Organised by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) through the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) and its Project Office – United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG)   Background The Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) adopted 11 principles of effective governance at its seventeen.....

  Organised by Department of the Interior and Local Government United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in the Philippines United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Philippines   Background The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) of the Philippines, with the support of the.....

  Organised by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), through the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) and it's Project Office - United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) Ministry of the Interior and Safety of the Republic of Korea (MOIS) Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA) Korea .....

  Organised by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), through the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) and its Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) Sustainable Development Council of Sri Lanka (SDC) Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Sri La.....

  Organised by National Academy of Governance (NAOG) Mongolian National News Agency (MONTSAME) United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Mongolia     Background The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), through its Division for Public Institutions .....

Summary   The rising public expectation by the spread of democracy, globalisation, and informatisation has required good governance through government capacity and enhanced trust in government, along with democratic decision-making in government, private sector, media and civil society Against this backdrop, the 6th Global Forum on Reinventing Government, co-organised by the Government of Repub.....

Summary   While the World Bank and Asia Development Bank developed a set of analytical tools and indicators for monitoring democratic governance in developing countries at the national level, little attention has been paid to the development of a management capacity framework for local governments to strengthen transparent local governance. In particular, there is limited research on benchmarking.....

Summary   The UNGC Project Document closely links the implementation of the Project with the UN Public Service Awards, one of UNDESA’s major initiatives to facilitate the government reinvention efforts of Member States. Accordingly, the UNGC has undertook research on best practice cases in government reinvention based on past winners of the Award in order to identify and examine their.....

Summary   The objective of this in-depth research based on literature review was to analyze the state of trust in government, with a specific geographical focus on Asia. A 50 to 60 page background paper on each of three sub-regions of Asia – East, South and Southeast Asia – analyzed the degree to which the respective region’s governance systems and practices are conducive to genera.....

Summary In alignment with the general agenda and activitied of DPADM, UNGC embarked on research on key issues and viable strategies of restoring governance in conflict and post-conflict countries.  Despite different types of international assistance, post-conflict societies have often failed to perform the most urgent and basic reconstruction functions, such as establishing safety and security, en.....

At the request of the ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division (IDD) of UN ESCAP, DPIDG/UNPOG participated in the “Digital SDGs: Regional Workshop on Digital Inclusion and Community Development”, organized by the UN ESCAP, with support from the Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC) on 18 – 19 September 2023 in a hybrid modality. This Workshop brought toget.....

  On 12 January 2023, an UNPOG staff was invited to deliver a thematic presentation for the Department of Public Administration at Ewha Womans University.  The staff delivered a presentation on the UN’s role in response to climate change with a gender lens, and introduced i) the SDG Report 2022 and Our Common Agenda, ii) initiatives and strategies to address climate change by selected.....

  On 7-9 December, DPIDG/UNPOG delivered a session on Youth Actions for Climate Change and Risk Management, as well as led group activities and plenary discussions during the Workshop on Youth Engagement in Institution Building and Public Services Delivery for Sustainable Development After the Pandemic held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, for a group of 65 young people. This Worksho.....

The UNPOG Steering Committee Meeting was successfully held on 27 March 2020. The meeting was attended by representatives from UN DESA and MOIS, as well as the Head of UNPOG. The Steering Committee endorsed the 2019 Progress Report and recognized many significant achievements by UNPOG over 2019. During the meeting, the 2020 UNPOG Workplan.....

          Head of UNPOG was invited to deliver a presentation at the 2019 Environment Forum for International University Students, co-organized by Daejayeon—an environmental movement NGO consisting of university students around the world, Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi, and Korea University on 25 September 2019 at Korea University in Seoul, Republic o.....