Social and Emotional Skills: Building a Resilient Workforce

Social and emotional skills—sometimes called soft, people, or human skills—are critical for high functioning teams. They include skills such as active listening, empathy, communication, collaboration, and resilience. These skills are in high demand by employers, despite the ongoing digitization in workplaces.

Addressing Canada's Housing Supply Challenges: Skilled Trades Workforce Shortage

On June 12th, join us for a panel co-hosted by IPAC and Deloitte Canada to continue to unpack the key topics and concepts surrounding Canada's housing supply challenges. Governments have announced new programs, policies, and funding over the last twelve months to accelerate the supply of housing.
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Virtual Side Event on Harnessing Sustainable Ocean-Based Economy: Overcoming the Financing Challenge

Promoting an inclusive and sustainable ocean-based economy is especially critical for the sustainable development of small island developing States.

The New Neo-Weberian State

South Asian Network for Public Administration will hold its second webinar for 2023 on “The New Neo-Weberian State". It will be on 29 April at 8:00 AM (Berlin time).
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17th meeting of the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Audits Steering Committee

The Steering Committee meeting was supposed to take place in magical Marrakech 23 – 26 March 2020. The preparations were going full speed forward when the alerting news from all over the world started to spread.
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Strengthening Capacities of Asia-Pacific Local Authorities to Build Resilient Societies through Disaster Risk Reduction…

DPIDG, through its Project Office on Governance (UNPOG), co-organized a four-day training workshop with UNDRR and UNITAR on "Strengthening the Capacities of Asia-Pacific Local Authorities to Build Resilient Societies through Disaster Risk Reduction in Sustainable Development Strategies" from 4-7 June 2019 in Jeju, Republic of Korea.
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International Mayors' Forum

UNPOG sent Mr. Keping Yao, Governance and Public Administration Expert, to attend the 2nd International Mayors’ Forum, where over mayors from over 70 cities participated in the forum to share best practices for making local communities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.