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HLPF-VNR Lab: Principles of effective governance in VNRs: Enhancing policy coherence for sustainable development

The VNR Lab intends to facilitate peer-to-peer learning on how to enhance policy coherence aimed at accelerating full implementation of the 2030 Agenda. It will invite countries to share concrete examples of measures undertaken to foster and track policy coherence, including related challenges and success stories as well as progress made since their last VNR presentation. Given their active engagement in promoting policy coherence at the regional level, the VNR lab will also invite APRM and the OECD to give a regional perspective and elaborate on good practices. 

United Nations' Job Opening: Information Management Officer

This position is located in the Programme Management and Capacity Development Unit (PMCDU) in the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). DPIDG focuses on supporting countries in improving effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels for internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More information on DPIDG is available at here. To Apply, click here. Deadline:12 March 2023.

Snapshot of Capacity Development Activities 2022

UN DESA’s Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) provides capacity development support and policy advice to countries upon their request to strengthen governments’ capacities to translate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other internationally agreed goals into institutional arrangements, strategies, and programs for effective service delivery and participatory, accountable, and inclusive decision-making processes. It does so through several modalities. It oversees the development of strategy guidance notes, undertakes peer-to-peer learning workshops, training of trainers, direct advisory support, and the development and implementation of capacity development projects.

E-government Survey 2022: The Future of Digital Government

The UN E-Government Survey 2022 was launched on 28 September 2022. The theme of the 12th edition of the Survey is “The Future of Digital Government”. The Survey looks at how digital government can facilitate integrated policies and services across the 193 United Nations Member States. It supports countries’ efforts to provide effective, accountable and inclusive digital services to all and to bridge the digital divide and leave no one behind.

KIPA Public Policy Review

The Public Policy Review is a policy-oriented journal that aims to link research and policy in the field of public administration and governance. It further seeks to make contributions to public policy development and implementation via sharing robust policy research outcomes and best policy practices across the world. It serves as a premier venue for researches in the area and contribute to the development practices within governance.

The Innovation Journal

The Public Sector Innovation Journal (TIJ) is an independent, blind peer-reviewed, Internet-based journal devoted to building knowledge about public sector innovation. It publishes scholarly and practitioner-oriented papers, books, case studies, review essays, and book reviews. It has a French site, La Revue de l'innovation.

Administrative Science Quarterly

Administrative Science Quarterly, owned and managed by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, has been at the cutting edge of organizational studies since the field began. This top-tier journal regularly publishes the best theoretical and empirical papers based on dissertations and on the evolving and new work of more established scholars, as well as interdisciplinary work in organizational theory, and informative book reviews.

Cambridge Journal of Economics

The Cambridge Journal of Economics, founded in the traditions of Marx, Keynes, Kalecki, Joan Robinson and Kaldor, welcomes contributions from heterodox economics as well as other social science disciplines. Within this orientation the journal provides a focus for theoretical, applied, interdisciplinary, history of thought and methodological work, with strong emphasis on realistic analysis, the development of critical perspectives, the provision and use of empirical evidence, and the construction of policy.