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 and 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.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Exploring Innovations in Governance: The South Asian Experience
Sangita Dhal, Nachiketa Singh and Amir Mohammad Nasrullah
Chapter 2: Capacity Building for Effective Governance and Administration in South Asia
Rumki Basu
Chapter 3: Innovations in Government Procurement: Policy Initiatives in India
Sachin Chowdhry
Chapter 4: Innovations in Bangladesh Public Administration: Visions and Challenges
Amir Mohammad Nasrullah
Chapter 5: Understanding Union Digital Centre (UDC) and its Impact on Service Delivery at the Local Level: A Case of a Successful E-Governance Model in Bangladesh
Harold Sougato Baroi and Pranab Kumar Panday
Chapter 6: NGOs’ Efforts to Implement Good Governance at the Local Level in Bangladesh: A Comparison of Two Partnership Models
Mohammad Jahangir Hossain Mojumder
Chapter 7: National ICT Policy in Bangladesh: Issues of Ensuring Social Equity & Universal Access
Sadik Hasan
Chapter 8: Governance Innovation in South Asia: The Pakistan Story
Amir Jahangir
Chapter 9: The Nepali Path to Federalism: Making Good Governance in Nepal’s Federal Structure
Ganga Bahadur Thapa, Joel R. Campbell and Jan Sharma
Chapter 10: Open Government in the Election Methods of Federal Nepal:
Challenges, Constraints and Opportunities
Narendra Raj Paudel and Srijana Pahari
Chapter 11: Constitutional Amendments, Institutional Tensions (Crisis) and Governance Quality in Sri Lanka
Ramesh Ramasamy
Chapter 12: Centralized administration and pandemic governance in Sri Lanka
Malini Balamayuran
Chapter 13: Local Innovation in Sustainable Development: A Story of Lhomon Society, Samdrup Jongkhar, Bhutan
Sonam Chuki
Chapter 14: Concluding Observation : South Asia’s Tryst With Innovations in Governance
Amir Mohammad Nasrullah, Sangita Dhal and Nachiketa Singh
Biography
Sangita Dhal, Professor of Political Science, Kalindi College, University of Delhi, India.
Nachiketa Singh, Professor of Political Science, Sri Guru TeghBahadurKhalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Amir Mohammad Nasrullah, Professor of Public Administration, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
