Bienvenidos a las Naciones Unidas
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Participation and Accountability
Report on the Expert Group Meeting on Citizen Engagement in Climate Change Governance: Citizens for a Sustainable Future
The UNDESA-DPADM supported Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in its World Civic Forum 2009 initiative, held from 5 to 8 May 2009 in Seoul, Korea. The overarching theme of the forum was Building Our Humanitarian Planet, espoused by three sub-themes…
| Reports | Public Institutions
World e-Parliament Conference Report 2009
The World e-Parliament Conference 2009 took place at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., on 3, 4 and 5 November 2009. The conference was co-organized by the United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the U.S. House of…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Digital Government
Report of the Expert Group Meeting on E-Government Survey: Getting to the Next Level
The United Nations E-Government Survey is one of the major recurrent flagship publications of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). It has…
| Compendia | Public Service Innovation
Compendium of Best Practices and Innovations in Public Administration: Success Stories from the Winners and Finalists of the 2008 United Nations Public Service Awards
The United Nations Public Service Awards Programme (UNPSA) is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. It rewards the creative achievements and the contributions of public service institutions to a more…
| Good Practices and Innovations in Public Governance | Public Service Innovation
Innovation in Governance and Public Administration to Achieve the United Nations Development Goals
This publication provides a summary of the findings and lessons learned from the Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on “Innovation in Governance and Public Administration for the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals” which was held at United…
| Good Practices and Innovations in Public Governance | Public Service Innovation
Good Practices and Innovations in Public Governance: United Nations Public Service Winners 2003 - 2009
This publication provides an overview of 85 successful innovations in governance and public administration from 40 countries that received the United Nations Public Service Awards, which is the most prestigious international recognition of…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Public Institutions
Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Lessons Learned in Post-Conflict State Capacity: Reconstructing Governance and Public Administration Capacities in Post Conflict Countries
As part of the efforts to prepare the World Public Sector Report on “Reconstructing Public Administration in Post-Conflict Countries: Challenges, Practices and Lessons Learned”, DPADM organized (in Accra, Ghana in October 2008) an Ad Hoc Expert…
| Capacity Development Reports | Transformational Leadership and New Mindsets
Building a Developmental State: Strategies for Attracting and Retaining High Quality Staff in the Public Service in Africa
Building a Developmental State: Strategies for Attracting and Retaining High Quality Staff in the Public Service in Africa is a presentation during the 30th Africa Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM) Annual Roundtable…
| Reports | Public Service Innovation
Report of the Sixth United Nations Public Service Day and Awards Ceremony
The United Nations hosted the Sixth Public Service Awards Ceremony and commemorated Public Service Day in New York on 23 June 2008 in Conference Room 2. The UN Public Service Awards (UNPSA) are handed out every year on 23 June, which has been…
| Reports | Public Institutions
The Contribution of the United Nations to the Improvement of Public Administration: A 60-Year History
The United Nations Programme on Public Administration, Finance and Development celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2008. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) commemorated the anniversary by, among other things,…
| Compendia
Compendium of Basic United Nations Terminology in Governance and Public Administration
At its sixth session, the Committee of Experts on Public Administration expressed appreciation to the Chair and the members of the working group on basic United Nations terminology in governance and public administration for its preliminary report…
| Capacity Development Reports | Participation and Accountability
Building Trust Through Civic Engagement
This publication is the result of the Workshop on Building Trust through Civic Engagement, held as part of the 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government: Building Trust in Government, which took place at the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna…