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The United Nations E-Government Survey is one of the major recurrent flagship publications of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). It has consistently ranked as one of the top 10 downloaded publications of the Department. Given the high profile nature of the Survey, in an effort to improve its methodological aspects, DPADM organized an…

The United Nations Public Service Awards Programme (UNPSA) is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. It rewards the creative achievements and the contributions of public service institutions to a more effective and responsive public administration in countries worldwide.   This publication provides an overview of the UNPSA initiatives recognized as winners and finalists in 2008. Its purpose is to…

The present note highlights the major activities undertaken by the Secretariat in 2008 under the United Nations Programme in Public Administration and Finance for review by the Committee of Experts on Public Administration and also considers the current process of organizational changes that have been undertaken by the Secretariat with a view to streamlining the operations of the Programme and strengthening its capacities to address the needs of…

The present note by the Secretariat has been prepared on the basis of an outline provided by the members of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration. The Committee adopted the theme of the human factor in capacity-building for development, as the main agenda item for its eighth session (see Economic and Social Council decision 2008/254).   The present note has been prepared to establish the understanding that people matter most in…

This publication provides a summary of the findings and lessons learned from the Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on “Innovation in Governance and Public Administration for the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals” which was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 23 and 24 June 2009.   It mainly includes three parts: Innovation in Governance and Public Administration: United Nations Public Service Awards; The Critical Role of…

As part of the efforts to prepare the World Public Sector Report on “Reconstructing Public Administration in Post-Conflict Countries: Challenges, Practices and Lessons Learned”, DPADM organized (in Accra, Ghana in October 2008) an Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting (AEGM) to gather and analyze existing lessons learned and successful practices in this domain. This on-line Publication is a collection of some of the materials presented and discussed…

Building a Developmental State: Strategies for Attracting and Retaining High Quality Staff in the Public Service in Africa is a presentation during the 30th Africa Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM) Annual Roundtable Conference Held in Accra, Ghana from 6th to 10th October 2008.   File added date: September 2021 Author: UN DESA/DPIDG Download Publication: English URL: https://publicadministration.un.org/publications/…

The United Nations hosted the Sixth Public Service Awards Ceremony and commemorated Public Service Day in New York on 23 June 2008 in Conference Room 2. The UN Public Service Awards (UNPSA) are handed out every year on 23 June, which has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as Public Service Day (A/RES/57/277). The UNPSA Programme was launched as a result of the deliberations of the 15th session of the Group of Experts on the…

The 2008 World Public Sector Report, People Matter: Civic Engagement in Public Governance, highlights the importance of civic engagement in public governance and by profiling several case studies, demonstrates how such practices gain the capacity to strengthen governance, make it more transparent and accountable and most importantly, contribute to developmental outcomes that are more sustainable, equitable and just. The Report also highlights…

The present report contains the conclusions and recommendations of the seventh session of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration, held at United Nations Headquarters from 14 to 18 April 2008. The Committee, which was established by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2001/45, consists of 24 experts appointed in their personal capacity for a four-year period. The Committee dealt with the following substantive items: (a)…

The United Nations Programme on Public Administration, Finance and Development celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2008. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) commemorated the anniversary by, among other things, publishing this book to highlight the broad historical background and path that the programme has gone through since its establishment in 1948 by United Nations General Assembly resolution 246 (III), to…

The present note highlights the major activities undertaken by the Secretariat in 2007 under the United Nations Programme in Public Administration and Finance for review by the Committee of Experts on Public Administration. It also presents the main activities to be implemented under the Programme during the current biennium 2008-2009. The Committee is requested to provide feedback to the Secretariat on these activities, which are intended to…