Governacao

Chapter three
Social Participation in Water and wastewater Governance: Theories and Goals
3.1 What is Governance and what is not Governance?

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) defines governance as "the exercise of economic, political and administrative head to manage the affairs of a country at all levels. It comprises the mechanisms, processes and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations and conciliate their differences (EUWI, 2006). .

When the jurisdictions say Governance it refers the Governance at the level of Global society. According the International Institute of Accountants (IFAC, 2005) “Governance is concerned with structures and processes for decision-making, accountability, control and behavior at the top of organizations. When the concept is used in the private sector it is often used the term “Corporate Governance”. In other jurisdictions “government governance” is used to describe governance in the public sector.

Governance is the stage following the democratic society and citizenship education Faried Adams (2006) stats “cultivating a particular type of citizen has the potential to make them more critical and thus imbue them with the potential to identify their restricted ability to participate in democratic structures (Adams, 2006)”. Have a democratic a structure is not in itself sufficient to governance happen. Duncan searching regarding the policy governance of the U.S. government.. There is already a program of "Open Government", but the program "Open Governance" of President Obama's agenda should be different. He explains:
“I consider open government as the government establishing a reliable structure and a capability to provide access to information and communication in a standardize manner across the executive branch. Open governance is the practice of facilitating individual and group dialog in collaborative exchanges that enables