To better assess good democratic governance, civil society actors want to put in place their own measurement tools, beyond Mo Ibrahim, corruption perception indices. This is the new commitment of Cosce, which wants the endogenization of our tools and instruments for measuring good governance. By Justin GOMIS –
Despite pre-electoral tensions, Senegal did not miss its democratic turn in 2024. With the new regime, which has demonstrated its desire to improve governance, our country wants to equip itself with its own tool for good governance. “We must move towards the endogenization of our tools and instruments for measuring good governance,” announces Moundiaye Cissé, president of the NGO 3D. He makes a damning observation: “All the tools, the instruments of governance, whether democratic governance, economic governance, generally come to us from outside. For example, the Mo Ibrahim index, the corruption index. These are tools that come to us from elsewhere.” And it is for this reason, he continues, that the Collective of Civil Society Organizations for Elections (Cosce) decided to invest in ensuring that Senegal has its own tools for measuring good governance. “Yes, these tools are good, but we need to have tools that are unique to us. Tools in line with our socio-cultural realities,” he explains.
An approach that will allow Senegal to be able to talk about its own economic sovereignty, its own food sovereignty and its own monetary sovereignty. “On the governance front, we also need to have our own sovereignty and our own measure of governance. This is what motivated Cosce to work in collaboration with the British Embassy to develop a framework for democratic governance and ultimately set up the observatory for good democratic governance,” notes Moundiaye Cissé.
To achieve this objective, which consists of making it a Senegalese tool articulated on our socio-cultural values, a pre-evaluation workshop of the framework of the observatory of democratic and political governance in Senegal was organized yesterday by Cosce with the civil society actors.
-Its mission will be to contribute to the consolidation of democracy in Senegal through an independent monitoring, alert and analysis system for democratic and political governance. In fact, its general objective will consist of establishing an effective system for monitoring and evaluating the quality of democratic governance in Senegal.
At the same time, this repository will also aim to ensure monitoring, analysis and dialogue. However, for its use, the actors intend to rely on international experience, while ensuring that there is no external influence. For Cosce, “everything must be anchored in our own values and realities by emphasizing the fundamental values of ethics and morality and seeking a harmonious balance between tradition and modernity”.
In fact, this framework will be like a participatory and inclusive steering system anchored in traditional values of dialogue while embracing contemporary democratic principles. The actors intend to develop it through dimensional, territorial and societal aspects. In this process, all the other civil society actors present at this validation workshop of this framework, promised to tune their violins to have the instruments of good democratic, economic and political governance.
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