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Challenging Good Local Governance Experiences from Afghanistan Conrad Schetter

Challenging Good Local Governance Experiences from Afghanistan Conrad Schetter. Bonn, 4 October 2007. Good Governance versus Governance. Good Governance “getting politics right“ from “top down to bottom up“ guided by the paradigm of liberal democracy. Good Governance versus Governance.

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Challenging Good Local Governance Experiences from Afghanistan Conrad Schetter

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  1. Challenging Good Local Governance Experiences from AfghanistanConrad Schetter Bonn, 4 October 2007

  2. Good Governance versus Governance • Good Governance • “getting politics right“ • from “top down to bottom up“ • guided by the paradigm of liberal democracy

  3. Good Governance versus Governance • Governance … “… refers to the formation and stewardship of the formal and informal rules that regulate the public realm, the arena in which states as well as economic and social actors interact to make decisions” (Goran Hyden 2002) • academic perspective on mechanisms and rules, which generate policy outcomes

  4. ZEF projects on Governance • All large ZEF-projects on natural resources include a governance dimension (GLOWA; Khorezm etc.) • Further projects • Good Governance and the Law-making Process for Economic Reforms in Morocco, Egypt and Jordan (Noha al-Mikawy) • Alternative Institutions for Natural Resource Management in Developing Countries (Stefanie Engel) • The Impact of Liberalization cum Decentralization Economies on Russia‘s Agro-food Sector (Peter Wehrheim)

  5. ZEF projects on Governance • ZEF-Governance Research interlinked with research on • knowledge • cultural diversity • decentralization

  6. Good Local Governance in Fragile States • Why important? • on the local level people are facing decision making process on a daily basis • lack of state structures on the local level • lack of contact persons for development agencies

  7. Good Local Governance in Fragile States • Good Local Governance aims • to empower local communities • to introduce liberal democratic principles

  8. Research Area Kunduz

  9. Good Local Governance in Afghanistan • Projects quick and visible • increasing the acceptance and physical security of IOs/NGOs • Intervening in existing power structures • manifestation of power structures • de-legitimacy of democratic principles • … or destabilization of the local social order

  10. Good Local Governance in Afghanistan • Undercover State Building via Good Local Governance • identifying, shaping and territorializing of “village communities” • IOs/NGOs – Agencies of modernity • IOs/NGOs are symbolizing the enforcement of a new order and the restructuring of power

  11. Conclusion • Good Governance is caught between two normative dilemmas • a) Encouraging ownership of the people • b) Introducing modern standards

  12. Conclusion • Role of research at ZEF • Generating knowledge about the policy and the implementation of good governance approaches • Generating knowledge about local institutions and actors

  13. Viele Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit Thank you for your attention More information available: www.zef/amudarya.0.de

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