Democracy and Good Governance: The Missing Link in Nigeria

Gilbert, Lysias Dodd; Allen, Fidelis

doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n16p524

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“…Popular understanding of the true essence of governance within a 'democratic' framework is that it ensures the security of lives and property of the citizen and to minimize the occurrence of violence and insecurity (Ekiran, 2006;Gilbert and Allen, 2014;Agwu, 2017). It is pertinent to state that, due lack of good governance; human societies are gradually gravitating toward violence as way of life, thus, making it a widespread phenomenon.…”

Section: Governance and The Phenomenon Of Violence In Rivers Statementioning

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Governance, Violence and the Challenge of Internal Security in Rivers State, Nigeria

Agwanwo

Ibrahim

2019

NJSA

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Governance, the world over, has become the main framework for assessing the effective utilization of human and material resources for the development of a nation or an organization. This paper explores the link between governance failure, violence and its implication for internal security in Rivers State. The level of violence in the state is high and increasing particularly since 1999 when the nation returned to civil rule. Violence such as inter and intra communal conflicts, cult violence, armed robbery, kidnapping, political violence among others, now writ large in the state. The study utilized the qualitative and content analysis. The paper reveals that the pervasive nature of violence with negative effect on the internal security is the fall out of the failure of the governance in the state. The paper recommends, among other things that, good governance is a tool for empowering the people, which in turn, will reduce unemployment, poverty, marginalization and the recourse to violent aggression in the state.

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Section: Governance and The Phenomenon Of Violence In Rivers Statementioning

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Governance, Violence and the Challenge of Internal Security in Rivers State, Nigeria

Agwanwo

Ibrahim

2019

NJSA

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“…Several macroeconomic studies show corruption as one of challenges for national sustainable development, believably takes effect on failures of nations in reducing unemployment and poverty [34,35]. Other studies prove that corruption shuts down political fairness and accountability turning democracy into tyrannical majority [13,36] which are considered as barriers for sustainable development and triggers for potential criminality. As its environmental effects, corruption causes government to issue statutes and policies for accountable bureaucratic procedures.…”

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Public Engagement for Objective and Holistic Officials’ Evaluation: an Integrated Political-Social-Legal View

Widhoyoko¹,

Sasmoko²,

Khan³

et al. 2018

IJET

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This research proposes new model of officials’ evaluation grounded on a belief regarding to the urgency of a framework which embraces socio-political aspects holistically. This is derived from national vision in sustainability development demanding a more transparent, reliable, and competent leadership. Regarding to this, distortions often occur due to governance malpractices in the form of corruption which impact officials’ performance as well as environment conduciveness. This phenomenon is taken as a fundamental paradigm of this research which results in a reasoning stating that officials’ objective evaluation. This research realizes that cannot be done by considering officials as a single-role entity. It must consider several roles which impacts and influences several different parties (political, social, and governmental). This research comprehends such gap through comprehensive literature review and transforms all theories in the purpose of building a systematic assessment methodology which captures various aspects from different perspective. In its discussion, this model is proven academically to be able to evaluate officials’ performance objectively through three broad parameters: (1) policies formulation, (2) social engagement, and (3) regulatory submission. In addition, those three categorical assessment would be integrated in a weighted-average system, enabling them to produce a numerical score. In this stage, this framework is applied through information technology is used to capture data from different respondents.

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Child-Friendly Urban Development: Smile Village Community Development Initiative in Phnom Penh

Chan

2021

World

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Since urban children’s populations have been rapidly increasing, there is a growing interest in promoting child-friendly cities and communities. UNICEF has accordingly developed a framework for action to build child-friendly cities and communities. This framework outlines the steps to build a governance system committed to realizing the rights of children and translated implementation processes in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Particularly, UNICEF produced a guidebook that outlines building blocks to developing child-friendly cities and communities. This guidebook provides good practices and consolidates common challenges and lessons learned to guide the city governments and relevant stakeholders. Likewise, Cambodia developed a national child-friendly community framework aimed to further improve conducive environments for children where their rights are recognized and supported. Following these international and national trends on child-friendly urban development, many organizations and relevant stakeholders in Cambodia have come together to build urban communities focused on children. Similarly, the Smile Village community in Phnom Penh city was developed. Although its main vision is to build a residential community for underprivileged families to achieve social and financial mobility, various facilities and programs were developed for children. This study explores this community on its child-friendly dimensions and examines whether this urban community is child-friendly based on the national child-friendly community development’s core dimensions.

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Democracy and Good Governance: The Missing Link in Nigeria

Abstract: At the minimum, democracy refers to a political system that guarantees opportunities for citizens to choose and replace their

Cited by 4 publications

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Governance, Violence and the Challenge of Internal Security in Rivers State, Nigeria

Governance, Violence and the Challenge of Internal Security in Rivers State, Nigeria

Public Engagement for Objective and Holistic Officials’ Evaluation: an Integrated Political-Social-Legal View

Child-Friendly Urban Development: Smile Village Community Development Initiative in Phnom Penh

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