Committee of Experts on Public Administration Will Meet Next Month
The fifth session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration will take place 27-31 March in New York.  Visit the UNPAN web site to access relevant documents and a list of participants.
URL: http://www.unpan.org/cepa-5.asp

Recent Publications
ARADO has posted its recent publications on the UNPAN web site.

Recent Publications

• PA TIMES - January issue
• Public Administration Review - January/February issue

Project Steering Committee Meets
The Project Steering Committee (PSC) for the European Development Fund (EDF) sponsored Overseas Countries and Territories Strategic Planning Project held its inaugural meeting in the British Virgin Islands on 23-24 January. Representatives of the British and Dutch Caribbean Overseas Territories:

• Ratified the Programme Estimate and associated Implementation Plan
• Confirmed the composition and functions of the PSC.
• Reviewed the First Programme Estimate for the project.
• Approved an Implementation Plan for the first Programme Estimate.
• Reviewed the procedural requirements for project implementation.
• Identified, prioritized and scheduled follow-up actions required.
• Engendered a spirit of mutual support and cooperation among project participants.

The next such meeting is scheduled for May 2006.

Recent Publications

• CARICAD Chronicle - Vol. 1 No. 6, December 2005

Conference Information
Last Seminar of the "Cycle of Seminars in Municipal Management for the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals"
The International Centre of Innovation and Exchange in Public Administration – CIIIAP, in partnership with the Bahia State Secretariat for Fighting Poverty and Social Inequalities (SECOMP) has promoted a cycle of 19 seminars all over the State of Bahia. The seminars constitute a training program for Bahian mayors on how to insert the MDG in the planning process, and how to work assembled in order to accomplish such goals.
Dates: 31 January - 1 February 2006

Knowledge Management with Laurence Prusak
Larry Prusak is one of the most innovative knowledge management thinkers. He is founder and executive director of the Institute for Knowledge Management, a global consortium of people and organizations interested in advanced research and knowledge management practices. The conference is divided in two parts: in the morning, it will be held an international conference open to the public and a workshop focused on what works and what doesn’t work in knowledge management.
Date: 31 March 2006
Location: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

• allow interactive input and update of the information, based on a personal password
• gather relevant information about each course of Ph.D., Master or Specialization
• improve the information's retrieval facilities (based on several fields such as theme, language, country, etc.)

• Amitai Etzioni: Por qué la sociedad civil no es lo suficientemente buena
• Salvador Parrado, Elke Löffler y Tony Bovaird: Evaluación de la calidad de la gobernanza local: algunas lecciones de la experiencia europea
• Alfred Vernis Domènech: Asociaciones entre lo público y lo privado: en búsqueda de la complementariedad
• Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde: La implementación de los programas sociales como proceso estratégico y gerencial
• Denise Vitale: Reforma del Estado y democratización de la gestión pública: la experiencia brasileña del Presupuesto Participativo
• Ronny Rodríguez Chang: Participación ciudadana en los poderes legislativos de Costa Rica y Guatemala: lecciones aprendidas
• María Victoria Whittingham Munevar: Aportes de la teoría y la praxis para la nueva gobernanza

• 1st Prize: "Governança informacional como sustentação das ações de combate à corrupção" - Carla Andrea Ribeiro and Maria Eugênia Albino Andrade
• 2nd Prize: "Auditing, Accountability and Anticorruption: Multilateral Lending to Legislative Budget Oversight and External Auditing of Public Finances in Latin America" - Carlos Santiso
• 3rd Prize: "Corrupção, nepotismo e gestão predatória: um estudo do caso brasileiro e alternativas para seu enfrentamento" - Luiz Alberto dos Santos y Regina Luna dos Santos Cardoso

An African Path to Good Governance and Prosperity
South Africa’s process of peer review, the great national ‘conversation’ moves steadily forward with submissions being drawn up by institutitions and sectoral and community groupings amongst others, across the country. The South African government will also be presenting a submission and has been carrying out its own wide ranging conversations, across its departments and at a broad-based conference at the end of last year.
URL: http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/cpsi/unpan022304.pdf

Recent Publications

• Governance World Watch, Issues 75, 76 and 77 - http://www.unpan.org/major_development.asp
• Development Administration Newsletters - http://www.unpan.org/serials-international.asp

