| Abstract: | Having seen its desperate importance and the great efforts of the government in achieving
good governance, this study stands to assess governance in public institutions making its
topic “an assessment of the prevalence of good governance in public Sector: the case of
selected Public institutions in Addis Ababa city of Ethiopia”.
The main objective of the study is assessing how far good governance is prevalent in public
sector institutions and the research was conducted on five public institutions purposefully
selected in Addis Ababa city of Ethiopia. The study employed qualitative research
methodology and data was collected through questionnaire method and the data obtained both
from civil servants and service users together with the information obtained through
interviews from selected officials. The descriptive analysis revealed that institutions are
striving to achieve good governance practically in their institutions. Based on the analysis
conducted using five core elements of good governance namely participation, effectiveness
and efficiency, accountability, transparency and equity and equality different achievements
and failures were observed. Frameworks and mechanisms for good governance
implementation are found ready. The necessity of engaging the society in full scale
participation, the need for trainings, workshop, seminars on good governance, increasing
implementing capacity of the institutions, the necessity of using different mass medias for
good governance issues , struggling against corruptions are recommended for amending the
failures in public institutions in their attempts to achieve good governance. |
