Misappropriated Development: Exploring Accountability as the Rate-determining Step to the Realisation of the Right to Development in Select African Countries

IF 0.1 Q4 LAW
Rita Ozoemena
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The right to development seeks to provide the enabling environment for the participation, contribution and well-being of persons in their freedom to enjoy their socio-economic development. The realisation of the right to development, therefore, imposes a duty on the state to ensure that the basic needs of the people are met without any impairment. The challenge in promoting the quality of life of the people as envisaged in the right to development often falls on a strong public service where accountability is a core component. Misappropriation of allocated funds, especially in the public sector, results in misgovernance of the institutions of state. Africa also struggles with the misappropriation of public funds, which hinders the provision of basic goods and quality services for the well-being of the population. Accountability, therefore, is the rate-determining step to the social, economic, political and cultural development of the people. In this article, the concept of the rate-determining step seeks to eliminate the challenges to the process of development to engender social transformation, with specific reference to Nigeria and South Africa. Rampant corruption and misgovernance in many provinces, especially the Free State, undermine South Africa’s strength in fulfilling its development plans. Nigeria is an oil-rich country, yet the region where the oil is produced remains impoverished. This article focuses on accountability as the essential element in curbing misgovernance and misappropriation and examines the development agenda of these regions and the rate-determining step to the realisation of these development objectives, with a view to advancing a development model that puts the individual at the core of its development programmes and processes.
被挪用的发展:探索问责制作为特定非洲国家实现发展权的决定性步骤
发展权力求提供有利的环境,使人们能够自由地参与、贡献和享受其社会经济发展。因此,要实现发展权,国家就有责任确保人民的基本需要得到不受损害的满足。如发展权所设想的那样,促进人民生活质量的挑战往往落在强有力的公共服务机构身上,其中问责制是一个核心组成部分。挪用拨款,特别是在公共部门,导致国家机构管理不善。非洲还在与挪用公共资金作斗争,这妨碍了为人民的福祉提供基本商品和优质服务。因此,问责制是人民的社会、经济、政治和文化发展的决定性步骤。在本文中,费率决定步骤的概念力求消除发展进程所面临的挑战,以产生社会变革,具体提到尼日利亚和南非。在许多省份,特别是自由邦,猖獗的腐败和管理不善削弱了南非实现其发展计划的力量。尼日利亚是一个石油资源丰富的国家,但产油地区仍然贫困。本文将重点关注作为遏制不当治理和挪用的基本要素的问责制,并审查这些地区的发展议程和实现这些发展目标的速度决定步骤,以期推进一种将个人置于其发展计划和进程核心的发展模式。
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