• UN Global E-government Readiness Report 2005: From E-government to E-inclusion - http://www.unpan.org/egovernment5.asp
• Public Enterprises and its Management: New Opportunities and Unresolved Challenges
• Decentralization: Poverty Reduction, Empowerment and Participation
• Innovations in Governance and Public Administration: Replicating What Works
• Auditing for Social Change: A Strategy for Citizen Engagement in Public Sector Accountability
• Public Sector Transparency and Accountability in Selected Arab Countries: Policies and Practices (in English)
• Public Sector Transparency and Accountability in Selected Arab Countries: Policies and Practices (in French)
• Human Resource Recruitment and Best Talent Retention Tool Kit for Public Sector
• Citizen Participation and Pro-Poor Budgeting
• Globalization and the State: Challenges for Economic Growth and Human Development
• Compendium - E-government Innovative Practices - http://www.unpan.org/autoretrieve/dpadm_pub.asp?content=dpadm

Recent Publications

• Building Trade Partnerships in the CIS

This paper was prepared for the Annual Session of the Committee on Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development (CTIED) of May 2005 where it was presented and discussed. It was written by Ms. Lorenza Jachia, Economic Affairs Officer, of the Trade, Development and Timber Division (TDTD) of UNECE.  The countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have long been working towards the elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to regional trade. This booklet reviews trade integration results so far, mainly those achieved in the context of the Eurasian Economic Community and of bilateral trade agreements negotiated under the umbrella of the CIS.

9th Issue of Comparative Studies of Public Administration in the Works
The EROPA Local Government Center is currently working on a special issue of the Comparative Studies of Public Administration Monograph Series. The issue will be the ninth of the series and will be focusing on "Civil Society and Local Governance: From the Asia and Pacific Regional Perspectives."  It will be edited by Dr. Akira Nakamura, Dean of the Graduate School of Meiji University and Adjunct Professor of the Local Autonomy College, Tokyo, Japan, which houses the EROPA Local Government Center. Co-editing the issue is Dean Alex B. Brillantes, Jr., EROPA's Deputy Secretary General for Research and Publications, and Professor Osamu Koike of Yokohama National University.

NEWS FROM ESCAP
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
http://www.unescap.org

ESCAP and Korean Government Sign Accord Paving Way for New Technology Centre
Aiming to help close the “digital divide,” the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Seoul Government sealed a pact on 31 January to open a technology centre in the Republic of Korea.  The Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development is expected to open its doors later this year in Incheon City, a technology hub located some 50 kilometres west of Seoul.  The new technology centre will providing training programmes in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) to benefit countries of the region, ESCAP said, emphasizing the importance of reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound international antipoverty targets. Goal Eight focuses on developing a global partnership for development and making the benefits of new technologies, especially ICT, widely available. The Korean Government will provide financial and in-kind contributions totalling $10 million, including premises, for the Centre’s first five years of operation.

URL: http://icce.typepad.com

Recent Publications

• “The Power of Engagement: How Helping Others Helps YOU”
• "Toward a Theory of Civic Engagement"

Recent Publications

• IIAS Newsletter 3 - 2005
  

NEWS FROM INSTRAW
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of
Women (INSTRAW)
http://www.un-instraw.org

Recent Publications

"Crossing Borders: Gender, Remittances and Development"
This paper presents a preliminary framework that will strengthen the understanding of the interrelationships between migration, gender, remittances and development and also serve as an entry point for future research and project proposals. This framework aims to establish the basis for formulating a more adequate response to questions such as: How does the growing feminisation of migration affect remittance flows? How can remittances contribute to the achievement of gender equality? and How can we mobilise remittances to achieve sustainable development that includes women?
URL: http://www.un-instraw.org/en/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=595&Itemid=108

NEWS FROM IPAC
Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC)
Institut d'administration publique du Canada (IAPC)
http://www.ipac.ca (English)
http://www.iapc.ca (French)

IPAC Emissions Reduction Training Program Receives Contract Extension
IPAC's Caspian Basin GHG emissions reduction training program (CTP) has received a contract extension. This extension was the result of continuing strong support from our Caspian Partners, and the positive results of an independent program review conducted by Marbek Resource Consultants Ltd. The CTP management team and Program Partners cooperated in a comprehensive evaluation process that was conducted in Canada, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in January 2005.

IPAC's Public Sector Blogger
IPAC's public sector blogger is breaking new ground. Our blogger is Ms. Carleen Carroll, Director of Community Relations in the Halton Region Government (Ontario). She is responsible for communication and customer service functions, internal and external communications, change management processes and raising brand awareness, and public consultation and communication strategies. Join her in reflecting on the work public servants do in engaging the public on the issues that matter. Let's talk about how public servants dialogue with the public!   Go to http://www.quantumgovernance.ca/wordpress.

Recent Publications

• “Managing Service Transformation Relationships between Government and Industry: Developing Best Practices” (New Directions #17) is available for download. This timely report examines how the public sector and the private sector have successfully partnered to deliver “service transformation” to the public. Focusing on seven cases from across Canada and all levels of government, the study proposes 20 steps that should be followed to ensure success. This report was written by Patrice Dutil (Director of Research at IPAC), Prof. John Langford (University of Victoria) and Prof. Jeffrey Roy (University of Ottawa). To download, go to http://www.ipac.ca/pubs/new_directions/index.html.

