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…
The report of the Webinar Series on Effective Governance and the Quintet of Change for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlights key insights from the webinar series that included six interactive webinars that…
This report provides an overview of the capacity development activities that UN DESA’s Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) conducted in 2023, including the substantive support provided to the reinvigorated UN Resident…
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…
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…
The UN DESA Annual Highlights report is a tool to communicate the contributions of the Department to the realization of internationally agreed development goals and shared social, economic, and environmental aspirations. It showcases the Department’…
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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 (…
UN DESA's work is supported by a growing series of strategy guidance notes on the many facets of effective governance for sustainable development which embody the knowledge and experience of hundreds of committed expert practitioners and academics…
The Peer-to-Peer Learning International Workshop on Public Service Training Assessment Framework for Strengthening Capacities of Public Servants to Support SDG Implementation was held under the responsibility of Juwang Zhu, Director of the Division…
The promotion of social equity is one of the strategies for leaving no one behind, and can be understood as fairness, justice and greater equality for all in society. Achieving equity relies on an active commitment to these aims through the…
This guidance note discusses the role of long-term public debt management as a strategy to promote sustainable development and intergenerational equity within the context of the 2030 Agenda.
Participatory budgeting (PB) broadly refers to the many ways in which the general public is able to interact directly with government in the design and implementation of budgetary and…