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Rights and Governance ...
ChangeMaker intents to
improve the Human Rights and Good Governance (HRGG) issues
through flow of quality information and knowledge from the state
to the local community and vise versa to supports the
development activities of governments, the private sector, civil
society, and communities at large thus creating Accountability,
Participation, Predictability, and Transparency of all the
actors. ChangeMaker believes that free flow of quality and
appropriate information is the key to improve governance. In
order to make the local government accountable and to increase
participation of the community, the community people should know
and understand the functions of the local government, it
activities, development agenda, budget and its utilization,
reporting, and who to inform and what to do if the machinery is
not functioning appropriately. People should also know about
his/her rights as well as his/her role as a citizen to exercise
power in the management of a country's economic and social
resources. It is believed that increased knowledge and
information can accelerate the process by which rights would be
exercised in the management of a country's economic and social
resources for development and would also provide the required
capacity to engage them in designing, formulating
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as well as assist in
implementing social and economic development agendas as per
the need of the community. This increased participatory
approach giving a central role to local people – the
ultimate clients –is far more likely to generate a sense of
purpose and responsibility to engage in the development
process.
If the result of good governance is providing 'priority to poor,
advance the cause of women, sustain the environment, and create
needed opportunities for employment and other livelihoods' then
all men and women should have a voice in decision making, either
directly or indirectly or through legitimate intermediate
institutions that represent their interests. Legal frameworks
should work fairly and should be enforced impartially,
especially laws on human rights and at the same time the
decision-makers in government, the private sector and civil
society organizations should be accountable to the public, as
well as to institutional stakeholders. |
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ChangeMaker feels that a well-planned effort to improve the flow
of information and knowledge would help in attaining a required
level of awareness to both the state and the community, which in
turn, would accelerate the process of empowerment of the people
and the community. Appropriate and adequate information and
knowledge has the capacity to touch the lives and change the
attitude and behavior of the people and in turn would ultimately
create a well informed, knowledgeable, self-aware community to
take effective actions on their own for a sustainable social and
economic development through productive negotiation with the
local government. The local Government would also have
sufficient knowledge and information about its own constituency
to develop pragmatic action plans and facilitate sustainable,
effective, and appropriate program activities in association
with the central government affordable exchange of information
at local, regional, national, and international level. For
example, the assessment of damage caused by the recent flood has
become challenging, however, a systematic information resources
at the lowest tier could easily compiled at the national level
to assess precisely the damage. Similarly the status of health
and education, absenteeism of doctors, teachers can also be
easily assessed and take appropriate actions. When liked with
GIS system the governance and human rights issues could easily
be mapped and the cause and affect relationship would be
understood more clearly.
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