Governance & Sustainability

Governance & Sustainability       

Dr. Rahmat Azam Mustafa who taught us the concept of sustainability and its relationship with governance. An overview of my learning from the lecture is shared here. hope the readers will learn something too from it.

Every country in the world is planning for sustainable development policies for almost every sector including urban development, industrialization, food production, agricultural resources, waste management, building design etc. For successful and effective running of the today world, the governance of sustainable development policies is the limelight of implementation. what is governance and how it links with sustainability is very important to understand.  

Concept of Sustainability

 Sustainability is a theory based on retaining the current resources and life opportunities for furture generation. according to UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) , the sustainability theory should have the four main focuses: 1. Eliminating poverty, 2. Creating jobs and sustaining livelihoods, 3. Protecting and regenerating environment and 4. Promoting advancement of women.

 Three types of sustainability:

• Environmental sustainability (saving the environmental resources for future)
• Socio-political sustainability (ensuring the security of life in friendly living)
• Economic sustainability        ( creating opportunities for employment & investment)

Governance 

is to promoting , supporting and sustaining human development. It applies to especially to the poorest and most marginal people. based on exercising the economic, political and administrative authorities engaging in terms of mechanisms and institutions. with this approach, common citizens participate through expression of their interests, meeting of requirements and intervention of their differences.

A good governance is about ensuring participation, transparency and accountability. it basically comprises of three legs:

›Economic-decision making processes in country's economic activities 

›Political-the process of decision-making to formulate policy

›Administrative-policy implementation

Domains coming under Governance:

the main domains of concern regarding governance are:

• The state (Government or the leadership of country)

• The private sector ( The primary source of development & employment)

• The civil society     ( community of common people, citizens )

Summary:

Sustainable development in any sector is always driven by a country/state that governs well, a private sector that creates job and investment, and the civil society that ensure the participation of common people in social, economic and political activities.