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Snapshot of Capacity Development Activities 2022
UN DESA’s Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) provides capacity development support and policy advice to countries upon their request to strengthen governments’ capacities to translate the Sustainable Development Goals (…
| Policy Briefs | Participation and Accountability | Public Institutions
UN/DESA Policy Brief #114: Connecting the Dots: The Still Elusive Synergies Between Accountability Institutions and the Follow-up and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda highlights the importance of the follow-up and review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an accountability mechanism and sets clear principles to guide it. Accountability institutions such as parliaments and supreme audit…
| Capacity Development Reports | Participation and Accountability
Report on Transparency, Accountability and Ethics in Public Institutions with a focus on Public Procurement in Kenya
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), together with the Kenya School of Government (KSG) and the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management (KISM), co-organized an online training workshop on Transparency, Accountability…
| Capacity Development Reports | Participation and Accountability
Report on Building Transparent, Accountable and Inclusive Institutions from the UNGASS 2021
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) through its Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG), together with the Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe (GRECO) co-organized a…
| Policy Briefs | Participation and Accountability | Public Institutions
Resilient Institutions in Times of Crisis: Transparency, Accountability and Participation at the National Level Key to Effective Response to COVID-19
National institutions are strongly impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19). The pandemic has disrupted to varying extents the regular functioning of state institutions, such as parliaments and justice systems, and affected key government functions…
| World Public Sector Reports | Participation and Accountability
World Public Sector Report 2015
Responsive and Accountable Public Governance
The 2015 World Public Sector Report on "Responsive and Accountable Public Governance" presents the need for public governance to become more responsive and accountable in order for the State to lead the…
| Compendia | Participation and Accountability | Supreme Audit Institutions
Compendium of Innovative Practices of Citizen Engagement by Supreme Audit Institutions for Public Accountability
The Compendium of Innovative Practices of Citizen Engagement by Supreme Audit Institutions for Public accountability provides an overview of successful examples and innovations in the engagement of citizens in public accountability processes through…
| Compendia | Digital Government | Participation and Accountability
Compendium of ICT Applications on Electronnic Government, Volume 3: Mobile Applications on Citizen Engagement
This Compendium of ICT Applications on Electronic Government is a unique collection of current ICT applications being used directly by or in partnership with governments, governmental institutions and the private sector around the world to support…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Digital Government | Participation and Accountability
Report of the Expert Group Meeting on E-Procurement: Towards Transparency and Efficiency in Public Service Delivery
This is a concept paper prepared in response to the demand from United Nations Member States in understanding the challenges, potential and available options in improving or developing E-Procurement systems.
This paper is based on a series of…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Participation and Accountability
Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Engaging Citizens to Enhance Public Sector Accountability and Prevent Corruption in the Delivery of Public Services
The Development Management Branch of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DMB/DPADM/UNDESA) convened an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Engaging Citizens to…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Participation and Accountability
Report on the Expert Group Meeting on Citizen Engagement in Climate Change Governance: Citizens for a Sustainable Future
The UNDESA-DPADM supported Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in its World Civic Forum 2009 initiative, held from 5 to 8 May 2009 in Seoul, Korea. The overarching theme of the forum was Building Our Humanitarian Planet, espoused by three sub-themes…
| 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…