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Governance Innovation

Security
Governance

livelihoods, people’s centered development and creative conflict transformation.

Governance

Transboundary
Governance

Governance and Development

New Economic
Governance

Alternative development approaches and new metrics of economic performance and well-being.

Development

Governance of
the Commons

Land, food, water, energy, agriculture and natural resources.

Welcome to Governance Innovation

"GovInn is an ‘innovation laboratory’ capable of generating new thinking about governance and development. It focuses on cutting-edge research, attracting innovators from all over the world. In short, GovInn is an intellectual ‘inn’ for innovation in the 21st century." At GovInn we focus on:

Upcoming Event

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration - 2025

A Special Conference to be held at James Madison University’s Washington Center facility, in Washington, DC, 12-15 February 2025.

The Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) is the first research institution in Africa dedicated entirely to governance innovation.

GovInn is an ‘innovation laboratory’ capable of generating new thinking about governance and development. It focuses on cutting-edge research, attracting innovators from all over the world. In short, GovInn is an intellectual ‘inn’ for innovation in the 21st century.

Governance may take the form of a multi-level architecture of decision-making, which develops ‘vertically’ (as is the case, for instance, with supranational institutions and subnational local authorities) and/or a horizontal structure of diffused networks of governance systems (as is the case with the overlapping roles of the public, private and the third sectors). As pointed out by Manuel Castell, governance is a result of a ‘networked society’...

Latest News

Recent Event

GovInn- EU RENEW CONVENTION 2023

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Publications

Book Release

This new book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned.

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