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World Public Sector Report 2025
Supreme audit institutions and the Sustainable Development GoalsThe World Public Sector Report 2025 focuses on the role of supreme audit institutions (SAIs) in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The main objectives of…
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DESA Highlights: Strengthening Governance Systems and Public Institutions
By fostering innovation and promoting accountability and digital government, UN DESA supported Member States in ensuring that governance systems are inclusive and responsive to the needs of all, including those in vulnerable situations. These…
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9th Youth Forum on SDG Implementation Outcome Report
Against this backdrop and guided by the UN Youth Strategy, the United Nations Project on Governance (UNPOG), under the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (…
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UNEN Futures and Foresight Policy Brief: GOVERNANCE FUTURES
The UN Economist Network has released a new Futures and Foresight Policy Brief on Governance Futures: Key Insights and Policy Implications. This Policy Brief examines the limitations of current governance systems and proposes alternative models…
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DESA highlights Report: Strengthening National Institutions and Accountability
Effective, inclusive and accountable public institutions and digital government are key to people's well-being in every society across the world. UN DESA, through its support to public institutions in the design and implementation of public policies…
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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…
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World e-Parliament Report 2012
The World e-Parliament Report 2012 documents the efforts of legislatures to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to support their constitutional functions. The Report is based on the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012 conducted…
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Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Developing Institutional Capacities of Public Administration for the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Post-Conflict and Crisis Situations
The world is currently engaged in searching for effective ways through which countries can be (i) prepared to face occurrences of violent conflict, crisis, and/or disaster, (ii) prevent/manage them and/or mitigate their negative impact on human…
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World e-Parliament Report 2010
Prepared by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, a broad partnership initiative of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the World e-Parliament Report 2010 offers parliaments a…
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World e-Parliament Conference Report 2009
The World e-Parliament Conference 2009 took place at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., on 3, 4 and 5 November 2009. The conference was co-organized by the United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the U.S. House of…
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Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Lessons Learned in Post-Conflict State Capacity: Reconstructing Governance and Public Administration Capacities in Post Conflict Countries
As part of the efforts to prepare the World Public Sector Report on “Reconstructing Public Administration in Post-Conflict Countries: Challenges, Practices and Lessons Learned”, DPADM organized (in Accra, Ghana in October 2008) an Ad Hoc Expert…
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The Contribution of the United Nations to the Improvement of Public Administration: A 60-Year History
The United Nations Programme on Public Administration, Finance and Development celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2008. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) commemorated the anniversary by, among other things,…