Good Governance and Who is Accountable to Whom?

The concept of governance is as old as theultimately has raised new debate that...
civilization of man, which is nothing but the nameWho Is Accountable To Whom?
of the process by which the task of decisionWe are strongly in favor of independence of
making is done by the stakeholders of theinstitutions without interference but at the same
society, which also include the implementation oftime keeping cheeks and balances is also our
these decisions and also not implementation.requirement that can never be set a sited. The
While making the decisions many factors playperfect and the original platform, which ultimately
their role which ultimately make a governance ahave jurisdiction, are a journal public and a
good one or bad one. All the formal and informalcommon man. More specifically speaking...
factors provide us the structure that leads usAn Institution Is Accountable To Whom Who Are
toward the implementation of decisions.Going To Be Affected By Its Decisions And Upon
After amalgamation of the nations and afterWhom Their Decisions Are Going To Be
formation of the global village the survival ofImplemented.
nations is not an easy task. Now man is muchSince the decision of every pillar e.g. judiciary,
more dependent upon other as it was neverexecutive, legislation, directly or otherwise effect
before. Now at a state level and also at globala common man. So a government should be
level if man wants its survival, progress andaccountable for general public for effective and
respect then he needs to insure good governancegood governance.
at every level. He needs to focus on local,Election or revolution is the only available options
national, corporate and ultimately on thefor a common man. These two factors possess
international governance.the immense importance in a society. If the elite
The most interesting at the same time the mostof the society fail to give priority elections of
important aspect which I would like to mentionpublic. Simply if government by election fail in a
here, now prudence of man has reached to thatsense of good governance then it will ultimately
ultimate point of view that bad governance is thelead us to revolution of common man, where
root cause of all the evils with in societies. No onetheir left no option for so called elite. This is not
even wishes to help where bad governance isthe fiction, it happened and can be happened
found; E.g. Major donors and the financialtoday.
institutions have based their aid and loan on theThe eight factors of Good governance and
condition of the good governance.importance of accountability among rest, gives us
Good governance moves around the circle ofan ideal state which can never be seen
eight factors that can never be ignored andeverywhere. No doubt we have made revolutions
missing of anyone shell never fulfill the beauty ofin science, technology, industry, medical, etc.... but
the requirement of good governance.unfortunately we are still living in the Stone Age
1. Participation of every class of society.but in other sense. Every society wants to
Irrespective of gender, color, or race etc. the keyprogress, like to have peace etc. then why
of differentiation should be knowledge.institutions of developing nations are not
2. Rule of law in its truth sense. Simply which aaccountable to public as institutions of developed
common man can understand. Law should not benations are? Why the good governance in the
misused for the protection of the elite. Rule ofpoor states is not in the best interest of big
law always require independent judiciary, impartialpowers? Why in this small global village 70% are
and uncorrupted police force.facing shortage of food and rest 30% are
3. Transparency at every stage. Mean making ofpossessing three hundred percent more then
decisions and their implementation should alwaysthere needs?
be done in a manner that provided by law, also inAll these questions gives rise to the need of
the prescribed manner or followed by rules and"International Good Governance" the inventions of
regulations.21 century are not going to increase respect of
4. Good governance requires that thehumanity, there is huge difference between
stakeholders should give importance to find thatknowledge and information that should be kept in
what is in the best interest of society and howmind while making any decision. We are the big
this can be achieve. Personal benefits should neveradvocates of global world, Then why we are not
be given priority over the society.secure as we were in past. The historical
5. Strong and effective government as therevolution of our planet is witness that nothing is
government is the major actor in the governance.beyond the power of a common man.
At the same time strong and effective oppositionTransparency, Rule of law accountability may lead
should follow it.us an ideal society. Which is ultimately the result
6. Equities the factor of the immense importance.of good governance. It is the right of every
No society can progress without ensuring verycommon man and every stakeholder is duty
member of it that you have stake in the society.bound for it.
If you successes to keep every clause in theSo after all the above discussions we may say
main stream towards the progress no power inthat good governance is key requirement for an
this world can even thing defeat you.ideal society, which is difficult to get totally. Only
7. Good governance means that process byfew countries have came close to good
which institutions produces results that meat thegovernance. At the same time we the human
needs of society while making the best use ofbeings are responsible for its non-achievement we
resources at their disposal. Concept of efficiencycannot give better future to our coming
is the contest of the good governance, which alsogeneration by this way. We are wasting the
covers the sustainable use of resources, and theirnatural resources, we are facing the huge giant of
prevention as well.corruption in our institutions, and our common
8. The key requirement of good governance isman is striving for food our governments fail
accountability. Without this anyone can restrict aeven to provide food. Education is the
man doing some thing wrong. Every stakeholderfundamental right of every citizen but it is not
should be accountable for the welfare of commoneasy to educate our new generation. Why?
man and for society collectively.Our survival is in the good governance if you
Amount all the key requirement accountab8ilitywant to progress and wants to meet the
may be called mother of all. Since now a day thechallenges of global village we have to clean our
state structure is really a complex one whichinstitutions by every notorious element.