Civil Society and Good Governance
One of the stimulus of the Civil Society activization at the early stages of its activity including countries where it has old traditions and certain achievements was the fact that governmental structures were not able to cope with the functions assigned to them. There were enough reasons - lack of budget financing, monopolistic approach to regulating society and corruption.
The Civil Society and the state structures can and should mutually supplement each other. As a rule, this collaboration affects quality of governance in the best way. Civil society institutions can resolve a number of vulnerable issues of human development much better than the governments can, as well as pursue the governments to develop and implement measures on eliminating existing problems: the issues related to, for example, ensuring gender equality, protection of rights of people with the limited physical opportunities, etc.- Moreover, along with contributing to effective governance on national levels, civil society institutions support establishment of good governance principles on the level of communities. Along with the social impact these activities lead to decrease in cost and improvement of governance, allowing the governmental structures to concentrate on priority, basic directions of social, economic and political development. Not only the theory and practice of foreign countries, but also activities of the Civil Society institutions in the Central Asia countries convince the efficiency of interaction with the governmental structures. This subsection contains links and publication on the issues of effective interaction between the government and civil society for ensuring good governance in the region.
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