This report summarizes key messages that were conveyed by facilitators, participants and speakers and feedback received from participants during the workshop on Transparency, Accountability, and Ethics in Public Institutions with a focus on Public Procurement in Kenya. The workshop was organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), together with the Kenya School of Government (KSG) and the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management (KISM). The two-day virtual workshop was held on the 24th and 25th of March 2021.

This report summarizes key messages emanating and participants’ feedback from the side event on the theme of Building Transparent, Accountable and Inclusive Institutions at the Special Session of the General Assembly against Corruption (UNGASS) 2021. The side event was organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) through its Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG), together with the Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe (GRECO) was held on the 2nd of June 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created severe economic and social disruption, with loss of lives and livelihoods, poverty and inequality on the rise in every country on Earth, presenting a serious threat to social cohesion and global cooperation. Understanding the individual experiences and perceptions of citizens will help chart a path towards a just post-pandemic recovery that puts those most affected at the centre. This report shares the results of deliberative citizen dialogues with more than 120 participants in Europe, India, West Africa and across an international network of students and children. The findings highlighted the importance of social cohesion and trust.

The practice of efficient PFM is now considered critical in combating corruption, alleviating poverty, and ensuring the effective use of internal and external resources as an essential part of the development process. Sound PFM are critical to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) and Africa Agenda 2063.

The International Virtual Conference (Webinar) focused on the effects of the pandemic on the public administration of Chile and the measures that said nation has taken to date to face the consequences of the pandemic.

This brief discusses the challenges of the COVID-19 emergency along key dimensions of national institutions highlighted in Sustainable Development Goal 16. It also explores how government institutions and civil society have innovatively responded to ensure that transparent, accountable, responsive and equitable mechanisms continue to govern the functioning of government processes and organizations, thus increasing the resilience of institutions to shocks such as the coronavirus pandemic.

The e-Mutation initiative established a digital mechanism for mutation applications, which allowed for more efficient application, tracking of the process, and delivery of timely services. It aims to ensure transparency and accountability in the process, increase efficiency, and ensure a system that is fair to all citizens, particularly the most vulnerable including the illiterate, women, older persons and the poor.

This publication provides an overview of successful examples and innovations in the engagement of citizens in public accountability processes through Supreme Audit Institutions. The purpose of this book is to disseminate, through comparative case studies and analysis, and conceptual frameworks, information about innovative and successful practices. Learning more about how Supreme Audit Institutions from around the world have successfully collaborated with citizens and civil society groups in the audit of how public resources are allocated and spent can be a powerful and inspirational tool for those engaged in improving public accountability.

The Development Management Branch of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DMB/DPADM/UNDESA) convened an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Engaging Citizens to Enhance Public Sector Accountability and to Prevent Corruption in the Delivery of Public Services, held at the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna, Austria on 7-8 July 2011. This Report describes the EGM background, preparations and objectives. It summarizes the proceedings, outcomes and recommendations.

The UNDESA-DPADM supported Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in its World Civic Forum 2009 initiative, held from 5 to 8 May 2009 in Seoul, Korea. As a reflection of a sub-theme, Civic Action for the Global Agenda including Climate Change, the Socio-Economic Governance and Management Branch (SGMB) within DPADM organized an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) entitled Citizen Engagement in Climate Change Governance: Citizens for a Sustainable Future. This report provides a summary of the meeting.