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Governance should be monitored regularly. More investment is needed to monitor specific, actionable indicators, such as quality of public financial management, procurement practices, and checks and balances. This monitoring can help to track progress, generate greater accountability, and build demand for good governance. It can also help underpin long-term dialogue between countries and development partners, which should develop realistic goals and sequencing of governance reforms. Good governance is everyone’s responsibility. International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and donors should support the emerging global framework for good governance, encourage country participation, strengthen their own anticorruption controls, and provide assistance in ways that strengthen transparency and country systems. The Global Monitoring Report 2006 identifies and explains governance as an essential element of the mutual accountability framework, and provides a platform to include governance as an ongoing part of MDG monitoring. Public sector governance is the way the state acquires and exercises its authority to provide and manage public goods and services, including regulatory services. While governance is often used as a euphemism for corruption, a country's governance system comprises the full array of state institutions and the arrangements that shape the relations between the state and society. Governance and corruption are not the same thing Governance and corruption often are used synonymously. But they are quite different concepts—and conflating them can be very damaging. Public sector governance refers to the way the state acquires and exercises the authority to provide and manage public goods and services—including both public capacities and public accountabilities. Corruption is an outcome. It is a consequence of the failure of any of a number of accountability relationships that characterize a national governance system—from a failure of the citizen-politician relationship (which can lead to state capture) to a failure of bureaucratic and checks and balances institutions (which can lead to administrative corruption). Fighting corruption requires strengthening governance system across its core dimensions. |
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