Key messages:
1. Comprehensive public service capacity development: Governments must pay attention to developing the capacities of the public service and public servants; be it in their numbers, their competences, values, the protective gear…
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…
The emergence and spread of the coronavirus in late 2019 and the impact of its disease, COVID-19, which has been categorized by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic, is, at the time of writing, ongoing.
Efforts by governments to…
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments and societies to turn toward digital technologies to respond to the crisis in the short-term, resolve socio-economic repercussions in the mid-term and reinvent existing policies and tools in the long-term…
The United Nations e-Government Survey is one of the major recurrent flagship publications of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). It has…
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…
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…
The Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) collaborated with the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA) to…
The world is currently engaged in searching for effective ways through which countries can be (i) prepared to face occurrences of violent conflict, crisis, and/or disaster, (ii) prevent/manage them and/or mitigate their negative impact on human…
UN DESA in collaboration with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) organized a multiple stakeholders Expert Group Meeting on “e-Government and New Technologies: Towards better citizen engagement for development.” The meeting was held in…
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…
The United Nations E-Government Survey is one of the major recurrent flagship publications of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). It has…