Impact of #ClimateChange on health relates to its direct ramifications as well as psychological effects. We need hope for future, backed up w/ action. We need policy with thousand-year perspective &  Hippocratic oath for those to be born. Read blog post by Dag O. Hessen, click on the picture/title.

UN DESA, IDLO and the Government of Italy are organizing the SDG 16 Conference 2022. The Conference will examine how COVID-19 has contributed to the root causes and drivers of conflict and instability, challenged the delivery of public services, threatened the rule of law and increased inequality and exclusion. It will highlight innovations made in response to the pandemic. The Conference will be held from 21 to 22 April in a hybrid format. For more information click on the picture/title. 

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CEPA will hold its twenty-first session at UN Headquarters in New York from 4 to 8 April 2022. The overall theme of the session is “Transforming institutions and governance to build forward better towards 2030”. Topics discussed in this year’s session include governance and public administration aspects of the theme of the 2022 ECOSOC session and the 2022 High-level political forum on sustainable development (...).  For more information, click on the picture/title.

UN DESA/DPIDG, the Ministry of Public Service of Guyana, CARICAD and CARICOM, with the support of the Resident Coordinator Office, are co-organizing a Training Workshop on Innovation, Digital Government and Changing Mindset for Public Sector Transformation in Guyana to Achieve the SDGs. The course will be attended by Permanent and Deputy Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, Chief Executive Officers of Guyana. The Training Workshop will take place from 22 to 31 March 2022.  For more information, click on the picture/title.

The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) of the Government of Bhutan, in collaboration with UN DESA/DPIDG and UNPOG, with the support of the UN Resident Coordinator Office in Bhutan, is organizing a virtual peer-to-peer learning international workshop on public service training assessment framework for strengthening capacities of public servants to support the implementation of the SDGs. It will provide a platform for practitioners and decision-makers of the RCSC, Bhutan and its affiliated institutes to learn lessons from international good practices.  The workshop will take place from 16 to 17 March 2022. For more information, click on the image/title. 

UN DESA / DPIDG, in collaboration with the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, is organizing a capacity building workshop on new approaches to e-government for SDG implementation. The objective of the workshop is to raise awareness on innovative approaches in e-government policies and implementation strategies and increase participants' capacities on how to use them for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal. It will take place on 15 & 16 March from 13:00 - 16:00 (Istanbul Time) / 6:00 to 9:00 am (New York Time).  For more information, click on the picture/title.

This report summarizes the key highlights and messages that were conveyed by the facilitators, speakers, and participants during the Regional Webinar Series on “How to Promote Resilience and Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa through Sound Policymaking” held respectively on 16 November, 8 December 2021, and 17 January 2022. The workshops were organized by DPIDG/UN DESA, in collaboration with APRM and the support of Resident Coordinator Offices.  For more information, click on the picture/title.