Assessment of the Prevalence of Good Governance in Public Sector: the Case of Selected Public Institutions in Addis Ababa City of Ethiopia

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.