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
512/694-7864 Cell

Hb02@txstate.edu

Current Features

Welcome to our collaborative Web site promoting good governance through a worldwide professional community of practice – including emerging, modernizing and advanced democracies.

Calendar of Global Events

Urban Innovation –

Fighting Anti-Roma Hate, One Story at a Time

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

Institutional Analysis

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Better Outcomes for Older Youth of Color in Foster Care

#WordsMatter

By Kisten Weber

Church, Nonprofit Employees Mandatory Reporters Under Law

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-Wide Problem: Insights from Orange County’s Homelessness Cost Study

Community & Citizen Engagement –

Liberian Civil Society Advances the Battle to End Ebola

By Kelly Ann Krawczyk

Smart Waste Management Reform in South Africa: Community Engagement in a Western Cape Informal Settlement

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

Reinvigorated in Romania

International Knowledge Exchange Opportunities

Waste Management Technologies in Regions: Summer Undertakings

ICMA Launches New CityLinks Project - May 28, 2014


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-Transformed Government

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-Style Public Spending Corruption

Emerging markets: Redawing the world map

At Financial Times

Improving Citizen Engagement

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 - “A P3 Like None Other!”

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-escalation’ to new model policy on use of force

Cities in New York Advised How to Buck a Trump Deportation Push

Inside the Lives of 4 Syrian Refugee Families

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

Apply Now to Internationalize Your Campus!


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, 2004-2015

The Foundation for Reconstruction: Building the Rwanda Revenue Authority, 2001-2017

Presidential Transitions and Deforestation in Mexico

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-partisan, IRS-approved 501(c)(6) non-profit organization dedicated to advancing shared services in the Federal Government.  More information about SSLC can be found at www.SharedServicesNow.org; and about COE at: www.center4oe.com.

2020 Digital Experience

June 15, 2020

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.


Closing the Digital Divide: A Case Study in Alton, Texas

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-operatives in Zimbabwe

Cairo’s Zabaleen garbage recyclers: Multi-nationals’ takeover and state relocation plans

migration policy in Québec‐Canada as a case study of incrementalism

State of the African Cities Report 2014

SECOPA 2019 Conference

September 5-7, 2019

Hosted by Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Public Administration in historic downtown Baton Rouge.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Vietnam Symposium on Leadership and Public policy

October 30-31, 2018

Call for Papers

The School of Public Administration and Development Economics is hosting "the 9th Global Conference on Public Policy and Administration in the Middle East" from 8th - 9th of December at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies.


Call for Papers is attached, please send your abstract to AMEPPA@dohainstitute.edu.qa  

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