This study sought to establish the critical underpinnings for the organisational effectiveness of regional integration institutions (RIIs). The interest arose out of a general observation of failure by RIIs in Africa to effectively achieve the objectives for which they were established. Informed by theories of organisational effectiveness, the study hypothesised that RIIs are likely to be effective in achieving the objectives for which they were established if the basic fundamentals of organisational effectiveness theory are embedded in their institutional structures, systems and processes. The East African Community (EAC) was used as a unit of analysis. A comparative analysis of the world's most advanced RII, the European Union (EU) was also undertaken. The findings revealed that the basic fundamentals of organisational effectiveness theory are only weakly ingrained in the EAC while deeply embedded in the EU. Recommendations were made on how the EAC could improve its organisational effectiveness. / PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / MA (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION)

[pt] Este trabalho buscou analisar a cooperação intergovernamental entre o governo federal e o governo estadual do Rio de Janeiro no período de 2007 a 2016. Tal cooperação foi resultado de um contexto histórico – e de condições políticas específicas - no qual foi possível uma aliança política nacional entre o PMDB e o PT. Desde a mudança da capital para Brasília, em 1960, culminando com a fusão da Guanabara-Estado do Rio de Janeiro, em 1975, foi imperioso para o novo estado se reposicionar no jogo federativo nacional, que ganhou nova dinâmica com a redemocratização e com o ambiente inaugurado pela Constituição de 1988. A ascensão do PMDB ao governo do estado do Rio de Janeiro, nos anos 2000, com o Governo Sérgio Cabral, mobilizou expectativas positivas, diante da possiblidade de tratamento diferenciado por parte do governo federal, com repercussão favorável nos investimentos em infraestrutura, nas áreas sociais e na segurança pública. Entretanto, a cooperação entre os dois níveis federativos mostrou suas limitações ao longo do tempo. No plano político, a parceria deu sinais de esgotamento a partir da eleição de 2014, com a ruptura da aliança estadual entre o PMDB e o PT, e mais efetivamente com o final do Governo Dilma Rousseff, indicando seu caráter conjuntural. Além disso, problemas de improbidade administrativa no âmbito do governo estadual, reveladas nos anos recentes, mostraram a permanência de práticas políticas antigas e condenáveis, e ausência de mecanismos de controle mais efetivos na realização de obras públicas. No plano econômico, a pesquisa mostrou evidências de que a cooperação intergovenamental não construiu, no período de 2007 a 2016, as condições necessárias para que o estado fluminense pudesse tornar sustentável o bom momento de desenvolvimento que vivenciou no início da parceria, e também pouco mudou a reduzida autonomia fiscal do estado do Rio de Janeiro, próxima dos estados mais dependentes do governo federal, o que explica em boa medida o colapso das contas públicas ocorrido em junho de 2016. / [en] This work aims to analyze the intergovernmental cooperation between the federal government and the state government of Rio de Janeiro in the period from 2007 to 2016. Such cooperation was the result of a historical context - and specific political conditions - in which a national political alliance was possible between PMDB and PT. Since the move of the capital to Brasília, in 1960, culminating in the merger of Guanabara-State of Rio de Janeiro, in 1975, it was imperative for the new state to reposition itself in the national federative game, which gained new dynamics with the redemocratization and with the environment inaugurated by the 1988 Constitution. The rise of the PMDB to the government of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the 2000s, with the Sérgio Cabral Government, mobilized positive expectations, given the possibility of different treatment by the federal government, with favorable repercussions in the investments in infrastructure, social areas and public security. However, cooperation between the two federal levels has shown its limitations over time. On the political level, the partnership showed signs of exhaustion as of the 2014 election, with the rupture of the state alliance between the PMDB and the PT, and more effectively with the end of the Dilma Rousseff government, indicating its cyclical nature. In addition, problems of administrative impropriety within the scope of the state government, revealed in recent years, have shown the permanence of old and reprehensible political practices, and the absence of more effective control mechanisms in carrying out public works. At the economic level, the research showed evidence that intergovernmental cooperation did not build, in the period from 2007 to 2016, the necessary conditions for the state of Rio de Janeiro to make sustainable the good moment of development that it experienced at the beginning of the partnership, and also little has changed the reduced fiscal autonomy of the state of Rio de Janeiro, close to the states most dependent on the federal government, which largely explains the collapse of public accounts in June 2016.