Tag: Governance

Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa’s Public Sector, Volume I Ethical Compliance and Institutional Performance


Free Download Kemi Ogunyemi, "Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa’s Public Sector, Volume I: Ethical Compliance and Institutional Performance "
English | ISBN: 3030953939 | 2022 | 220 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is an excellent resource for academics and students interested in ethics and accountability in the public sector, as well as for practitioners, NGO workers and policymakers. Over the last decades, issues in ethical leadership have become central to the global call for higher moral standards on the part of corporate organisations and their leaders and managers. The book’s chapters investigate these concerns in Africa, where governance gaps often reflect poor leadership. Parenthetically, in 2001, a UNDP report found difficulties in applying anti-corruption laws and managing public institutions in the continent. Twenty years on, significant efforts have been made to improve the situation, yet extensive challenges still subsist. In this first volume, contributors discuss the practice of ethics, anti-corruption, and performance management, and propose solutions, some general to the continent and others country-specific.

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EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline


Free Download Digdem Soyaltin-Colella, "EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline"
English | ISBN: 3031057805 | 2022 | 323 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The European Union (EU) support for good governance reforms has been the cornerstone of its conditionality and funding policies and contributed its role as a transformative power. This book re-evaluates the EU’s governance promotion capacity both within the EU and beyond its borders in light of the simultaneous decline in democracy in Europe in particular, and across the whole world in general. The book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the EU’s good governance transfer to member and accession countries. Part II examines how and to what extent the EU’s governance promotion strategies travel beyond its borders and focuses on neighbours, partners, and aid recipient countries especially in Africa. Part III turns to other regional and global actors and discusses the implications of illiberal contesters such as China and Russia on the future of EU’s good governance promotion efforts. The findings of the book bring fresh insights for the scope and depth of the EU’s governancetransfer capacity.

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Climate Governance in the Arctic


Free Download Timo Koivurova, E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Nigel Bankes, "Climate Governance in the Arctic"
English | 2009 | pages: 458 | ISBN: 9048181518, 1402095414 | PDF | 4,1 mb
Climate change is affecting the Arctic environment and ecosystems at an accelerating speed, twice the rate of the global average. This is opening the Arctic to transportation and resource development and creating serious challenges for local communities and indigenous peoples.

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Introduction to AI Governance


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Released 2/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 59m | Size: 103 MB
As generative AI continues to grow in importance, new risks are emerging in its wake. AI governance has become an organization-wide imperative to ensure safe and responsible adoption and use. In this course, instructor Vidhi Chugh helps you develop your awareness as an AI practitioner and better understand the risks and challenges of governing AI.

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Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa


Free Download Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa by Abraham R. Matamanda, James Chakwizira, Kudzai Chatiza, Verna Nel
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 331 Pages | ISBN : 3031498569 | 39.8 MB
This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the changing roles of the cities within the national space economy. It fills the gap in the literature on secondary cities with original case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The authors are all African scholars, working and living in the region with intimate knowledge of the settings they describe. The book is critical as it includes such regional case studies of different secondary cities in Southern Africa but also because of it’s multidisciplinarity: it contains substantive and pertinent issues such as climate change, disaster management, local economic development, and basic services delivery. It considers diverse environments, yet with similar challenges that could provide useful policy and governance proposals for other cities.

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New Public Governance As a Hybrid A Critical Interpretation


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 100945403X | 70 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
This Element focuses on New Public Governance as one of the major administrative narratives of our times. It offers a critical interpretation of NPG as a hybrid tool for management, governance, and reform, arguing that NPG coexists with and is likely to gradually merge into New Public Management. Several arguments support the ‘continuity and hybridization’ hypothesis, whereby the transition from NPM to NPG occurred through the retention of key elements and a layering and sedimentation process. These arguments challenge the "linear substitution" hypothesis, accounting for NPM’s persistence and dominance. The Element develops a new interpretation of NPG and discusses the challenges that NPG poses. Finally, it shows that exploring hybridity is critical for evaluating the potential of NPG in terms of a shift in public administration and understanding governance trajectories and reform scenarios.

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