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Participatory Planning Participatory Planning and Budgeting Budgeting at the Sub-national Level
This publication serves as a reference and guide for local governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society and institutions, and will contribute to advancing the discussions in government-community engagements in fiscal processes. UNDESA…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Participation and Accountability
Auditing for Social Change: A Strategy for Citizen Engagement in Public Sector Accountability
The publication is a result of the outcome of the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) in Seoul on May 26-27 2005 titled “Auditing for Social Change”, organised in partnership with the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) of the Republic of Korea, to discuss…
| 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…
| 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…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Digital Government | Participation and Accountability
E-Participation and E-Government: Understanding the Present and Creating the Future - Report of the Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Budapest, Hungary
In its endeavour to support Member States in the area of ICT for development, the United Nations Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) organized an Expert Group Meeting on E-Participation and E-Government:…
| Reports | Participation and Accountability
Fighting Urban Poverty: Which Participatory Approaches?
A Panel Discussion on Fighting Urban Poverty: Which Participatory Approaches?, organized jointly by UNDESA and DGDC, as a side event to the Third World Urban Forum in Vancouver, Canada on 20 June 2006, brought together practitioners, policy makers…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Participation and Accountability
Citizen Participation and Pro-poor Budgeting
This publication is an output of Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Civil Participation in Fiscal Policy, held in March 2004 in New York Headquarters. Specialists were invited to present papers and to discuss the institutions, processes and mechanisms…
| World Public Sector Reports | Transformational Leadership and New Mindsets
World Public Sector Report 2005
Unlocking the Human Potential for Public Sector Performance
As recommended by the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (UNCEPA), the third World Public Sector Report will be published in 2005, with a particular thematic focus on human…
| UN E-Government Surveys | Digital Government
From E-Government to E-Inclusion
From E-Government to E-Inclusion
The spread of information technologies to a select group of people in the world is worsening disparities between the e-haves and the e-have-nots. There is a danger that unequal diffusion of technology, far from…
| UN E-Government Surveys | Digital Government
Towards Access for Opportunity
Towards Access for OpportunityEconomic and social empowerment today rests on the ability to access, gather, analyze and utilize information and knowledge to widen individual choices for political, economic, social, cultural and behavioral decisions…
| UN E-Government Surveys | World Public Sector Reports | Digital Government
World Public Sector Report 2003
E-Government at the CrossroadsThe World Public Sector Report 2003 presents a view of e-government as a tool for creating public value. It puts e-government development in the context of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, the Report claims…
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Publications in Public Administration and Development, 1992-2002
Publications in Public Administration and Development, 1992-2002