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Beyond Violence
Conflict Resolution Process in Northern Ireland
After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...
After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...
Global Financial Turmoil and Reform
A United Nations Perspective
As Asia's financial and economic crisis which started in 1997, deepened and spread around the world, United Nations economists on five continents shared notes to understand the upheaval and suggest...
As Asia's financial and economic crisis which started in 1997, deepened and spread around the world, United Nations economists on five continents shared notes to understand the upheaval and suggest...
Cold-water Coral Reefs
Out of Sight - No Longer Out of Mind
This document presents a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of information and data on marine cold-water coral reefs from around the world. It describes the various cold-water coral reef...
This document presents a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of information and data on marine cold-water coral reefs from around the world. It describes the various cold-water coral reef...
Cloud Forest Agenda
The Cloud Forest Agenda report is designed to stimulate new initiatives and partnerships for the conservation and restoration of tropical cloud forests around the world. It provides global maps of...
The Cloud Forest Agenda report is designed to stimulate new initiatives and partnerships for the conservation and restoration of tropical cloud forests around the world. It provides global maps of...
World Public Sector Report 2021
National Institutional Arrangements for Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals – A Five...
Five years after the start of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), governance issues remain at the forefront. The COVID-19...
Five years after the start of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), governance issues remain at the forefront. The COVID-19...
World Public Sector Report 2023
Transforming Institutions to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals After the Pandemic
This report examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic can play in advancing progress towards the 2030 Agenda for...
This report examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic can play in advancing progress towards the 2030 Agenda for...
World Public Sector Report 2019
Sustainable Development Goal 16: Focus on Public Institutions
This report 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...
This report 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...
World Public Sector Report 2003
E-Government at the Crossroads
The World Public Sector Report 2003 provides an analysis of the status of e-government in the world today. It adopts the UN Millennium Declaration as its analytical framework and presents global...
The World Public Sector Report 2003 provides an analysis of the status of e-government in the world today. It adopts the UN Millennium Declaration as its analytical framework and presents global...
World Public Sector Report 2010
Reconstructing Public Administration after Conflict: Challenges, Practices and Lessons Learned
The main objective of the 2010 World Public Sector Report is to analyze challenges, strategies and practices in rebuilding public administration after conflict. It is unique in that it provides key...
The main objective of the 2010 World Public Sector Report is to analyze challenges, strategies and practices in rebuilding public administration after conflict. It is unique in that it provides key...
World Public Sector Report 2005
Unlocking the Human Potential for Public Sector Performance
The conditions of globalization, including economic integration, fiscal discipline, introduction of information communications technologies and democratic governance, have increasingly forced states...
The conditions of globalization, including economic integration, fiscal discipline, introduction of information communications technologies and democratic governance, have increasingly forced states...
In the Front Line
Shoreline Protection and Other Ecosystem Services from Mangroves and Coral Reefs
The tragic and devastating consequences of the Asian tsunami, December 2004, and the hurricanes and cyclones of 2005 were a wake up call for the global community, dramatically drawing attention to the...
The tragic and devastating consequences of the Asian tsunami, December 2004, and the hurricanes and cyclones of 2005 were a wake up call for the global community, dramatically drawing attention to the...
Protected Areas and Biodiversity
An Overview of Key Issues
This publication synthesizes key aspects in the development of protected areas, the level of international commitment and the relationship of protected areas to sustainable development, and reviews...
This publication synthesizes key aspects in the development of protected areas, the level of international commitment and the relationship of protected areas to sustainable development, and reviews...
World Public Sector Report 2018
Working Together - Integration, Institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals
This report examines how the public sector can foster integrated approaches to implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It examines challenges and opportunities for...
This report examines how the public sector can foster integrated approaches to implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It examines challenges and opportunities for...
Inter-linkages
The Kyoto Protocol and the International Trade and Investment Regimes
In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which...
In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which...
World Public Sector Report 2008
People Matter - Civic Engagement in Public Governance
The World Public Sector Report, one of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(UNDESA) Flagship Reports, aims to capture the emerging issues, concerns and innovations in...
The World Public Sector Report, one of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(UNDESA) Flagship Reports, aims to capture the emerging issues, concerns and innovations in...
World Public Sector Report 2015
Responsive and Accountable Public Governance
This publication is based on highlights of the discussion held during the 12th Session of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), in 2013, on “The Role of Responsive and...
This publication is based on highlights of the discussion held during the 12th Session of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), in 2013, on “The Role of Responsive and...
World Public Sector Report 2001
Globalization and the State
It is increasingly being acknowledged that the State is a key actor in the development process. It has a major role to play in making globalization work for all; in alleviating poverty and income...
It is increasingly being acknowledged that the State is a key actor in the development process. It has a major role to play in making globalization work for all; in alleviating poverty and income...
Financing for Development
Proposals from Business and Civil Society
In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...
In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...