Review of the United Nations Programme in Public Administration and Finance

Resource Date: 04 February 2008

Content Type: Publication

Region: Global

Thematic Area: Governance and Public Institutions

Contributor: UN DESA/DPIDG

Resource Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

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 assist Member States in meeting their current governance and public administration challenges in a globalized world, and on emerging issues. The Programme has been assisting Member States in addressing their governance and administrative challenges since 1948 and is commemorating its sixtieth anniversary throughout 2008.

This note also presents the proposed strategic framework for the period 2010- 2011 for review and approval by the Committee. The Committee’s comments together with the proposed framework will be submitted to the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its forty-eighth session in June-July 2008 and transmitted, through, the General Assembly at its sixty-third session when the Assembly considers the proposed strategic framework for the Secretariat as a whole. In the preparation of this framework for the United Nations Programme in Public Administration and Finance, the Secretariat took into consideration its strengths and accomplishments noted as well as recommendations contained in recent evaluation reports of the Programme and its various components.