Initiative on Good Governance for Development (GfD) in the Arab Countries: Publications

Civil Service and Integrity
E-Government and Administrative Simplification
Governance of Public Finances
Public Service Delivery, Public-Private Partnership and Regulatory Reform
Role of the Judiciary and Law Enforcement
Citizens, Civil Society and Public Sector Reform in the Arab Region

On Creating Public Value: What Business Might Learn from Government About Strategic Management [English]. 2004 - Ash Institute - John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
In recent years there has been a sharp escalation in the social roles corporations are expected to play. Companies are facing new demands to be accountable not only to shareholders, but also to other stakeholders such as customers, employees, suppliers, local communities and policy makers. As a result of this changing business environment, the authors argue that the concept of organizational strategy developed for government agencies may work as well or even better than traditional business models when applied to business organizations.

Renewing Democracy Public Address: Why Government Must Reinvest in Civic Renewal [English]. 2004 - Ash Institute - John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Transcript of a public event organized at the Kennedy School of Government, with, as a guest speaker, the Right Honorable David Blunkett, Britain's Home Secretary. The speaker argues "we need to use government to reinforce a sense of identity and belonging, but we also need to ensure that we reinforce it by recognizing what it is that gives people that stake."

The Politics of HRM: Waiting for Godot in the Moroccan Civil Service [English]. 2004 - University of Manchester
This study illustrates the importance of a political understanding to improve Human Resource Management (HTM) in both public and private organizations and explains why a developing country such as Morocco, has not made progress in improving the way it manages its public servants.

Incentives and Human Resource Management: the Critical Missing Link in Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries [English]. 2003 - Egyptian Center for Economic Studies
The paper argues that the success of civil service reforms in the future is conditional upon the adoption of a combination of productivity-based incentives at an early stage of the process, granting organizations more autonomy in their daily operations, and introducing an efficient system of human resource management.

Globalization, NGOs, and Multi-Sectoral Relations [English]. 2000 - Ash Institute - John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
This paper seeks to make sense of the impact of globalization on nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations. It argues that globalization processes have contributed to the rising numbers and influence of NGOs in many countries, and particularly in the international arena and considers whether the emergence of domestic and international NGOs as important policy makers strengthens or weakens the future of democratic accountability, and suggests several patterns of interaction among civil society, government and business in future governance issues.

Civil Service for Sustainable Human Development in Jordan [English]. 1999 - United Nations Development Programme
This paper reviews civil service and public administration reforms for sustainable human development, and related concepts and issues.

Linking Corporate Social Responsibility, Good Governance and Corporate Accountability Through Dialogue [English]. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This paper is intended to generate discussion on the potential for creating an international multi stakeholder process to address some of the key gaps in the contemporary agenda on ‘corporate responsibility’ or ‘corporate social responsibility’. It argues the issue that there is still no comprehensive institutional setting or process within which to build understanding on the relationship between good governance, market-based corporate social responsibility, and corporate accountability.