Global Challenges & Solutions
What’s New – 2021
Dr. Howard Balanoff, the William P. Hobby Professor of Public Service at Texas State University has just assumed the position as Editor in Chief of Good Governance Worldwide. Warren Master, Managing Editor of Good Governance Worldwide will retain his position and continue to serve as a member of the Journals Steering Group.
Be on the lookout for a major revamping of the Good Governance Worldwide website soon. Among the changes planned are the selection of Associate Editors, the selection of a Journal Editorial Board and the addition of new procedures for submitting articles for publication in Good Governance Worldwide.
Please contact Dr. Balanoff if you have any questions or need any additional information. His contact information is shown below.
Dr. Howard R. Balanoff, William P. Hobby Professor of Public Service
Editor in Chief, Good Governance Worldwide
Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, Texas 78666
512/694-
Current Features
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Calendar of Global Events
Urban Innovation –
Fighting Anti-
UN urges governments to steer migration away from buckling megacities
How a declining German city is reviving itself from the bottom up
Five big ideas to better integrate nature into cities
Four tools to ensure ‘smart cities’ don’t leave behind people with disabilities
Cities must stop underestimating their need and ability to respond to migration
How Baltimore is using the Sustainable Development Goals to make a more just city
If cities are to ‘leave no one behind’, disaggregated data is invaluable
Providing shelter in urban Iraq: Where the displaced meet the poor
Canada experiments with U.S. ‘sanctuary city’ model
How São Paulo is tackling poverty and urban sprawl by bolstering farming
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Domestic Articles –
Law Enforcement Partnerships Enhance Cybercrime Investigations
Tribes as Equal Partners in Homeland Security
Legislating Performance: Does Mandated Performance Measurement Really Work?
Moving the Needle on a County-
Community & Citizen Engagement –
Liberian Civil Society Advances the Battle to End Ebola
By Kelly Ann Krawczyk
By Claire Mollatt
“We’ll Keep Liberia’s Economy Moving In This Ebola Dilemma”
By VEGA Alliance,
Promoting Prosperity Worldwide
ICMA International
ICMA International has a successful track record of introducing sound management practices to local governments, municipal associations, national ministries, and agencies in developing and decentralizing countries throughout the world.
Harnessing the Power of Utilities
International Knowledge Exchange Opportunities
Waste Management Technologies in Regions: Summer Undertakings
ICMA Launches New CityLinks Project -
Global Articles –
After Fukushima: Citizen Preparedness for Nuclear Emergencies
Disaster Management, Inclusion and Representative Bureaucracy
Refugee Resettlement: An Emergency Management Issue
Community Development After Disaster Strikes
Developing the Watchdog Capacity in Romania
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Perspective from Jordan
Waiting for the Boogie Man: Ebola, Flu and Other Reasons to Build Community Resilience
Open Society Foundations –
The Complicated Legacy of Indonesia’s Elections
Volunteer Lawyers Give New Direction to Nigerian Legal Aid Initiative
How Access to Justice Helps in the Fight Against Poverty
Why Latin America Is a Hotbed of Political Innovation
Knowledge Management for the Digitally-
In Zambia’s Contentious Election, the EU Finds a New Challenge
Why Roma Integration Is a Rare Opportunity for the Western Balkans and Turkey
The Strange Invincibility of Corruption in Albania
Dealing a Blow to Ukraine’s Soviet-
Emerging markets: Redawing the world map
At Financial Times
Esri inspires and enables people to positively impact the future through a deeper, geographic understanding of the changing world around them.
DRC: MSF begins Ebola vaccination trial in Bikoro to help curb outbreak
6 ways countries can prepare for the next infectious disease pandemic
Local Government Solutions Journal
March 2019 Edition
City of Battle Creek, MI Launches a “New Wave” of Online Priority Based Budgeting!
Think Like a User to Boost Online Engagement
Clearwater Cares -
San Antonio Uses an Online Budget Simulator to Boost Citizen Engagement on the Budget
Agri processing and agriculture jobs in the Western Cape
National police groups add ‘de-
Cities in New York Advised How to Buck a Trump Deportation Push
Let’s all support efforts aimed at promoting good governance in our communities
More than Rules: On Some Uses and Limits of a Compliance Approach to Ethics
Global Challenges & Solutions
Performance Management Is Not All About Data
By Thomas I Miller
In the Climate Trenches: Local Governments Network to Leverage Impact
By Sam Irvine
Making Good on a Promise: Boosting Primary Health Care Funding in Nigeria, 2015 – 2019
Governing from a Child’s Perspective: Recife, Brazil, Works to Become Family Friendly, 2017–2019
Keeping up with Growth: Building a Modern Tax Administration in Vietnam, 2004-
The Foundation for Reconstruction: Building the Rwanda Revenue Authority, 2001-
Calendar of global cities conferences & events
Click here for a list of upcoming conferences and events of interest to the world’s city leaders.
The Shared Services Leadership Coalition (SSLC) is pleased to announce that The Center for Organizational Excellence (COE) has joined the Coalition as a Sponsor.
For over 30 years, COE has helped organizations transform to more efficiently and effectively accomplish their missions. Across service lines of organizational effectiveness, human capital, data management, and information technology, COE helps clients achieve effective and measurable operations and outcomes. COE's core values include quality focus on service to their clients, welcomed staff, and a strong company to ensure capacity and innovation for those they serve. COE’s President, Steve Goodrich, published Transforming Government from Congress to the Cubicle, which is being used by agencies and political leaders to guide reform initiatives. COE is a strong proponent of shared services, has helped the government address shared service requirements, and is excited about being a part of SSLC!
SSLC is a non-
As the name connotes, this will be an entirely digital experience. All recorded panels will be available through our Digital Experience platform (www.aspanet.org/Digital2020) and all live events will have registration links for participation via GoToWebinar.
Turkey has been contact tracing for a century.
The Evolution of A Global Overview National Urban Policies
Civil society, housing and urban governance: The case of urban housing co-
Cairo’s Zabaleen garbage recyclers: Multi-
migration policy in Québec‐Canada as a case study of incrementalism
Call for Papers is attached, please send your abstract to AMEPPA@dohainstitute.edu.qa
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