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Good Enough Governance Revisited

An overview of the concept of good enough governance, questioning the extensive institutional changes seen as essential for development. Discusses the challenges practitioners face in implementing governance reforms and provides tools for strategic analysis of reform interventions.

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Good Enough Governance Revisited

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  1. Good Enough Governance Revisited Summary of Merilee Grindle’s contribution to the Governance TSP review. Africa Governance Retreat May 2005

  2. The Good Governance Agenda:Too Long, Too GeneralItems related to good governance in World Development Reports

  3. Good Enough Governance The concept of good enough governance provides a platform for questioning the long menu of institutional changes and public capacity building initiatives that are currently deemed important (or essential) for development.

  4. The Good Governance Agenda Does not discriminate among: • What’s essential and what’s not • What should come first and what should follow • What is feasible and what is not • What can be achieved in the short-term vs. longer-term

  5. Good Enough Governance • Governance interventions need to be focused on the minimal conditions necessary for development to go forward • Interventions need to be made relevant to the conditions of individual countries

  6. Research on Good Governance Little consensus on: • Definition • Measurement • Indicators • Inferences about causality: do institutions drive growth or vice versa?

  7. The Dilemma for Practitioners Getting on with good enough governance in a context of ambiguity about what can be done where

  8. Moving toward Priorities for Action Tools to analyze: • The context of the country • The content of the reform intervention To identify a limited range of important interventions that don’t overwhelm the capacity of the country

  9. The Country Context Strengths and weaknesses of the state. States differ significantly in their capacities and in the interest of their political leaders in governance reforms.

  10. Regimes and Capacities(adapted from M.Moore 2001)

  11. A Hierarchy of Governance Priorities?

  12. Strategic Analysis of Opportunities for Change

  13. The Content of Governance Reform Interventions Some reforms create more conflict, and are more complex and therefore harder to implement than others. Need to analyze the sources of support and opposition embedded in the political economy.

  14. Ease/Difficulty of Governance Interventions

  15. Is There Room to Maneuver? To make reform more feasible: • Can you adjust the context? • Can you adjust the content? • Can you adjust the context and the content?

  16. Back to Priorities • Does the intervention have a significant impact on poverty reduction? • Does the intervention advance DFID’s core capabilities objectives? • Is the intervention reasonable, given the context of the country and the content of the intervention? • What are the risks associated with the intervention and/or risks that might cause the intervention to be abandoned?

  17. A Hierarchy of Governance Priorities

  18. Prioritisation Matrix

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