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| Publications | World Public Sector Reports | Public Institutions

World Public Sector Report 2023

Transforming institutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals after the pandemic.The World Public Sector Report 2023 examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19…
| Handbooks | Local Governance | Public Institutions

Strengthening Resilience in Cities and Local Communities Through Innovation and Digital Government

This handbook introduces the reader to concepts, approaches, tools, exercises and innovative cases to Strengthen Resilience in Cities and Local Communities through Innovation and Digital Government. The handbook guides the reader towards roadmaps,…
| Handbooks | Local Governance

Social Value in Local Governments

Over the last few years, the world has experienced an unprecedented pandemic. At the crossroads of coexistence or co-destruction, nations learned that community-centred thinking and action was needed, breaking away from self-centred behaviour. This…
| Handbooks | Local Governance

Promoting Local Innovation for Inclusion of People in Vulnerable Situations and Leaving No One Behind

Ensuring no one is left behind is the overarching principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Achieving that goal entails taking bold and accelerated actions to end extreme poverty, curb inequalities, confront discrimination and fast-…
| Handbooks | Local Governance | Public Institutions

Fostering Collaborative Public Administration for Local Governments

This handbook explains the concepts, attributes and approaches of collaborative administration and specifically introduces practical cases of collaborative public administration in local governments in the Republic of Korea. Collaborative public…
| Handbooks | Sound Policymaking | Supreme Audit Institutions

Handbook on strengthening budget credibility through external audits

DPIDG/UN DESA is collaborating with the International Budget Partnership (IBP) to support Supreme Audit Institutions in conducting analyses of the credibility of government budgets through external audits (SDG16.6.1).“Strengthening Budget…
| Handbooks | Digital Government | Public Service Innovation

Handbook on how to design and implement One-stop-Shops to promote better service delivery and implement the Sustainable Development Goals

This Handbook, prepared by UN DESA/DPIDG, provides local and national governments with a set of conceptual approaches, practical strategies, and tools to improve the delivery of public services through citizen centric One-stop-Shops (OSS). It…
| Handbooks | Digital Government | Public Service Innovation

Handbook on Risk-informed Governance and Innovative Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

This Handbook is developed based on the Traning of Trainer Toolkit on Risk-informed Governance and Innovative Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Resilience. The overall learning outcome of this training toolkit is to meet the…
| Handbooks | Digital Government

Digital Government Capability Assessment

The Digital Government Capability Assessment (DGCA) is a six-dimension framework of enablers to engage governments in discussions towards digital government transformation. Considering that digital government requires a multifaceted response from…
| Handbooks | Participation and Accountability

Civic Engagement in Public Policies: A Toolkit

This toolkit highlights emerging innovative processes, methods and mechanisms that foster the engagement of civil society, the private sector and citizens in general in public policies. It aims to assist governments, civil society and other relevant…
| Publications

Administrative Reforms: Country Profiles of Five Asian Countries

In recent years, many countries have undertaken administrative reform as a crucial step towards strengthening their economy and better management of their social development. The state is still playing a key role in the change management of nations…
| Publications | Local Governance

Local Governance- Report of the United Nations Global Forum on Innovation Policies and Practices in Local Governance

Discussions about innovative aspects of the relationship between central and local government (with a view to decentralization and strengthening the mobilization of civil society) are critical to the practical implementation of the Agenda for Peace…