Government to governance

1. Government to Governance

2.  Government is a group of people who rule or run the administration
of a country. In other words, it may be said that a government is the
body of representatives that governs and controls the state at a given
time. Government is the medium through which the power of the
state is employed.
 Governments may be two types :
1. Democratic
2. Autocracy
Government

3. Purposes and objectives of government
 Domestic order and tranquillity
 Common defence of the state
 Blessings of liberty and peace
 Promotion of general welfare
 Promotion of public morality

4.  Act of governing or ruling.
 It is the set of rules and laws framed by the government that are
to be implemented through the representatives of the state.
 Governance is what governments do.
 Governance is a concept that can be followed in an organization
of any size, be it a single cell or an organism or all of humanity.
Governance

5. Types of Governance
 Political Governance
 Economic Governance
 Administrative Governance

7. Rule of Law
 A corner stone of good governance is adherence to the, that is,
the impersonal and impartial application of stable and
predictable laws, statutes, rules, and regulations, without regard
for social status or political considerations.

8. Actors in governance
 State
 Civil Society
 Market

9.  State
 To enable is to make changes in the law and incentive structure
and to develop local capacity rather than to manage resources or
to deliver services directly.
 Creation of a government which creates an enabling setting
within which the people can be more effective in meeting those
needs.
 Civil Society
 consists of the complex of citizens and groups outside
government but working in a public arena. Sometimes called non
government organizations, or the non profit or voluntary sector.
They attempt to represent the interest of the inarticulate and the
excluded or marginalized to organize them to raise their voices
on social issues and own their issues. They get organized and
contest the power of the state to show alternative ways of service
provision and policy formulation.

10.  NGO’s may engage in the critique of existing government policy
and may challenge government by competing with government’s
own delivery systems.
 NGOs may likewise mobilize people to prove themselves eligible
to receive government social services.
 Market
 This refers to the stakeholders or those who will benefit from the
services given by government. They can also be referred to as
those governed.

11. Governance and Government
 are synonymous in most dictionaries both denoting the exercise of authority in
an organization, institution or state.
 Activities are encompassed in the act of governing:
 Rule
 Orchestrate
 Control
 Lead
 Manage
 Government rules and controls but in a state of governance it orchestrates and
manages.