Democratic Governance and Human Development: Stocktaking and Future Strategies

The success of the democratic process in a country depends on the capability and integrity of the organs of the state, institutions of governance and the extent of people?s participation in governance. Democracy, in fact, involves dignity, diversity, dissent and development. Unless the last person celebrates his/her sense of dignity, exercises democratic dissent and involves himself/herself in the process of governance and development, democracy remains an empty rhetoric. Therefore, human development cannot sustain without good governance and governance cannot be sound unless it sustains human development.