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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the founder of the ICT 4D Conference. The event creates a ‘market-place’ to help initiate new partnerships, share insights and good practice for strengthen local partners, and learn from each other, especially around data protection, ethical considerations, and new partnership models with early co-creation of innovations.

This year’s conference will tackle the public sectors latest challenges and unique opportunities in the wake of COVID-19, including the rise of technology and digital services, pandemic responses and best practices at all levels of Government, the future of work, economic recovery, governance and leadership and much more. It will also feature workshops and networking opportunities designed to help job seekers in a changing employment landscape. 

The Global Standard in Public Services (NASPAA) consists of 743 conference “attendees” from over 250 universities in 25 countries. There were a total of 65 panels and seven workshops featuring the over 300 different speakers.

14-16 October 2020 | Event | Governance and Public Institutions | English| Americas
Organized by NASPAA

Every year, the GPSA looks forward to connecting with partners at its annual Global Partners Forum to share social accountability knowledge and insights from practitioners, researchers, funders, and policy makers, and reflect on the state of social accountability practice, explore emerging innovations and lessons, and look to new frontiers. This year, the Forum will will delve into important issues for the development community in the present environment, addressing the interlocking themes of the COVID-19 pandemic, socio-economic impacts, health systems, social inclusion, and the role of social accountability. 

The Kingdom of Thailand, through the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) and EROPA Secretariat, will be hosting the 2021 Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA) Conference.

The 2020 Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Annual Conference examined the macroeconomic impacts of COVID-19, its effects on MSMEs and households, and the pandemic-driven acceleration of digitalization in Asia and the Pacific. It explored how these trends will shape macroeconomic policy making and prospects for advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the region moving forward.

The 2021 AAPA Annual Conference will be jointly hosted by the Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA) and the Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service (IPACS) of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) in collaboration with the ASEAN Centre of the MGIMO University.

ADBI and Chiang Mai University co-hosted a virtual conference on tackling constraints on poverty reduction and inclusive growth. The focus was on sharing country experiences and best practices for generating quality jobs, promoting small and medium-sized enterprise microcredit and financing, improving human capital development, gender equality, and ensuring social protection.

The Korean Association for Public Administration (KAPA) is pleased to open the call for proposals for the 2021 KAPA international conference. The KAPA 2021 International Conference brings scholars and practitioners together to discuss important current and emerging issues and solutions in the public sector. This year’s conference will take place entirely online after careful consideration of the state of the pandemic.

The conference is jointly organized by the International Public Policy Association (IPPA) and the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). The Universitat de Barcelona (UB), the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) also collaborate in the organization of this edition. Following the success of the previous editions of the Biennial International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) (Grenoble 2013, Milan 2015, Singapore 2017, Montreal 2019 with more than 1300 attendees), the ICPP5 will become the most important international conference for Policy Research.