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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of Governments’ relationships with other social actors in addressing crises and achieving transformative goals. The strength of these relationships enabled or hindered the swiftness and effectiveness of many responses to the virus. While posing enormous challenges to public administrations, the pandemic also sparked innovation and positive changes within them. In the face of increasingly complex threats to sustainable development and social contracts under strain, what did the pandemic experience reveal about how Governments can strengthen their relationships and earn public trust?
The webinar will explore opportunities to do so, focusing on governance responsiveness and transparency and the expansion of digital government, as well as information integrity and civic engagement. Eight experts will share and discuss successful and promising institutional and policy changes from the pandemic period, their potential to be sustained, and how they might inform other efforts to enhance trust in public institutions and accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
The webinar is the second in a series on the World Public Sector Report 2023: Transforming institutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals after the pandemic. The report examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic can play in advancing progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/PublicSectorReportWebinar2