Events | Public Institutions

Strengthening Innovation in Public Service to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

05 December 2023 | 08:00 am - 06:00 pm CAT

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG), is organising a capacity development workshop entitled “Strengthening Innovation in Public Service to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals” under the umbrella of the 42nd Annual Roundtable Conference of the African Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM). It will take place in Livingstone, Zambia from 5 to 8 December 2023. The… Read More

Banner for Regional Symposium on Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in the Curricula of Schools of Public Administration in Africa

Regional Symposium on Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in the Curricula of Schools of Public Administration in Africa

02 May 2023

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), through its Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG), the African Management Development Institutes’ Network (AMDIN), the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), the Kenya School of Government (KSG), and the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG-Africa)/African Local Government Academy (ALGA) are co-organizing an online Regional Symposium on… Read More

Capacity-building Workshop on the importance of transformational leadership in aligning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa’s Agenda 2063

17 May 2022

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (UN DESA/DPIDG), in close collaboration with the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa), organized a capacity-building workshop on the importance of transformational leadership in aligning the SDGs and Africa’s Agenda 2063 through the lens of intermediary cities. The workshop, which was an integral part of the 9th Africities Summit, hosted 8 speakers from… Read More

Resilience & Recovery from Covid-19 through Sound Policymaking with a focus on Policy Coherence

17 January 2022 | 08:00 am - 10:00 am EST

The abovementioned partners held a series of virtual workshops on how to promote resilience and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa through sound policymaking. This 3rd workshop was held on 17 January 2022 via the Zoom platform.The workshops aimed at developing the capacities of national governments to promote sound policymaking, with a particular focus on policy coherence, strategic planning and foresight and risk management. More specifically, the workshops :Provided a platform to… Read More