The Regional Symposium on Effective Governance is a UN DESA annual event in the Asia and the Pacific region and beyond. It seeks to raise awareness of critical public governance issues, examine current and future trends, and provide innovative approaches and new methodologies to support United Nations Member States in developing their capacities to accelerate the implementation of.....

  09:00 – 13:00 and 14:00– 17:00 | Vanuatu Time 07:00 – 11:00 and 12:00– 15:00 | KST (19-21 July New York) 18:00– 22:00 and 23:00– 02:00 | EDT     The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), through its Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) and with the support of its project office on governanc.....

    The focus of the consultative workshop was to convene national and local government agencies, development partners, donor representatives and civil society, including UCLG and ICLEI, to ensure greater coherence and integrated planning frameworks between disaster risk reduction, resilience, climate change adaptation and sustainable development. The workshop reviewed mechanisms for.....

      Workshop 6 on “Government Innovation for Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups” during the United Nations Public Service Forum (24-25 June 2019, Baku, Azerbaijan)   DPIDG, through its Project Office on Governance, organized the Workshop on “Government Innovation for Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups” with participants divers.....

      Interregional Capacity Development Workshop on Digital Government Implementation for SDGs (23-24 July 2019, Bangkok, Thailand)    DPIDG/UNPOG and DGB, in collaboration with UN ESCAP, organized the Interregional Capacity Development Workshop on Digital Government Implementation for SDGs on 23-24 July in Bangkok, Thailand. The aim of the Workshop was.....

  Key Messages Governments that consider risk in policymaking and successfully integrate risk management into their governance frameworks and development have a better record of DRR and resilience building.  Climate change is already changing the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, as well as increasing the vulnerabilities of countries in special situations including Small Is.....

  UNPOG’s Head, Amb. Lim was on a mission to Bangkok from 17-20 November 2013 to participate in 2013 Connect Asia-Pacific Summit organized by ITU. He attended the Opening Ceremony and the High-Level Panel, and he was also invited to the Multi-stakeholder Meeting and Partnership Announcements. At the Partnership Announcements session, Amb. Lim delivered the remarks, expressing UNPOG's.....

  Mr. Jae-hong Lim, Head of United Nations Project Office on Governance, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNPOG/DPADM/UNDESA), attended the Global e-Government Forum (GeGF) 2014 held on 7-8 October 2014 in Astana, Kazakhstan. He made a presentation on UNPOG’s recent research “E-Government.....

“ICT and E-Government in SIDS: Responding to the SAMOA Pathway Call for Action”   Special Event of the Sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly  Second Committee 14 November 2014, 3:00PM - 5:30PM, New York   Organized by the e-Government Branch and  the United Nations Project Office on Governance Division for Public Administration and .....

The Pacific ICT Ministerial Meeting, organised jointly by the University of the South Pacific (USP) in its capacity as Chair of the Council of Regional Organisation of the Pacific (CROP) ICT Working Group and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), was held on 19 June 2015, in Nuku’alofa, Tonga. The meeting was opened by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Tupouto’a ‘Ulukalala.....

The Chief of Governance and Thematic Group at ADB, Mr. Gambhir Bhatta, visited UNPOG on 14 February to discuss about future cooperation. The meeting was made as further follow-up to the first meeting in Seoul in November 2016 (http://unpog.org/media/media01_02.php?seq=448). Both sides briefly introduced their overall work areas and priority work programmes in 2017, and then exchanged views on collaboration, pa.....