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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 (…
| 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…
| 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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:…
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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…