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Government Innovation Strategies in the Post COVID-19 Era : Implications based on the analyses of Korean COVID-19 response cases 1. Government Innovation: crucial roles in a crisis   2. Case Study: Combining speed, cooperation, creativity and experimentation 3. Government innovation strategies in the post COVID-19 era   File added date: March 2021 Author: KIPA URL:https://www.kipa.re.kr/site/eng/research/selectBasicView.do;jsessionid=…

The Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal is published twice a year by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. It aims to stimulate debate and enrich research in the formulation of policy in the Asia-Pacific region towards the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this issue: An emerging but vulnerable middle class: a description of trends in Asia and the Pacific by Orlando Zambrano Roman…

KIPA received an award from the prime minister for the ‘merit in the regulatory reform’ at the Government Complex-Seoul on 31 July, 2020. KIPA has been consistently putting efforts in researches on the regulatory reform. Specifically, KIPA was recognized for its contribution in regulatory reform and effective evaluation on the government regulations through construction and review of regulatory impact analysis reports in the administration and…

The emergence and spread of the coronavirus in late 2019 and the impact of its disease, COVID-19, which has been categorized by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic, is, at the time of writing, ongoing.   Efforts by governments to try to control the pandemic’s spread while managing its wide-ranging impacts demonstrate the critical role of the relationship between state and people in shaping and determining government responses,…

In the four years since the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into effect, countries across the world have made significant efforts to establish the institutional arrangements necessary for the successful implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This compendium aims to document these institutional arrangements in a simple and standardized way, with a view to facilitating exchanges on institutional practices and…

The International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS-IISA) Group is a learned society active in the field of public administration. Its vision is to be a key player in setting the governance agenda worldwide. To realize this vision, the IIAS fulfils four missions:   Maintain the network through high impact events targeting public service and academe, Produce and disseminate relevant public governance knowledge, Enable projects and…

The Public Administration Awards in the Western Balkans (the PA Awards) are unique awards system initiated by ReSPAand OECD/SIGMA aimed to enhance governance initiatives and support the establishment of strong public governance systems in the Western Balkan region.The 2020 Awards will focus on successful responses by the Western Balkan administrations to address the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. This crisis has forced governments to be…

The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prominently feature institutions, both as a cross-cutting issue in many of the goals and as a standalone goal (SDG 16). The World Public Sector Report 2019 looks at national-level developments in relation to several concepts highlighted in the targets of Goal 16, which are viewed as institutional principles: access to information, transparency, accountability, anti-corruption,…

Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, countries have continuously updated institutional arrangements in order to enable government institutions and other stakeholders to deliver the objectives encapsulated in the Agenda. This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, aims to document…

The World Public Sector Report 2018 examines how governments, public institutions and public administration can foster integrated approaches to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. The report examines key challenges and opportunities for integrated approaches from the perspective of public administration, highlighting experiences from past decades both at the sectoral and cross-sectoral levels. It also…

This Compendium of Innovative Practices in Public Governance and Administration for Sustainable Development explores three shifts in government-society interactions that have had significant impact on public administration and public service . These are the (i) demand for more people-centered governance, (ii) greater use of ICT technologies in public sector, and (iii) demand for high-quality human resources in public sector to deal with…

Heads of state and government will meet in September 2015 to adopt a new development agenda for the next 15 years after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Member States will have the responsibility of turning this collective vision of sustainable development into reality for their citizens with a firm commitment to “leave no one behind.” In doing so, governments will need to overcome many challenges. They will need to respond efficiently…