Good Governance, Institutional Capacity and Challenges: Case Study of Floods in Pakistan

Abstract

Good Governance includes the preparedness on the behalf of institutions of state in order to face and manage crises among other factors. States are ranked on the index of good governance on the basis of measured characteristics like institutional strength and development of tangible and intangible resources to deal with large scale crises despite having vulnerabilities. Pakistan faced a large scale crisis in the form of monsoon floods in 2022 that affected 116 districts of Punjab, Sindh and KPK altogether and caused massive destruction of houses, crops and livestock. The federal and provincial governments had to take help of non-representative institutions to evacuate people from inundated area. This study endeavors to analyze the institutional strength of representative and non-representative institutions to deal with large scale crisis in Pakistan and the trust of citizens in these institutions as per their policy response and performance in the context of good governance.