Objectives	Focus Area	Activities
Institutional Framework	Vision	Academic Council
Resources	Deliverables	Process
Accomplishment	Collaboration with other      Institutions / Agencies	Contact Us

The Centre for Good Governance has been established in HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration in the year 2004 and registered as Society in March 2005. CGG is aims to coordinate and support the designing and implementation of the State Government's Governance Reforms Programmes.  Thus it would undertake action research, provide professional advice, and conduct change management programmes for government departments and other concerned agencies. This way the Centre would cater the needs of policy makers, civil servants, relevant authorities, representatives of industries, academics, research institutes and non-governmental organisations for implementing the reform initiatives in the State.


Objectives

The objectives of the CGG are:

	To create a knowledge base to be utilized by the stakeholders so as to know and analyze their negative and positive aspects of functioning;
	On the basis of above studies to audit and suggest new Public Management Systems in administration especially under the indicators such as speed, clarity, transparency, predictability, responsiveness, required interface, understanding and execution of rules and procedures in such a way that it fulfills the aims and objectives of the organisation;
	To organize and support training programmes for the stakeholders to tune in their policies, procedures and outcome with good governance and people's participation in development and also to devise ways to empower people at large;
	To help strengthen institutions which may function as positive pressure groups for result-oriented delivery systems and restructuring of delivery system;
	To create a bank of best practices, success stories and successfully tried experiments and tools in governance reforms; and
	To promote consultancy services to state and local governments and other national and international organisations in the field of action research and implementation of reforms.

Focus Area

The Centre for Good Governance has the following focus areas:

	Creation of knowledge base
	Application of the knowledge so accrued, in the working of stake- holder organisations.
	Ensuring that the application reaches the grassroots.
	Performance audit by the Centre and also encouraging NGO's/people's fora to work in this area.
	Creating alternate and new public management systems and suggesting their application.

Activities

	Capacity building of all stake-holders through action-research, studies, training, conferences, workshops etc.
	Documentation of studies, reports
	Publication of newsletter of CGG and Journals on Good Governance.

Institutional Framework

Centre for good Governance is a society registered under Societies Registration Act. The Governing Board of the society has the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan as its President and includes Secretaries to Government and representatives of civil society. An Executive Committee having Director of HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration (RIPA) as its Chairperson, takes all important decisions. The Director, RIPA is also the Director of CGG. Governing Board and Executive Committee are always open to seek expert opinion from eminent persons.

 

Vision

To develop a premier institution for resource and capacity building for the State governments, their various departments and officials and also for local self governments and civil society and devote itself fully to providing support to the governmental efforts to reform the system.
 

Academic Council

The Centre shall have an academic wing to conduct action research and training for capacity building of all stakeholders. The wing will have Professors, Consultants, and Research Staff on contract or deputation basis. Administrative faculty with field experience will also be utilised for practical inputs from the field working, Representatives of Civil Society will also benefit the Centre with their rich field experience.

 

Resources

The Centre will receive inputs from the following sources:

	State Government of Rajasthan through different departments and agencies.
	Government of India through Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Rural Development.
	International Agencies working in the field of good governance.
	Research unit will provide analyses and policy responses to the Centre.
	Consultants may provide technical and policy advice.

Deliverable

The outcome will be the reengineering and empowerment of the following:

	Government department, field units, local self governments.
	Government officials/employees.
	Private Sector Organisations
	Civil Society Organisations/Academia/research institutions

Process

The process for the above will be through:

Capacity building of all stakeholders by training, workshops, seminars, studies and research.

Case Studies, Success-stories

Publication of Newsletter, Journal, Studies, Surveys etc.

Policy recommendation on various subjects

 

Accomplishment

During the span of four years, the Centre has developed and experimented a detailed training module on good governance for public servants. Centre has also organized national consultation of good governance in which all National and International experts including from commonwealth secretariat had participated. A detailed workshop was organized on e-Governance .The Centre has also conducted studies of 22 schemes run by GOR.A Project Sponsored by UNDP and GOI on RTI has also been completed during year 2006 -08  .A New Project on Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction (Training Initiative ) sponsored by DFID and GOI is also being run by the Centre .A similar project on Training for all has also been undertaken by CGG for Bikaner District..


 

Collaboration with other Institutes/Agencies

CGG Rajasthan is willing to collaborate for study/Research/Conferences in the field of Good Governance from the government/non-government organizations dedicated in the field of good governance in public administration.

 

Contact Us

CGG is located in HCM RIPA campus and the correspondence/mail/personal contact can be made:

Centre for Good Governance
HCM RIPA, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Jaipur-302017
Phone
91-141-2702932, 2704950, 2706268, Fax No. 2702542, 2705420
E-mail
hcmripa@sancharnet.in