By contrast, this paper compares three PES programs from a forest landscape in Cambodia, where land and resource rights are poorly defined, governance is poor, species populations are low and threats are high.
In developing governance indicators, the World Bank broadly defined governance "... as the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised" (p.2) [ 16].
Well- defined governance allows for clear decision-making, and milestones allow you to assess progress and mitigate problems.
The original Roman canon law that defined governance within the Church clearly needed revision following Henry's break with Rome.
Gottweis et al. defined governance as "[a] multifaceted compound situation of institutions, systems, structures, processes, procedures, practices, relationships and leadership behaviour in the exercise of social, political, economic, and managerial/administrative authority in the running of public or private affairs" [ 8].
The United Kingdom Department for International Development DFIDdefinedned governance in terms of institutions, rules and systems of the state.
Brinkerhoff et al., defined governance as the rules that distribute roles and responsibility among societal actors and that shape the interaction among them [ 4].
Since the early 1990s, several institutions have defined governance at state level (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, Department for International Development (DFID) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), among others) so as to address challenges in development [ 3].
We define governance as (1) setting a shared strategic direction and objectives; (2) making policies, laws, rules, regulations, or decisions, and raising and deploying resources to accomplish strategic goals and objectives; and (3) overseeing and making sure that the strategic goals and objectives are accomplished [ 21].
At the same time, this paper is a plea to authors to make explicit and to define governance concepts that are used in HRH interventions and studies, and to develop a common governance vocabulary.
We wanted to define governance.
