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Effective, accountable and inclusive institutions are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is recognized by SDG 16 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda also recognized that governments have the primary responsibility for implementing the SDGs and ensuring follow-up and review over the coming 15 years, at the national, regional and global levels. One of the first steps governments take to implement the Agenda is often to shape the institutional arrangements for steering the implementation of the SDGs and reviewing progress.
Public administration - the cornerstone of government’s work- plays an essential and critical role in improving people’s lives. Reinventing public administration is a positive and necessary way forward. Without public administration modernization and transformation to adapt to today’s needs, realizing a better future for all will be impossible. Where capable administrations are lacking, governments are incapacitated; and where governments are incapacitated, sustainable development falls short.
This vision will guide the work of our division. It will assist countries in readying their institutions and public administrations for realizing the SDGs and in making those effective, transparent, accountable and inclusive. The division delivers this work through conducting analytical work and research, supporting the Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) and building capacities of countries who request it.
- Compendium of National Institutional Arrangements for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: 2020 Update
- Compendium of national institutional arrangements for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: 2019 update
English | Russian (Unofficial translation) - Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Integrated approaches to international migrations: the perspective of public institutions and public administration
- Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Integrating Sustainable Development and Peace in Post-conflict Situations: the Role of Public Institutions and Public Administration
- Compendium of National Institutional Arrangements for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- World Public Sector Report: Responsive and Accountable Public Governance
- 2016 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: Institutions and Sustainable Development Goal Implementation
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- Policy Brief - Overview of institutional arrangements for implementing the 2030 Agenda at national level
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- CEPA Papers on Institutions
- From Crisis to Opportunity: How can open and accountable COVID-19 fiscal measures support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda?
- Expert Group Meeting: Integrated Approaches to International Migrations
- Expert Group Meeting: Integrating Sustainable Development and Peace in Post-conflict Situations
- Expert Group Meeting: Moving from Commitments to Results in Building Effective, Accountable and Inclusive Institutions at all Levels
- Symposium: Governance for Implementing the Sustainable Development Commitments in Africa
- Symposium: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SAMOA Pathway in Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Equipping public institutions and mobilizing partnerships
- Symposium: Promotion of an Inclusive and Accountable Public Administration for Sustainable Development
- Special Event of the 69th United Nations General Assembly: “ICT and E-Government in SIDS: Responding to the SAMOA Pathway Call for Action”
- Background paper: E-Government for Promoting Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
- VNR lab 12: Governance and policy integration in the context of COVID-19
- VNR Lab 14: Meaningful participation in times of crisis: Engagement of stakeholders for the preparation of VNRs