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Good governance of marine fisheries: concepts and intervention framework of the SmartFish Programme

Year of publication 2014

Pages 4p.

Author Breuil, C.;Yvergniaux, Y.

Publisher FAO/IOC ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Basically, governance refers to the way of ‘governing’. Likewise, good governance means to govern well, although “to govern well” may call on subjective notions and socio-cultural considerations. However, unanimity tends to emerge at the international level which associates good governance to the idea of a State using modes of regulation and steering of public policies that are more efficient and closer to public interests. This notion of a «better State» in the exercise of power (beyond the opp osition between political views such as more vs. less State intervention) refers to processes that are guided by a number of virtuous principles such as access to information, dialogue with users, promotion of public-private partnerships for the production of certain services, the fight against corruption or the effective management of public resources (efficiency of public action).

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