Centre for Good Governance, Rajasthan :

As per Budget Announcement made by Chief Minister in 2004-2005, a Centre for Good Governance (CGG) has been established in the HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration in 2004 with a view to coordinate and support the designing and implementation of the State Government's Governance Reforms Programme.

Vision  :

The CGG aims to be a resource and capacity-building institution for the state governments, their various departments and officials and also for local selfgovernments and civil society. It would devote itself fully to providing support to the governmental efforts to reform the systems

 Objectives  : The objectives of the CGG are:  

• To create a knowledge base to be utilized by the stakeholders to continuously  audit systems based on the principles of good governance. on the basis of above studies, to suggest new public management systems in administration, especially under the indicators such as speed, clarity, transparency, predictability, responsiveness, required interface, understanding and execution of rules and procedures in such a way that it fulfils the aims and objectives of the organisation;
•  To organize and support training programmes for the stakeholders to tune in their policies, procedures and outcome with good governance and people's participation in development and also to devise ways to empower people at large;
•  To help strengthen institutions which may function as positive pressure  groups for result-oriented delivery systems;  and restructuring of delivery system;  
• To create a bank of best practices, success stories and successfully tried experiments and tools in governance reforms; and  to promote consultancy services to state and local governments and other national and international organisations in the field of action research and implementation of reforms.

 Goal  :

The goal of the CGG is to bring excellence in governance of the state and to strengthen institutions of civil society for making it sustainable.

Focus area :Focus will be on creation of knowledge-base through conducting action research and studies of government and other organisations for improving performance and developing tools and techniques for performance audit of organisations and persons and on capacity-building programmes for the stakeholders.

 Governing board  :

The Centre is a registered body under Rajasthan Societies Registration Act, 1958. There is an Executive Body and a Governing Body .

Funding :

The Centre is provided annual grant from the State Government every year. Rs. 30 lakhs have been sanctioned for the Centre as grants-in-aid for the Year 2014-2015. Besides, studies, evaluation of schemes and programmes, projects are proposed to various Ministries/Departments of Government of India and money is sanctioned. The Centre conducts several activities under the sponsorship of the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India, New Delhi. At present, the Centre is implementing Sevottam Plan Scheme of Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India. This scheme is available for 5 years.

Sources of inputs :

The CGG will receive inputs from the following sources: Government of Rajasthan through different departments and agencies. Government of India through Department of Personnel and Training, Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry of Finance, Minority Affairs and other related Ministries. International agencies working in the field of good governance. Policy research units working in the area of policy analyses and policy responses, including policy advocacy. Consultants, who provide technical and policy advice.

Activities :

•  Research
•  Documentation and Dissemination of Good Governance Practices
• Documentation of studies/ reports.
• Capacity-building of all stakeholders through action research, studies, training, conferences, workshops etc.

Expected outcomes :

 In qualitative terms, the outcomes will be:

• Creation of knowledge base.
• Creation of capacities in the stakeholders to analyse, articulate and reengineer their policies, processes and procedures and to adopt systems of good governance.
• Strengthening of civil society and citizens to become partners and stakeholders in development.
• Creation of an informed society through popularizing Citizens' Charters and right to information.

In quantitative terms, the outputs will be :

• Study papers on functioning of different stakeholder organisations and their bottlenecks and also suggesting remedial measures.
• Training modules.
• Running training courses, conducting workshops, seminars for stakeholders.
• Publication of, case studies, best practices and success stories.

The Centre conducted following activities during the Year 2012-2013 :

1. Preparation of Training Module on Sensitization of Government Functionaries on Minority Issues (July 2012)

 2. Constitution of A Core Group for preparation of training module on Minority Issues (July 2012)

3. Validation Workshops on Training Modules on Sensitization of Government Functionaries on Minority Issues on 3 August 2012 and 14 December 2012.