Accelerating infrastructure development using PPPs
Hee Kong Yong, Adviser (Public-Private Partnerships) Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are not recent inventions. Using private funds for public works is not new. In ancient times, many public projects were conceded to the private sector to build and operate. More…
National ICT Policy formulation and strategic planning – An example from the Commonwealth
Abhinav Bahl, ICT Research and Support Officer; Anthony Ming, Adviser (Informatics); and Omer Awan, ICT Officer Participants at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva took note of the power of information and communication technologies to fundamentally transform the relationships between government and citizens and businesses and civil society, with far-reaching ramifications for a country’s development. More…
Decentralisation in Ghana and Pakistan – a case of policy transfer or mere coincidence?
Munawwar Alam, Adviser (Sub-national Administration and Government) Policy transfer is an umbrella term that covers a broad range of phenomena and activities in the realm of public policy, such as lesson-drawing, policy emulation, policy diffusion, cross-national policy learning, and so on and so forth. More…
Human resource management and good governance
S Omar Z Mowlana, Adviser (Human Resource Management) Good governance is often used to describe the desired objective of a nation’s political development. Even though it is a relatively new term, the principles of good governance, however, are not new. More…
Moving from silo to holistic – A key strategy for combating corruption in the Commonwealth
Roger Koranteng, Adviser (Governance), Thematic sub-Programme Group The fact that corruption is a major worldwide problem that places too much pressure on governments and resources cannot be over-emphasised. Many nations around the globe have become conscious of the terrible effects of corruption. More…
Machinery of government reforms: revisiting alternative service delivery
John Wilkins, Acting Director and Head of the Thematic Programmes Group Restructuring was a prominent theme of the New Public Management (NPM) era. Traditional ministeries and departments were challenged as the preferred organisational format to best meet public goals. More…
Good governance, reform and capacity-building across the Commonwealth – The role of CAPAM
David Menyah, Manager, Programme Development, CAPAM Good governance as expressed through factors like reliability, predictability and accountability is increasingly seen as key to ensuring global and national prosperity. This is especially so as recent socio-political and economic developments have increased the attention given to the role that good governance plays in achieving development. More…