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Home page  About CSIS Programs Hills Program on Governance Mission Statement
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Mission Statement
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Mission Statement
The National Governance Centers ("Centers") of the Hills Program on Governance (“Hills Program”) seek to promote good governance across the private, public, and civic sectors by addressing institutional sources of corruption and promoting transparency and accountability within and among those sectors. The Centers will advance good governance by conducting rigorous research and analysis and disseminating the results, facilitating sectoral and regional dialogue, and developing educational tools to improve governance today and empower those who will ensure good governance tomorrow.
In the short term, the Centers will focus on corporate governance challenges, and norms governing the interactions between private sector actors and public sector agencies. They will seek to facilitate research and dialogues (through their national websites and training programs) in order to improve governance practices – including business ethics – in various countries, identify the costs of misgovernance, and develop benchmarks for corporate governance reform. Their work in this period will be aimed at corporate directors, CEOs, and CFOS, as well as mid-level executives, accountants, and auditors.
In the long term, the Centers may expand their focus to include governance issues more broadly defined, including governance in the public sector. They will seek ways to reduce the costs of and incentives for misgovernance, develop locally applicable good governance practices, and develop an educational and career roadmap in order to make more attractive professions concerning governance or professional ethics. Their work in this period will be aimed at government officials (including parliamentarians and other elected officials), business and public policy graduate school students, and possibly high school students.
In all of their endeavors, the Centers will aim to:
- Nurture a close and mutually reinforcing working relationships with professional associations, governments, civil society organizations, and research institutions dedicated to supporting and promoting good governance initiatives.
- Build partnerships to ensure full involvement of major stakeholders, identify strategic entry points for intervention and collaboration, and advocate good governance.
- Help create an enabling environment for building consensus, coordinating and sharing expertise, and facilitating further policy dialogue on good governance.
- Disseminate best practices and raise awareness amongst stakeholders.
Eight Guiding Principles
General Principles
1. Accountability – Good governance requires the absence of corruption and the presence of strong and effectively enforced internal checks and balances
2. Transparency – Effective governance structures are best monitored in an environment where existing conditions, decisions, and actions are made visible and understandable to all market participants
3. Locality – Lasting governance solutions are not imposed from outside but rather built from within countries and their businesses/governments, taking into account how cultural traditions and values shape institutions and rules
4. Mutuality – No governance problem can be solved in isolation; the negative effects of poor governance in one sector (private, public, civic) are shared by all other sectors
Functional Principles
5. Institutional Reform – Improving governance practices by strengthening systems of accountability and removing institutional incentives for misgovernance, enables improved professional ethics in every sector
6. Capacity Building – The training of executives, government officials, and accountants results in active incorporation of best practices into institutions
7. Scholarship – Problems of governance are complex, and so entail complex solutions obtained through intensive research and analysis
8. Communication – Strategies for improving governance work best when they are effectively conveyed to those who will determine the shape of governance
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