Recent Publications

• January issue of IPMA-HR News is available online at www.ipma-hr.org (for IPMA-HR members only)
• The weekly IPMA-HR HR Bulletin is available online at www.ipma-hr.org (for IPMA-HR members only)
• The December issue of the bimonthly electronic IPMA-HR International News is available online at www.ipma-hr.org
• The Winter 2005 issue of Public Personnel Management is available online at www.ipma-hr.org (for IPMA-HR members only)
• The November issue of the Federal Section News is available online at http://www.ipma-hr.org/index.cfm?navid=130
• The December issue of the Assessment Council News is available online at www.ipmaac.org
• Various press releases can be found online at www.ipma-hr.org

NEWS FROM RCOCI
Regional Cooperation Office for City Informatization (RCOCI)
http://www.apcity.org

RCOCI Attended the First Annual Forum of Informatization and Shanghai Expo
The First Annual Forum of Informatization and Shanghai Expo was held in Shanghai Exhibition Center on 5 November, 2005. Based on the platform of 7th Shanghai Industry Fair, this forum focused on the theme of informatization and digital world expo, and combined with the development and prospect of city informatization. It is committed to outline the development trend and framework of China's information industry and to enhance the communication and cooperation between government and leaders of information industry. Hot topics of informatization planning and construction of 2010 Shanghai Expo were discussed, while common understanding and willingness for further collaboration were reached.
URL: http://www.ifise.org/index.htm

RCOCI Appoints Professor Wang Jianhua as Chief Editor
RCOCI is pleased to announce that Mr. Wang Jianhua, a retired professor of history at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, has been appointed as Chief Editor of UNPAN Asia-Pacific Center. Mr. Wang and his staff have made important contributions to the UNPAN-RCOCI web site, and he is proud to enjoy the support from all those concerned.

Recent Publications

• Asia-Pacific City Informatization Bulletin, Winter 2005, Issue 12
• Governance Asia-Pacific Watch, January 2006, Issue 50
• Governance Asia-Pacific Watch, December 2005, Issue 49
• Governance Asia-Pacific Watch, November 2005, Issue 48

Top 10 Most Visited Documents in 2005 According to Progress Report on UNPAN Implementation

NEWS FROM UNCRD
United Nations Centre for Regional Development
http://www.uncrd.or.jp

Recent UNCRD Activities

• The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), Viet Nam, and UNCRD organised “Viet Nam National 3R Policy Formulation Meeting,” in Hanoi, Viet Nam, 20-22 December 2005. Twenty-two governmental officials from relevant ministries and national experts participated to formulate Vietnamese National 3R Strategy through a participatory process.
• The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and UNCRD organised a “Mini-Workshop on Human Security Assessment in Sri Lanka,” in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 20-21 December 2005 to promote and operationalise the human security approach in development planning and monitoring in Sri Lanka. For more information, visit: http://www.uncrd.or.jp/hs/05f_slminiws.
• The Cooperation for Planning and Investment, Government of Lao PDR (CPI), JICA, and UNCRD organised the “Eighth In-Country Training Course on Local Development Planning and Management: Focus on Training of Trainers (TOT),” in Xam Neua, Huaphanh Province, Lao PDR, 5-17 December 2005. About 30 participants from five provinces attended the training course.
• The Bogota-Cundinamarca Regional Planning Board -RPB (Government of the City of Bogota, Government of the State of Cundinamarca, Autonomous Regional Corporation of Cundinamarca-CAR) and UNCRD organised “In-Country Training Course on Integrated Regional Development Management with Focus on Building Capacity For Local and Municipal Participation in the Implementation of the Regional Agenda 2005-2008 in Bogota-Cundinamarca,” in Bogota, Colombia, 28 November - 1 December 2005. Seventy-five municipal and local officials from Bogota and Cundinamarca, and officials from the central offices of the RPB entities participated the training course.
• UNCRD will hold its 34th International Training Course in Regional Development (ITC) from 18 May to 28 June 2006. The six-week Course will deliver the expected outcomes through a compact programme replete with cases for study and discussion, as well as field study visits to provide insights into Japan's regional development experience. For more information, visit: http://www.uncrd.or.jp/tr/index_itc.html.

Recent Publications

• Annual Report 2004 (in English)
  
• Newsletter January-June 2005, No. 59 (in English)
  
• Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 25, No. 2, Autumn 2004, “Sustainable Livelihoods for Human Security”