Ateneo School of Government
Good Governance Framework
Presented in
Airlangga University
Surabaya, East Java
14 to 15 June 2006
What is Good Governance?
GOOD (from GOVERNANCE (from
Merriam-Webster) Merriam-Webster)
- Something that - the exercise of
is desirable and sovereign authority
beneficial +
- sovereign authority is
- Right Thing power coming from the
people through elections
GOOD GOVERNANCE
- the exercise of sovereign authority that
= is desirable and beneficial to the people
- the right way of exercising sovereign
authority (power from the people)
Why Good Governance
Sovereign = Power from the
Authority people
FOR
PUBLIC GOOD/ VALUE (not for self)
THAT IS WHY WE ARE CALLED
PUBLIC SERVANTS
Not public bosses
Good Governance Framework and Principles
TRANSPARENT AND
LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABLE T S
STYLE R U
CIVIC PARTICIPATION A S
INNOVATIVE N T
And
S A
F I
EFFECTIVE E& N
MANAGEMENT
EFFICIENT EFFECTIVE R A
Service Delivery A B
B L
L E
For
E
PUBLIC TOWARDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION
SERVICE
Note: This framework has been used by the Ateneo School of Government in
judging the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) Best Practices Awards
Why TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE
GOVERNANCE?
Why What is it Examples
Because it Public well informed about the project from Billboards
is public inception to implementation with accurate
TRANSPA- resources project
RENCY you have implementa-
Availability of accurate and up to date
tion info
information about project implementation
AND (Marikina)
Because
you are Public knows were to access information
ACCOUNT- trusted to Text
ABILITY take care of hotlines
it Criteria used for selection of beneficiaries are (Metro Manila
disseminated to the public Cities)
Because it
prevents Information on the selection of beneficiaries is Webpage
corruption disseminated to the public (Naga)
Access to financial reports by the public
Regular progress reports on the projects
Presence of feedback and/ or built-in corrective
mechanisms to obtain inputs from stakeholders
Why the Need for CIVIC PARTICIPATION?
Why What is it Examples
Because you do Presence of functional mechanisms to Citizen’s Board
not know encourage participation and obtain (Naga)
everything feedback from stakeholders
CBDSS (Bago)
CIVIC Because people Involvement of citizens and/ or target
PARTICI- know their needs beneficiaries in the projects of Samal Cultural
PATION from the ground government from situational analysis, Heritage Revival
design, implementation, monitoring,
and evaluation
Because people Samal LSB
are resources
that can help you Ownership of community or target
beneficiaries of the project Participation is
not
Because it ATTENDANCE
empowers SHEET only
people
Why INNOVATION?
Why What is it Examples
Because the Able to aggressively pursue non- Mauswag na
traditional traditional sources of income and Ciudad
INNOVAT- way is not resources (Sorsogon)
ION enough or
does not Able to introduce a new way of doing One Stop Shops
work things to be more responsive and with in cities in the
anymore positive results early days
Because the Creative/ imaginative use of available Municipal bonds
problem of resources to address concrete problems
poverty is a
daunting Some LGUs risk
challenge to a point of
being hailed to
court (e.g.
Bulacan)
Why EFFICIENT GOVERNANCE?
Why What is it Examples
Because Best practical solution and use of resources Mauswag na
resources to address the problem ciudad
are scarce (Sorsogon)
Well-defined objectives with clear targets,
Because outputs and steps to achieve them Samal
EFFIC- public Mariculture
IENCY resources Maximum/optimal use of local resources Park
have been
entrusted Is cost/
to you Activities implemented according to schedule
beneficiary
ratio a good
Presence of functional corrective measure of
mechanisms to address implementation lags efficiency?
Implementation lags solved on time The problem
of Caloocan
Expected reach of the project (number of bonds?
beneficiaries) and intended outcome
commensurable with cost of project
Why EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE?
Why What is it Examples
Because Presence of clear and consistent vision and mission Nueva
it is articulated by the LGU leadership Viscaya and
EFFECT- public Presence of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms its MBN
IVITY resource indicators
to track the effectiveness of the project.
s you Strengthens community collaboration and (Gov.
Impact have Agbayani)
cooperation
of your Strengthens partnership between LGUs and
actions Because Naga and
community
you are Increased income of LGU and or community its Local
-Social trusted Boards
members
- Econo- to take
Improvements in service delivery felt by the
mic care of it Marinduque
community
Active development of network and linkages with copper
Envir- Because mining
other local, national and international institutions
onment people tragedy
Environment friendly and/ or no adverse effects on
are
hoping the environment
From 5th
on you class to a
higher class.
But Why POVERTY ALLEVIATION?
Why What is it Examples
Because it Concrete benefits by the poor and Nueva
POV- is the main vulnerable sectors of community Vizcaya and
problem of its MBN
ERTY the indicators
Does not disenfranchise the poor sector
country
ALLEV- Stopping the
IATION Addresses the needs of the poor
Because it poor from
distributes getting
wealth to Poor are well-targeted as beneficiaries poorer, rich
all and not of the project getting richer!
to a few
Inclusion of impact of project on the
poor considered in the design and
implementation of the project
Where do the other themes come in?
SECURITY?
HUMAN RIGHTS?
HEALTH?
EDUCATION?
LIVELIHOOD?
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
DILEMMA?
CAN ONE BE AN ETHICAL LEADER
AND PROVIDE
BAD GOVERNANCE?
OR
CAN ONE BE AN UNETHICAL LEADER
AND PROVIDE
GOOD GOVERNANCE?
