location: nan, 'Thailand 
year: 2009 source: HSRI 
title: Governance Index for Health Systems Research Management Units 
abstract:As a part of developing the research management system in Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI) and its alliances, the project of developing good governance index as a tool for research administration in health system is initiated to promote various research projects to be managed transparently, efficiently, and accountability.   The operation of this project will be an empowerment tool which provides good governance practices to reform organizational management system, leading to sustainability and future breakthrough.
Objectives of this project are 1) to define the framework of monitoring and evaluating the project administration in accordance with good governance practices 2) to develop good governance index 3) to study the appropriateness of the developed index, issues, and barriers for index perceived 4) to set a guideline to gather essential data for project performance evaluation which is based on good governance principle of research management team in health system.
The process of this project begins with 1) reviewing theories, concepts, and research reports related to good governance practices and its index both domestically and internationally 2) interviewing experts from related disciplines, and research managements 3) developing and testing questionnaire and then analyzing data 4) using the drafted good governance index to conduct internal pilot test with HSRI  5) reviewing index and modifying it to be more suitably.
According to study, Good Governance means “the good and fair process which diverse organizations including private and public sector, government, and civil society apply to set their own direction. It is regarded as a process to change collective moral intentions to effective and accountable institutional actions”
The result of this study has indicated that two crucial conceptual frameworks of index development has emerged and they are comprised of 1) conforming to six good governance practices including Rule of Law, Transparency, Worthiness, Participation, Quality, Accountability and 2) applying six good governance practices to five steps of the research management process including the process of defining a policy, planning of research management, gathering and allocating resources, operating research, and utilizing research.   Shown in this study are total thirty indices which are collapsed into six composite indices to evaluate holistic picture of good governance practices in research management process.
The outcome of evaluating Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI)’s good governance practices has been depicted that overall in the organizational level HSRI has high good governance practices. When considered in the perspective of five research management process, the process of gathering and allocating resources gains the highest level of engaging good governance practices and is followed by the process of planning the research management as a second.  Other research management processes are evaluated that their involvement in good governance practices are in the middle level.