Diagnostic Tools for Governance in Fragile States : Lessons, Trends and Suggestions
The purpose of this issues note is to review the experience in and outside the World Bank of using different diagnostic tools in fragile state situations. It will identify trends in the use of such tools, lessons learnt, and arrive at suggestions f...
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ACCOUNTABILITY AGGREGATE ANALYSIS AMBITION ANTICORRUPTION ANTICORRUPTION STRATEGY AUTHORITY BANKS BUSINESS COMMUNITY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CITIZEN CIVIL SERVICE CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL WAR COALITIONS CONSENSUS CONSTITUTION CORRUPT CORRUPTION COUNTRY GOVERNANCE COUNTRY RANKINGS DATA COLLECTION DEFICITS DEFINITION OF GOVERNANCE DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEMOCRATIZATION DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ELECTORAL SYSTEM ELECTORAL SYSTEMS FINANCE MANAGEMENT FOREIGN POLICY FORMAL INSTITUTIONS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES GOVERNANCE DIAGNOSTIC GOVERNANCE ENVIRONMENT GOVERNANCE ISSUES GOVERNANCE PROBLEMS GOVERNANCE QUALITY GOVERNANCE REFORM GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT LEGITIMACY HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVING GOVERNANCE INCOME INEQUALITY INFORMAL PRACTICES INITIATIVE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JUSTICE LEADERSHIP LEGITIMACY LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE LOCAL BUSINESS LOCAL GOVERNANCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS LOW INCOME COUNTRIES MEDIA NATIONAL PLANNING NATIONS PEER REVIEW POLICE POLICY CHOICES POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY OUTCOMES POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ANALYSIS POLITICAL CONFLICT POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ELITE POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL STABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEM POOR GOVERNANCE POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY QUALITY OF GOVERNANCE QUALITY OF PUBLIC REFORM AGENDA REFORM PROGRAM REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION RULE OF LAW SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL STRUCTURES SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STATE COLLAPSE STATE INSTITUTIONS TECHNOCRATIC APPROACH TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPARENCY VESTED INTERESTS VIOLENCE WORLDWIDE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS |
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ACCOUNTABILITY AGGREGATE ANALYSIS AMBITION ANTICORRUPTION ANTICORRUPTION STRATEGY AUTHORITY BANKS BUSINESS COMMUNITY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CITIZEN CIVIL SERVICE CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL WAR COALITIONS CONSENSUS CONSTITUTION CORRUPT CORRUPTION COUNTRY GOVERNANCE COUNTRY RANKINGS DATA COLLECTION DEFICITS DEFINITION OF GOVERNANCE DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEMOCRATIZATION DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ELECTORAL SYSTEM ELECTORAL SYSTEMS FINANCE MANAGEMENT FOREIGN POLICY FORMAL INSTITUTIONS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES GOVERNANCE DIAGNOSTIC GOVERNANCE ENVIRONMENT GOVERNANCE ISSUES GOVERNANCE PROBLEMS GOVERNANCE QUALITY GOVERNANCE REFORM GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT LEGITIMACY HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVING GOVERNANCE INCOME INEQUALITY INFORMAL PRACTICES INITIATIVE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JUSTICE LEADERSHIP LEGITIMACY LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE LOCAL BUSINESS LOCAL GOVERNANCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS LOW INCOME COUNTRIES MEDIA NATIONAL PLANNING NATIONS PEER REVIEW POLICE POLICY CHOICES POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY OUTCOMES POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ANALYSIS POLITICAL CONFLICT POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ELITE POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL STABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEM POOR GOVERNANCE POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY QUALITY OF GOVERNANCE QUALITY OF PUBLIC REFORM AGENDA REFORM PROGRAM REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION RULE OF LAW SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL STRUCTURES SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STATE COLLAPSE STATE INSTITUTIONS TECHNOCRATIC APPROACH TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPARENCY VESTED INTERESTS VIOLENCE WORLDWIDE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS Hyden, Goran Agborsangaya -Fiteu, Ozong Diagnostic Tools for Governance in Fragile States : Lessons, Trends and Suggestions |
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The purpose of this issues note is to
review the experience in and outside the World Bank of using
different diagnostic tools in fragile state situations. It
will identify trends in the use of such tools, lessons
learnt, and arrive at suggestions for the future. Because
governance has continued to be a major concern in the
international community, over the years this has led to a
growing diversity in the application of the concept. With
this diversification the types of assessment in use have
also increased, a process that reflects two things. First,
each agency tends to design an assessment to meet its own
program needs. Second, diagnostic tools have often fallen
short of expectations leading agencies to develop new ones,
including more recently political economy studies that go
beyond what was at least until recently mainstream types of
assessing governance. Accepting the diversity of definitions
and assessments, this note does not intend to review the
whole field. A diagnostic tool here refers to the approach
and methodology used in assessing governance. Choice of tool
has a direct bearing on how an activity is designed and
carried out. Making the right choice, therefore, is
important. A tool may become 'main stream' and the
original rationale for its use disappears. It is applied
because everyone else is using it or there is pressure to
use the same tool as others. A shift to other tools,
however, may become necessary because existing tools do not
deliver. Such a shift is occurring in the governance field
where a focus on institutions is being increasingly
