Masai women queue to vote in Kajiado district, Nairobi.
'The issue of good governance and capacity-building is what we believe lies at the core of all Africa's problems.'
Commission for Africa, 2005
The fact that 'governance matters' for development has become universally accepted. However, the development of effective strategies, policies, analytical tools and operational approaches is still very much 'work in progress'.
On many governance issues there are important gaps: there is no established 'state of the art' on how to approach change. Coherence in the analytical work is still under development. Ex-post evaluations have been more project-focused than thematic so are of limited value in building a body of knowledge. Donors do not agree on how to react when high-profile corruption cases erupt in partner countries.
ODI, one of the institutions hosting the World Governance Assessment, is looking into these issues. Work on governance is led by the ODI Politics and Governance programme, with inputs from staff in most other ODI research areas.
2007 Annual Report pages
Development Policy Review
- 'Developmental States in the New Millennium' edited by Verena Fritz and Alina Rocha Menocal. Vol. 25, no. 5, September 2007. Contents>
Briefing papers
- Voice for Accountability: Citizens, the state and realistic governance by Marta Foresti and Bhavna Sharma with Alison Evans. PDF >
- Central Asia: Governance, geopolitics and development challenges by Verena Fritz. PDF>
- Parliaments and development: What shapes parliamentary performance and what can donors do to enhance it, by Alan Hudson. PDF>
- Governance, and aid effectiveness: A quick guide to complex relationships by Julius Court, Goran Hyden and Kenneth Mease, March 2006. PDF>
- Governance, development and aid effectiveness: A quick guide to complex relationships by Julius Court, Goran Hyden and Kenneth Mease, March 2006. PDF>
Opinions
- Combating Corruption in Africa: What can donors do? by Alina Rocha Menocal PDF>
- Assessing governance: How can political risk analysis help? by Lauren Phillips, August 2006. PDF>
- Governance and aid effectiveness: Has the White Paper got it right? by Julius Court. PDF>
- How to move forward on governance and corruption by Verena Fritz. PDF>
- The politics of hunger by Diana Cammack. PDF>
Working Papers
- Governance assessments for local stakeholders: What the World Governance Assessment offers by Goran Hyden, Kenneth Mease, Marta Foresti and Verena Fritz. January 2008. PDF >
- Rethinking governance in water services by Janelle Plummer and Tom Slaymaker, December 2007. PDF >
- (Re)building developmental states: From theory to practice by Verena Fritz and Alina Rocha Menocal, September 2006. PDF>
- Drivers of change and development in Malawi by David Booth, Diana Cammack, Jane Harrigan, Edge Kanyongolo, Mike Mataure and Naomi Ngwira, January 2006. PDF>
- 2 Working Papers now available from the Good Governance and New Aid Modalities project More>
Other publications
- An Analytical and Conceptual Paper on Processes, Embedded Tensions and Lessons for International Engagement by Verena Fritz and Alina Rocha Menocal. PDF>
- Managing the risks of corruption in humanitarian relief operations by Barnaby Willitts-King and Paul Harvey, HPG commissioned report for DFID. PDF>
- ODI Background Note: Corruption and anti-corruption efforts by Verena Fritz, November 2006. PDF>
- Governance Assessment - Overview of governance assessment frameworks and results from the 2006 World Governance Assessment Report, from an ODI Learning Workshop, 15 February 2007. PDF>
- Africa after the Africa Commission: What priorities for the German G8? - an ODI, IDS and DSA event- May 2007 More>
- Worldwide Governance Indicators: Governance Matters 2006 - An ODI and World Bank Discussion Event September 2006. More>
- (Re)building developmental states, an ODI series, January-June 2006. More>
- 'From civil service reform to capacity development', Speaker: Merilee Grindle, Center of International Development, Harvard University, March 2006. More>
- 'Corruption and anti-corruption', Speaker: John Githongo, former Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics in the Government of Kenya and currently Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, March 2006. More>
- Governance, development and the 2005 agenda, April 2005. More>
- Assessing governance: No easy task by Marta Foresti. Blog >
- Beyond-Aid issues: Is DfID's response to Parliament sufficient? by Alan Hudson, May 2007. Blog>
- Arms to Africa? Policy coherence for development and power by Alan Hudson, January 2007. Blog>
- Much ado about...conditionality? Corruption? by Verena Fritz, September 2006. Blog>
- IMF Governance Reform: Real change still years away by Lauren Phillips, August 2006. Blog>
- The White Paper on Governance and Corruption: Saying many right things, avoiding to communicate some difficult choices by Verena Fritz, July 2006. Blog>
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Mexican Presidential Elections at a Cliff Hanger by Alina Rocha Menocal, July 2006. Blog>
- The Mexican electoral cliffhanger part 2: To recount or not to recount - is there a question? by Alina Rocha Menocal, July 2006. Blog>
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