Good governance is necessary for international development. Aspects of good governance we work on include financial transparency, anti-corruption efforts, capacity building, and gender and inclusivity. Governments must ensure their economic activities are transparent and are held accountable to the goals they set. Governments must implement policy that is comprehensive and inclusive to form feedback loops with other actors such as those in the private sector and civil society. These actors must actively be involved in the process of forming, modifying, and assessing policy. IDG can assist government officials ranging from Presidents and Prime Ministers to workers of Ministries of Finance. Our services provide best practices entailing anti-corruption, strategic trade negotiations, financial transparency, private sector involvement, and gender inclusion.
We work with Indo-Pacific countries to advance good governance by promoting independent media sources and the availability of information to the general public.
This assessment found that a most of the US Bangladeshi diaspora have concerns and believe that a barrier to Bangladeshi development is government corruption, safety/security, red tape, high taxation levels, policy unpredictability and uncertainty. Property right concerns, including worries about property-right protection and difficulties in obtaining building permits, also are perceived to be impediments to diaspora investment and thus development by the community. The assessment showed that improvements in governance could increase diaspora investment and involvement.
The EGDP project analyzed Egypt’s recent performance on the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGIs) at the aggregate and individual governance indicator levels for: Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, and Control of Corruption. The project also conducted a workshop on “Governance Indicators and Egypt’s Future Perspectives.”
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