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UN DESA Policy Brief No. 136: Promoting non-discrimination in public administration: some entry points
Promoting non-discrimination in public administration: some entry points
Key messages
Public administration can both serve as a vehicle for discrimination and provide channels to address it.
Research is needed, in particular from developing…
| Capacity Development Reports | Sound Policymaking | Public Institutions
Report on Resilience and Recovery from Covid-19 Through Sound Policymaking
This report summarizes the key highlights and messages that were conveyed by the facilitators, speakers, and participants during the Regional Webinar Series on “How to Promote Resilience and Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa through…
| Policy Briefs | Public Institutions
UN/DESA Policy Brief #116: A view of Changes in Institutional Arrangements for SDG Implementation at the National Level Since 2015
Five years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with one third of the implementation period of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals having elapsed, it is important to take stock of relevant institutional arrangements at…
| Policy Briefs | Local Governance | Public Institutions
UN/DESA Policy Brief #115: Horizontal and vertical integration are more necessary than ever for COVID-19 recovery and SDG implementation
Horizontal and vertical integration are more necessary than ever for COVID-19 recovery and SDG implementation
Summary
By putting stress on national socio-economic systems, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed new tensions and trade-offs among policy…
| Policy Briefs | Participation and Accountability | Public Institutions
UN/DESA Policy Brief #114: Connecting the Dots: The Still Elusive Synergies Between Accountability Institutions and the Follow-up and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda highlights the importance of the follow-up and review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an accountability mechanism and sets clear principles to guide it. Accountability institutions such as parliaments and supreme audit…
| World Public Sector Reports | Public Institutions
World Public Sector Report 2021
National institutional arrangements for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: A five-year stocktaking
Institutions are paramount to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and all the Sustainable Development…
| SDG 16 Conference Reports | Public Institutions
Report of the SDG 16 Conference
The 2021 global SDG 16 Conference – Transforming Governance for a more Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Future: SDG 16 as the roadmap to respond to COVID-19 and build back better – came to a successful conclusion on Friday, 30 April 2021, following six…
| Capacity Development Reports | Public Institutions
2021 Snapshots of Capacity Development Activities
This report provides a snapshot of the capacity development activities undertaken by UN DESA’s Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) in 2021. During 2021 DPIDG:
Organized 30+ capacity development activities with 79…
| Policy Briefs | Participation and Accountability | Public Institutions
Resilient Institutions in Times of Crisis: Transparency, Accountability and Participation at the National Level Key to Effective Response to COVID-19
National institutions are strongly impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19). The pandemic has disrupted to varying extents the regular functioning of state institutions, such as parliaments and justice systems, and affected key government functions…
| Policy Briefs | Public Institutions
COVID-19: Reaffirming State-People Governance Relationships
The emergence and spread of the coronavirus in late 2019 and the impact of its disease, COVID-19, which has been categorized by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic, is, at the time of writing, ongoing.
Efforts by governments to…
| Compendia | Public Institutions
Compendium of National Institutional Arrangements for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
In the four years since the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into effect, countries across the world have made significant efforts to establish the institutional arrangements necessary for the successful implementation of the sustainable…
| World Public Sector Reports | Public Institutions
World Public Sector Report 2019
Sustainable Development Goal 16: Focus on public institutions
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prominently feature institutions, both as a cross-cutting issue in many of the goals and as a standalone goal (SDG 16). The…