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2019 - Baku, Azerbaijan

United Nations Public Service Forum and Awards Ceremony 2019

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The 2019 United Nations Public Service Forum (UNPSF) will take place in the Republic of Azerbaijan from 24 to 26 June 2019, under the theme ‘Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through effective Delivery of Services, Innovative Transformation and Accountable Institutions’.

The Forum is organized by the State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) through its Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) together with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Several partners will also be engaged in organizing parallel workshops or side events.

Effective, inclusive and accountable public-sector institutions are critical for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the achievement of the SDGs. They play a key role in achieving interlinkages and policy coherence; designing national development strategies and plans, developing infrastructure, mobilizing resources, monitoring and evaluating public programmes, projects and development activities, and equipping public servants with the capacities to implement the SDGs. They also have an important role to play in providing inclusive services to better serve citizens and leave no one behind, including through digital government.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for innovative transformation and puts forward values and principles such as ‘leaving no one behind’, integration, partnerships, and universality, which need to be translated into action. Both SDG 16 and SDG 10 are highly relevant to the focus of the 2019 United Nations Public Service Forum. Public institutions need to embrace innovation and transformation to deliver more effective, timely and responsive services, and embody the principles of transparency, accountability and inclusion.

The Forum will provide a platform for Ministers and other senior decision makers to reflect on how to advance progress in realizing the SDGs. Participants will also have the opportunity to debate emerging issues and trends, discuss good practices, strategies and innovative approaches for effective service delivery and innovative transformation in delivering on the SDGs and leaving no one behind, a cross cutting tenet of the 2030 Agenda. It will be a moment to reflect on common challenges and exchange lessons learned from the new approaches and innovations that are being experimented worldwide.

General Information

Aide-Memoire

Working Agenda (Updated on 22 June, 2019)

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Plenary Sessions

Plenary 2

SDG 16: Making institutions more effective through enhanced accountability, transparency, inclusion and participation.

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Plenary 3

Innovation driving transformation

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Workshops

Delivering inclusive and equitable services to leave no one behind (DESA)

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Speakers' Bios

Presentations:

• Professor Andrew Massey, Associate Dean of Internationalisation and Development, University of Exeter, UK. – ‘Public Service Delivery in Action to Leave no one behind: how do we ensure accountability?’

• Ms. Natalia Abashmadze, Deputy CEO and Chief Operations Officer, Public Service Hall, Georgia - Georgian trademark and showcase of successful public service delivery model.

• Mr. Namsuk Kim, Economic Affairs Officer, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN DESA – ‘Capacity development using economic modelling tools: example of Belt and Road and SDGs’

• Ms. Lamia Moubayed Bissat, Director, Institute of Finances Basil Fuleihan, Lebanon -  Mobilizing resources for delivering services leaving no one behind.

Innovators Panel: Presentations of Winners from Category one of the 2019 UNPSA:

• Upscaling Basic Sanitation for Urban Poor (UBSUP)- Kenya

• The waste Collection Programme of Jaboatao dos Guararapes, Brazil

• Victorian Rabbit Action Network, Australia

Ensuring integrated approaches in public-sector institutions (DESA)

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Speakers' Bios

Participant's list

Meeting Report

 

 

Presentations:

 

• Ms. Valentina Resta, Senior Governance and Public Administration Officer, UN DESA - Introduction on Workshop Objectives

• Ms. Mouchera Karara, Head of Technical Team and Senior Economic Analyst, Ministry of Planning and Administrative Reform, Arab Republic of Egypt - Ensuring Integrated Approaches for the Implementation of SDGs

• Ms. Carina Lindberg, Policy Advisor, Policy Coherence and Sustainable Development Unit, Public Governance Directorate, OECD - Governance for the SDGs Mechanisms and tools for ensuring integrated implementation

• Prof. Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Graduate School of Education, University of California Berkeley, USA - The Implementation Challenge, Ongoing Teacher Education and Support to Achieve the UN's SDGs

• H.E. Mr. Mukhtar Babayev, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Republic of Azerbaijan - Integrated Approaches to address climate change

• Mr. Dody Ruswandi Secretary General of Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana and Ms. Mahardika Fadmastuti, Research Manager of Yayasan Peta Bencana - Reducing risk from disasters and increasing integrated emergency response in Indonesia “PetaBencana.id” initiative

