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        <rss:description>UNEP's Isabelle Vanderbeck focuses this blog on how to promote good governance and build instutions to promote transboundary waters management.</rss:description>
        

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        <rss:title>In GEF IW context, what is governance?</rss:title>

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What is
Governance? There are many different definitions and many different
understandings of the concept.  Some have
even been writing dictionaries on governance…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The terms &lt;a title="Governance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance"&gt;governance&lt;/a&gt;
and good governance form almost part of our daily vocabulary. &lt;a title="Governance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance"&gt;Governance&lt;/a&gt;
describes the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are
implemented or not implemented. Public institutions conduct public affairs,
manage public resources, and guarantee the realization of human rights. Good
governance defines an ideal which is difficult to achieve in its totality.
However, to ensure sustainable human development, actions must be taken to work
towards this ideal. Major donors and international financial institutions, like
the &lt;a title="IMF" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF"&gt;IMF&lt;/a&gt;
or &lt;a title="World Bank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank"&gt;World Bank&lt;/a&gt;,
are increasingly basing their &lt;a title="Aid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid"&gt;aid&lt;/a&gt; and loans on the condition that reforms ensuring good
governance are undertaken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The GEF like
many other donors is interested in long-term sustainability beyond GEF funding.
Therefore, it strives to establish new or strength existing governance mechanisms
to allow basins and regions to govern themselves beyond the project life. The challenge
under the GEF is that the areas being tackled involve many countries forming
part of a multi-country drainage basin or else a Large Marine Ecosystem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As Task Manager within
UNEP for IW projects in Latin America, I am specifically
interested in sharing views and experience in what works for what reason and
what certainly does not work and for what reasons.  In other words, recognizing that there is no one
size fits all and that it is not an issue of recipe, reviewing key
“ingredients” to make it work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hence, how did you
succeed to ensure proper anchoring of your multi-country project into the
various national policies?  What is your
experience in establishing inter-ministerial committees, or inter-institutional
mechanisms?  How did your region go about
forming a basin Committee or a Commission etc? What mechanism did your project
use to ensure government and citizen commitment into the joint management of water
resources?&lt;/p&gt;
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        <dc:date>2007-04-18T23:59:29+03:00</dc:date>

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        <dc:creator>Isabelle Vanderbeck</dc:creator>

        
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