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Objective/Purpose of Project: The United Nations Public Service Day celebrates the value and virtue of public service to the community; highlights the contribution of public service in the development process; recognizes the work of public servants, and encourages young people to pursue careers in the public sector. The overall purpose of the United Nations Public Service Awards is to recognize the institutional contribution made by public servants to enhance the role, professionalism, image and visibility of the public service.
Main Expectations:
- Enhanced knowledge of challenges and trends, best practices and tools in innovating governance and public administration and the delivery of services, which will be further shared with all UN Member States through the United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN) - Shared possibilities and plans of adapting good practices in the delivery of public services through peer-to-peer learning and transfer of innovations; - Shared innovative capacity development tools and approaches, manuals, and guidelines to build national and local capacity of governance and public administration and service delivery for implementing the post 2015 development agenda effectively. - Network with government officials, experts, academics and practitioners from around the world during and beyond the event; - Renewed public sector leadership commitment and inspiration to engage in promoting creativity and innovations in public sector institutions for effective, efficient, responsive, equitable, and accountable delivery of public services to implement the post 2015 development agenda.
Specific Products/Outputs Delivered:
- 22 public organizations from 18 countries were awarded with the most prestigious award of Excellence in Public Service on 26 June 2015. 14 were first place winners, whereas 8 were second place winners.
Key Accomplishments (to date):
848 nominations have been received for the 2015 UNPSA, marking an increase from the 2014 Public Service Awards nominations at 704 and an impressive increase from the 2003, the first year of the program.
Feedback
The event drew over 937 participants from 69 countries and included world leaders, ministers, senior government officials, mayors, representatives from civil society, academia, and the private sector, as well as representatives from international and regional organizations. In addition, digital participation played a significant role this year as the ‘‘Hash-tags’ (#UNPSA2015) reached 158 million people around the world during the UNPS Forum, Day, and Awards Ceremony.
Time Frame: August 2014 – July 2015
Funding:Colombia
Proposed Budget: US$ 605,153.00
Division: DPIDG
Focus Countries: All Member States
Comment: project concluded