it can be easily followed and may be repeated.Right strategy and right planning helps in achieving the organisational goals effectively.

Good Governance Administration is a continuous process in which many action&activities are repetitive. Techniques technology& initatives make it interesting

The concept of "governance" is as old as human civilization. "Governance" means:to look after the people with welfare activities.Now a days Governance can be used in several contexts such as corporate governance, international governance, national governance and local governance.
Governance is primarily is a process of policy making, planning and implementation of the decisions. An analysis of governance focuses on the stake holders involved in decision-making and implementing the decisions.The systems and processes followed are equally important.