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The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Division for Public Institutions
and Digital Government (DPIDG), is organizing two Capacity Development Workshops on “Changing Mindsets for Innovation and Public Sector Transformation” in collaboration with the Caribbean Centre for Administration Development (CARICAD) and the Caribbean Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). It will be held in person from 24th to 26th March 2025 in Nassau, NP The Bahamas. One workshop is directed to the 26 Permanent Secretaries of The Bahamas and their key staff. The second workshop is directed to General Directors, Senior Public Officers at the level of Directors, Director Generals, Heads of Agencies and Authorities and Chairman of Boards/Board of Directors in charge of public policy implementation. At the request of the Director of Labour of the Ministry of Labour and Public Service, representatives of the youth (students of the International School of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology - ISBET) will participate in the event.
The Workshops are being organized within the framework of the project on “Developing Capacities for Innovation, Digital Government Transformation and Changing Mindsets in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) (DA2427J)” which is being implemented by the Bahamas Ministry of Labour & the Public Service, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (UN DESA/DPIDG) and the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) in collaboration with the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the UN Resident Coordinator Offices in the region. The project aims to strengthen public sector national capacities for innovation, digital government transformation and changing mindsets by strengthening public servants’ skills, knowledge, and understanding of the importance of public sector transformation. The project also aims to strengthen the capacity of selected countries in the Caribbean SIDS to mobilize their institutions and public servants to enhance effectiveness and institutional coordination, public accountability, and engagement of key stakeholders in the implementation and review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Lessons learned and experiences will be shared among countries in the region during the life of the project.
Workshop 1: Changing Mindsets for Innovation and Public Sector Transformation | 24 March, 2025
Changing Mindsets for Innovation and Public Sector Transformation, Adriana Alberti
CARICAD Public Sector Transformation Schema, Lois Parkes
Harnessing the Potential of AI to Create Public Value in the Caribbean, Dale Alexander
Workshop 2: Changing Mindsets for Innovation and Public Sector Transformation | 25-26 March, 2025
The Quintet of Change and Key Mindsets and Competencies Needed for Governance Transformation
Mindsets (Behavioural Science), Adriana Alberti
Innovation, Cristina Rodriguez-Acosta
Systems Thinking and Strategic Foresight, Azeema Adam
Data and Digital Governance, Armando Guiro
AI for Public Value Creation Exercise
ECLAC Caribbean Knowledge Management: https://www.cepal.org/en/organizational-unit/knowledge-management
Caribbean Centre for Development Administration: https://www.caricad.net/
Useful readings, knowledge resources and training material:
Publications and reports:
- Principles of Effective Governance for Sustainable Development
- Strategy Guidance Notes on Subsidiarity and on Strategic Foresight
- Publication on Changing Mindsets
- UN E-Government Survey 2024
- World Public Sector Report
- Data Governance, in E-Government Survey 2020
- Global Sustainable Development Report
- Inter-agency policy briefs on accelerating progress on the 2030 Agenda from local to global levels: The critical importance of SDG localization
- Foresight and the World of Work
- Online course on Systems Thinking for Public Sector Transformation
- Online course on Ethics and public integrity at the institutional and policy level - Oversight Institutions, and Fundamentals of Ethics and Public Integrity
Training materials:
- Curriculum on Governance for the SDGs
- Training toolkit on changing mindsets
- Training toolkit on Effective National to local governance
- Training toolkit on innovation
- Training toolkit on local e-government
Knowledge bases:
- UN eGovernment Knowledge Base
- UN Public Service Innovation Hub
- Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre (CKMC) Virtual Library: https://caribbean.eclac.org/information-resources/website/caribbean-knowledge-management-centre-ckmc-virtual-book-display