• Mr. Samir Nuriyev, Chairman of the State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture, Republic of Azerbaijan - Role of urban planning in achieving sustainable development goals

• Ms. Shaila Shahid, Senior Advisor, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, People's Republic of Bangladesh - Gender in urban climate policy and action: towards a gender-just, climate resilient cities and communities. Lessons from South Asia

• Mr. Uchita de Zoysa, Executive Director, Centre for Environment and Development and Chairman Global Sustainability Solutions, Sri Lanka - Part 1, Part 2

Developing effective and accountable public institutions (DESA)

Transfiguring Digital Transformation for the Sustainable Development Goals (DESA)

Promoting gender responsive public services to achieve the SDGs (UN WOMEN/DESA)

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Innovation in Government for Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups to Achieve the SDGs (UNPOG)

Mobilizing and equipping public servants to realise the 2030 Agenda (UNPOG)

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Presentations:

• Ms. Lori Foster, Professor of Psychology, North Carolina State University, USA, University of Cape Town, South Africa: Changing Public Service Behaviour and Transforming Mindsets to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

• Mr. Martin Mahe, Department of Strategic Policy, Planning and Aid Coordination (DSPPAC) and Vanuatu Public Services Commission: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through effective Delivery of Services, Innovative Transformation and Accountable Institutions

• Mr. Alex B. Brillantes, Jr, President, Asian Association for Public Administration Professor, University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance: Global Trends, Regional and National Perspectives on PA Readiness for the 2030 Agenda: Asia

• Ms. Jessica Omundo, AAPAM Programme Officer: Trends of Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Curricula of Schools of Public Administration and Institutes of Public Management.

• Mr. Francisco Javier Velazquez Lopez, CLAD Secretary-General: How to Strengthen the Public Sector Capabilities in the Region in Order to Implement and Manage Sustainable Development?

• Mr. Narayan Gopal Malego, Senior Director of Studies: Towards Competent Civil Service: Nepalese Experience

• Mr. Dante Mendoza Antonioli: Mobilizing and equipping public servants to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

• Ms. Savia Mugwanya, Civil Service College: Mobilising and Equipping Public Servants to realise the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

• Mr. Marco Tulio Cajas, Director of National Institute of Public Administration Guatemala: Advancing Public Service Renewal through Certification Process in Guatemala

• Ms. Lamia Moubayed Bissat, Member of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration: The Eleven Principles of Effective Governance for Sustainable Development

• Ms. Adriana Alberti, Chief, Programme Management and Capacity Development Unit, UNDESA: Building Institutional Capacity to Implement the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

• Mr. Stephan Mergenthaler: How do Institutions Change? An Agenda for Institutional Transformation

• Professor M. Adil Khan, Professor of Development Practice School of Social Science University of Queensland Australia: How can Transformational Leaders and Changing Mindsets Impact Society’s Shared Values, Culture, Social Norms and Impact for SDGs?

• Ms. Päivi Hirvola, Director of Societal Training and Development Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra: How can Changes in Mindsets Lead to Changes in Public Service Performance to Deliver on the SDGs? What Capacities and New Values Need to be Put in Place?

• Ms. Kuralay Baibatyrova, Project Expert, Astana Civil Service Hub: Methodologies to Transform Mindsets in Public Service: the Experience of the ACSH

• Mr. Namsuk Kim, UN DESA: How can Public Service Capacity be Enhanced by Using Economic Analytical Tools?

• Mr. Alexander Heichlinger, Co-Founder & Chair CEFG Group, Expert & Manager, European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) Barcelona, Spain: From ACB to MCB to Effectively Change Mindsets and Drive Change Towards the Implementation of the SDGs: European Insights and Practices

• Dr. M Aslam Alam, Rector (Senior Secretary) Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Dhaka, Bangladesh: An Overview and Impact of the Asian Taskforce of the Global Initiatives for Schools of Public Administration on Implementing the SDGs

 

 

Future of public services: linking government performance with the power of disruptive technologies in the context of 2030 Agenda (Azerbaijan)

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Effective model for the delivery of public services contributing to the realization of human rights and the SDGs

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