1st Edition
Mapping Governance Innovations Perspectives from South Asia
This volume explores the nature, success, and challenges of governance innovations in South Asia. It compares innovations and reforms that have been undertaken specifically in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It examines how these South Asian nations have fared in promoting the values of good governance both at the national and local levels.
The volume focuses mainly on three themes innovations and reforms in public administration, e-governance, public service delivery and innovations in local governance. It assesses how South Asian countries have sought to mitigate the challenges of governance and overcome the obstacles that characterized the transition from the old, traditional architecture of governance to the new and modern technologically enabled models of governance.
Lucid and topical, this book will be of great interest to scholars of politics, public administration and governance, public policy, public management, international relations, development studies, and related social science disciplines.
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
List of Contributors ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xviii
List of Abbreviations xx
1 Exploring Innovations in Governance: The South Asian Experience 1
SANGITA DHAL, NACHIKETA SINGH AND AMIR MOHAMMAD NASRULLAH
2 Capacity Building through Governance Innovations: State’s Pursuit for Human Security in South Asia 23
RUMKI BASU
3 Innovations in Government Procurement: Policy Initiatives in India 42
SACHIN CHOWDHRY
4 Innovations in Bangladesh Public Administration: Current Initiatives and Challenges 65
AMIR MOHAMMAD NASRULLAH
5 Understanding Union Digital Centre (UDC) and Its Impact on Service Delivery at Local Level: Case of a Successful e-Governance Model in Bangladesh 90
HAROLD SOUGATO BAROI AND PRANAB KUMAR PANDAY
6 NGOs’ Efforts to Implement Good Governance at the Local Level in Bangladesh: A Comparison of Two Partnership Models 112
MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR HOSSAIN MOJUMDER
7 National ICT Policy in Bangladesh: Issues of Social Equity and Universal Access 133
SADIK HASAN
8 Governance Innovation in South Asia: The Pakistan Governance Journey 147
AMIR JAHANGIR
9 The Nepali Path to Federalism: Making Good Governance in Nepal’s Federal Structure 167
GANGA BAHADUR THAPA, JOEL R. CAMPBELL, AND JAN SHARMA
10 Open Government in Federal Nepal: Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities 188
NARENDRA RAJ PAUDEL AND SRIJANA PAHARI
11 Constitutional Amendments, Institutional Tensions (Crisis), and Governance Quality in Sri Lanka 210
RAMESH RAMASAMY
12 Centralized Pandemic Governance in Sri Lanka 231
MALINI BALAMAYURAN
13 Local Innovation in Sustainable Development: A Story of Lhomon Society, Samdrup Jongkhar, Bhutan 249
SONAM CHUKI
14 South Asia’s Tryst with Innovations in Governance 265
AMIR MOHAMMAD NASRULLAH, SANGITA DHAL AND NACHIKETA SINGH
Index 277
Biography
Sangita Dhal, Professor of Political Science, Kalindi College, University of Delhi, India.
Nachiketa Singh, Professor of Political Science, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi, India.
Amir Mohammad Nasrullah, Professor of Public Administration, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
