Article
French
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Abstract
Common and global public resources are of a composite nature, depending on a lot of actors, historical circumstances and governmental levels (there are no innate GPG). Because of their publicness, their definition, production, consumption and assessment (monitoring) is a case for communities and peoples involved. Their goods character should guarantee that all benefit, in particular the poor. Their globalness means that they require intense cooperation between nations, groups of experts, NGO’s, professions and economic partners. In the article a distinction is made between three processes of identifying, managing and assessing GPSs: 1. Political decision making: Who decides whether to make a good public or private? Definition of the quality of common goods and interest. 2. Production of public goods: who pays what? Financing and management; and Consumption of public goods: Fair and equal access: International and global Management. In the study we outlined the advantages and disadvantages of several types of management regimes, dependent on low or high complexity of moral issues and the political playing field. As in the consultations on definition and quality of GPG, here also ethical guidelines for stakeholder management of GPGs (rights of access, exit, and voice) apply. 3. Accountability: setting targets, assigning responsibilities, for the global goods to be produced, monitoring and assessing the results, correcting mistakes and mistaken routes of the production of global goods. With respect to the growing demand for accountability (monitoring and assessing of management regimes), we outlined the importance of independent agencies and public spaces. However, we also underlined the need for accountability structures for these agencies (NGO’s), as, of course, for international institutions. Therefore, next to formal organisations, informal public spaces are necessary to give voice to opinions and channel them towards the auditing process.