GOOD GOVERNANCE AGENDA 2025

Good Governance Agenda 2025 aims to offer innovative policy approach to the systemic governance challenges in Bosnia and Herzegovina caused dominantly by capturing the state by ethno-nationalist elites. Over the prolonged period the situation with rule of law and governance in the country has been deteriorating and endangering’ citizens basic human rights.

Good Governance Agenda 2025 offers an empirically grounded theory of change by pinpointing causal links between specific reforms and actual transitions. It broadens the scope for anti-corruption beyond typical measures, potentially liberating these efforts from obstruction by political elites. The starting point of this approach is a thesis that transitions from state captured regimes to regimes based on rule of law are political and not only technical-legal processes.

In that regard, this approach is focused less on technical/legal reform and more on shifting fundamental relations of accountability by promoting ‘deep democratization’ or stronger, more functional administration through rationalization and e-governance.

Agenda 2025 was presented at the conference “Priorities in the fight against corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina” on December 1, 2022. held on the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day.