The development literature is replete with failed attempts to reform public sector governance in developing countries. This book argues that technocratic approaches to public sector reform are unlikely to succeed in the empowerment through a rights-based approach to demand accountability from their governments and through a results-based culture of governance holds significant potential for success. The authors present a comprehensive framework to accomplish these goals through institutional reforms, and they highlight examples from international practices in which elements of such approaches...

'Development as Leadership-led Change' presents the findings of the "Global Leadership Initiative Research Study," which examines leadership in the change processes of fourteen capacity development interventions in eight developing countries. The paper explores what it takes to make change happen in the context of development, and in particular, the role leadership plays in bringing about change. The analysis and findings conclude that leadership manifests itself in different ways in different contexts, depending on readiness, factors that shape change, and leadership opportunities. However,...