complemented, if not replaced, by a studies of underlying
political economy factors. This Note tries to trace this
process by highlighting both specific and more general
experiences with tools used to assess governance. Fragile
states or situations are not typical but they give rise to
governance challenges that more than other contexts test the
limits of particular tools. This becomes an especially
important issue given that what works in countries that are
not fragile seems to fall short of the same achievement in
fragile situations. |
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Hyden, Goran Agborsangaya -Fiteu, Ozong |
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Hyden, Goran Agborsangaya -Fiteu, Ozong |
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Hyden, Goran |
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Diagnostic Tools for Governance in Fragile States : Lessons, Trends and Suggestions |
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Diagnostic Tools for Governance in Fragile States : Lessons, Trends and Suggestions |
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Diagnostic Tools for Governance in Fragile States : Lessons, Trends and Suggestions |
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Diagnostic Tools for Governance in Fragile States : Lessons, Trends and Suggestions |
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Diagnostic Tools for Governance in Fragile States : Lessons, Trends and Suggestions |
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diagnostic tools for governance in fragile states : lessons, trends and suggestions |
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okr-10986-272782021-04-23T14:04:41Z Diagnostic Tools for Governance in Fragile States : Lessons, Trends and Suggestions Hyden, Goran Agborsangaya -Fiteu, Ozong ACCOUNTABILITY AGGREGATE ANALYSIS AMBITION ANTICORRUPTION ANTICORRUPTION STRATEGY AUTHORITY BANKS BUSINESS COMMUNITY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CITIZEN CIVIL SERVICE CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL WAR COALITIONS CONSENSUS CONSTITUTION CORRUPT CORRUPTION COUNTRY GOVERNANCE COUNTRY RANKINGS DATA COLLECTION DEFICITS DEFINITION OF GOVERNANCE DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEMOCRATIZATION DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ELECTORAL SYSTEM ELECTORAL SYSTEMS FINANCE MANAGEMENT FOREIGN POLICY FORMAL INSTITUTIONS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES GOVERNANCE DIAGNOSTIC GOVERNANCE ENVIRONMENT GOVERNANCE ISSUES GOVERNANCE PROBLEMS GOVERNANCE QUALITY GOVERNANCE REFORM GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT LEGITIMACY HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVING GOVERNANCE INCOME INEQUALITY INFORMAL PRACTICES INITIATIVE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JUSTICE LEADERSHIP LEGITIMACY LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE LOCAL BUSINESS LOCAL GOVERNANCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS LOW INCOME COUNTRIES MEDIA NATIONAL PLANNING NATIONS PEER REVIEW POLICE POLICY CHOICES POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY OUTCOMES POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ANALYSIS POLITICAL CONFLICT POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ELITE POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL STABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEM POOR GOVERNANCE POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY QUALITY OF GOVERNANCE QUALITY OF PUBLIC REFORM AGENDA REFORM PROGRAM REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION RULE OF LAW SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL STRUCTURES SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STATE COLLAPSE STATE INSTITUTIONS TECHNOCRATIC APPROACH TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPARENCY VESTED INTERESTS VIOLENCE WORLDWIDE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS The purpose of this issues note is to review the experience in and outside the World Bank of using different diagnostic tools in fragile state situations. It will identify trends in the use of such tools, lessons learnt, and arrive at suggestions for the future. Because governance has continued to be a major concern in the international community, over the years this has led to a growing diversity in the application of the concept. With this diversification the types of assessment in use have also increased, a process that reflects two things. First, each agency tends to design an assessment to meet its own program needs. Second, diagnostic tools have often fallen short of expectations leading agencies to develop new ones, including more recently political economy studies that go beyond what was at least until recently mainstream types of assessing governance. Accepting the diversity of definitions and assessments, this note does not intend to review the whole field. A diagnostic tool here refers to the approach and methodology used in assessing governance. Choice of tool has a direct bearing on how an activity is designed and carried out. Making the right choice, therefore, is important. A tool may become 'main stream' and the original rationale for its use disappears. It is applied because everyone else is using it or there is pressure to use the same tool as others. A shift to other tools, however, may become necessary because existing tools do not deliver. Such a shift is occurring in the governance field where a focus on institutions is being increasingly complemented, if not replaced, by a studies of underlying political economy factors. This Note tries to trace this process by highlighting both specific and more general experiences with tools used to assess governance. Fragile states or situations are not typical but they give rise to governance challenges that more than other contexts test the limits of particular tools. This becomes an especially important issue given that what works in countries that are not fragile seems to fall short of the same achievement in fragile situations. 2017-06-20T21:49:23Z 2017-06-20T21:49:23Z 2011-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/186101468160519863/Diagnostic-tools-for-governance-in-fragile-states-lessons-trends-and-suggestions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27278 English en_US Conflict, Crime and Violence Issue Note; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research |