Dobre rządzenie jako element zrównoważonego rozwoju
Good governance as an element of sustainable development

Author(s): Bogdan Nowosad
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Social development, Environmental interactions
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: good governance; sustainable development; an indicator of good governance; good administration practice
Summary/Abstract: The concept of good governance is derived from the discourse of the World Bankon the development strategies of the 80s aimed at fighting poverty in developing countries.In time the good governance has become a category of evaluating the effectiveness of publicsector activities generally for business purposes and as part of the strategy for sustainabledevelopment. The good governance, and its most instanced area – good administrativepractice is considered, in fact, for the fourth, horizontal pillar of sustainable development,next to the pillars of environmental, social and economic. The objective of good governanceis to build social cohesion, strengthening of democracy and human rights, contributeto environmental protection, sustainable management of human resources. Strategies forgood governance alleviate social tensions through dialogue, participation, broader accessto information, including through scientific progress, educational activities for sustainabledevelopment, including through public debate and reflection related to her. There is nouniversal set of elements of good governance. Many institutions and organizations topromote their own models, which show a large variation in this respect, but it seems to bethe leading model of the World Bank. Since the 90’s was developed a set of indicators forassessing and determining the levels of good governance, but the lack of a uniform andfully reliable system of assessment, but these data are seen as an important cognitive andserve as a reference framework of implemented strategies for sustainable development.

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