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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 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…
| 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…
| 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…
| 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…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Participation and Accountability

Participatory Governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

The Participatory Governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) publication is an output of the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) organized by UNDESA on Engaged Governance: Citizen Participation in the Implementation of the Developmental Goals…
| 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…
| 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…
| 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,…