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 ability to initiate, plan, develop, coordinate, and disseminate accurate, timely, and reliable information, alerts, warnings, and notifications to the public and responders in crises situations is central to risk-informed communication. Risk-…
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…
Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Climate Action through Risk-informed Governance
Key Messages
Governments that consider risk in policymaking and successfully integrate risk management into their governance frameworks and…
Promoting non-discrimination in public administration: some entry points
Key messages
Public administration can both serve as a vehicle for discrimination and provide channels to address it.
Research is needed, in particular from developing…
Five years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with one third of the implementation period of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals having elapsed, it is important to take stock of relevant institutional arrangements at…
Horizontal and vertical integration are more necessary than ever for COVID-19 recovery and SDG implementation
Summary
By putting stress on national socio-economic systems, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed new tensions and trade-offs among policy…
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…
National institutional arrangements for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: A five-year stocktaking
Institutions are paramount to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and all the Sustainable Development…
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…
Sustainable Development Goal 16: Focus on public institutions
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prominently feature institutions, both as a cross-cutting issue in many of the goals and as a standalone goal (SDG 16). The…