Governance Curriculum/Principles

Governing Principles to Guide the Initiative

The following list is not exhaustive and will be modified as further suggestions come in, but the following principles help to build a common vision of cooperative support for good governance:

• Learning from each other by sharing information

• Preservation of knowledge in readily accessible forms

• Commitment to quality

• Plain language

• Balanced, even-handed treatment of different aspects of good governance

• Focus on techniques that enhance sound public decision-making

• Observance of relevant governance principles in Initiative design and implementation

• Respecting and accommodating different views and cultural traditions

• Objectivity and independence

• Giving a fair hearing to voices normally not heard

• Transparency in the way decisions are taken

• Cost-effectiveness: optimising the return on resources invested in knowledge acquisition and dissemination

• Accountability to users, partners and funding bodies through use of performance indicators, financial and monitoring systems and feedback mechanisms

• Consensus style decision making

• Free access to the information conveyed under this Initiative