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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…
| 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…
| Capacity Development Reports | Public Service Innovation
Building Capacities for Public Service in Post-Conflict Countries
This publication on ‘Building Capacities for Public Service in Post-Conflict Countries’ represents a more nuanced contribution to the discourse on post-conflict reconstruction by focusing on some of the most fundamental and earliest elements to be…
| Capacity Development Reports | Public Institutions | Transformational Leadership and New Mindsets
Managing Knowledge to Build Trust in Government
The workshop on Managing Knowledge to Build Trust in Government was organized to exchange knowledge and practices worldwide, to challenge current thinking and bring to light best practices that cut across geographical boundaries, and to develop…
| 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…
| Capacity Development Reports | Participation and Accountability
Toward Participatory and Transparent Governance: Reinventing Government
This publication emerged from the presentations, discussions, and conclusions of nine capacity development workshops, which examined the theme of participatory and transparent governance as part of the 6th Global Forum on Reinventing Government. In…
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Publications in Public Administration and Development, 1992-2002
Publications in Public Administration and Development, 1992-2002
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Anti-Corruption Symposium 2001: The Role of On-line Procedures in Promoting Good Governance
Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea and nicknamed the “the Miracle of the Han River”, was one of the engines of rapid growth in one country among the “Asian Tigers”. As in many large cities, however, rapid economic growth was accompanied by…
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African Institutes of Public Administration: New Challenges, New Role, New Perspectives
The Third Pan-African Conference of Ministers of Civil Service, entitled “African Institutes of Public Administration: New Challenges, New Role, New Perspectives”, which took place in Windhoek, Namibia, on 5 and 6 February 2001, provided an…
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Publications in Public Administration and Development (1989-2000)
Publications in Public Administration and Development (1989-2000)
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Decentralization: Conditions for Success. Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
In April 1996, the United Nations General Assembly, at its resumed 50th session, adopted resolution 50/225 on Public Administration and Development. The resolution confirmed the importance of reinforcing public administration for development and…
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Country Profiles on Public Administration
In the last half of the twentieth century, Governments were under pressure to respond to the demands from their citizens and to increasing complexity and change in their global environments. The response to these demands has taken the form of…