Symposium on “Leveraging Public Governance to Accelerate the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals - Transformation, Innovation & Inclusion”

UN DESA’s Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG), through its Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) and in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) of the Government of the Republic of Korea, organized a symposium on “Leveraging Public Governance to Accelerate the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals – Transformation, Innovation & Inclusion”. 

The main objective of the Symposium was to strengthen the capacities of government officials to transform their own public institutions and accelerate achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Symposium aimed to reflect on how best to mobilize, organize and equip institutions and rally whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to promote sustainable development by taking stock of progress made in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. 

It provided an opportunity to discuss how to promote government innovation for social inclusion of vulnerable groups, with a focus on youth, women and persons with disabilities. It actively engaged with the civil society organizations and the private sector to discuss innovative partnerships.  Read more