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Good Governance aims to contribute to overall development of a country. Since independence, the attainment of good governance has been a far cry. A number of constraints and challenges stand as barriers for establishing good governance. But the political and bureaucratic segments of the society can play an effective role. Governance has become a popular, if not trendy concept in much of the political, development and academic debate. In the second half of the 1980s as the cold war thawing the issue of governance of international organizations became a matter of serious and high level consideration, though it is rather an old concept as human civilization. It was used in French as “governance” in the fourteenth century, meaning ‘royal officers’. Ideas about ‘governance’ now appear in many contexts: as ‘corporate’ governance, ‘global’ governance ‘national’ governance and ‘local’ governance or simply ‘good’ governance refers to the act of governing in a wide sense and also ‘governance’ means the process of decision are implemented (or not implemented). Governance as an analytical perspective is still emerging and there are contending views surrounding the concept. (more…)