Remarks by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General of The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
OECD Event Agenda: Risk Governance and Resilient Cities, at the UN World Conf...OECD Governance
Agenda for the OECD event on "Risk Governance and Resilient Cities", at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, Japan, 16 March 2015. For further information see www.oecd.org/gov/risk/un-world-conference-on-disaster-risk-reduction-2015.htm
OECD International Forum on Open Government - AgendaOECD Governance
The International Forum on Open Government gathers open government leaders from around the world in order to debate the contribution of the principles of transparency, accountability and citizens’ participation to good governance and socio-economic development. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/international-forum-on-open-government.htm
Diaspora organizations and their humanitarian response in tunisiaJamaity
How has the Tunisian diaspora responded when COVID-19 hit their country of origin? How did they support and engage with families, communities back in Tunisia? And did they coordinate with the wider humanitarian system when delivering humanitarian aid?
DEMAC has conducted a Real-time review between July and September 2021, providing a rapid analysis of the humanitarian response of Tunisian diaspora organizations to the fourth and most severe wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Normal life came to an abrupt halt in the first quarter of 2020 as the COVID-19 virus spread around the globe. Confronted by myriad unprecedented challenges, including political and economic unrest, the closure of civic space, and a decline in financial viability, CSOs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) demonstrated remarkable resilience. They reacted quickly to the constantly changing circumstances by providing critical services, thereby demonstrating their value to the societies in which they are based. In addition, CSOs increasingly adopted new technologies, allowing them to develop new ways of working, providing services to their constituents, and increasing their own capacities. The pandemic thus served as a litmus test, both exposing CSOs’ vulnerabilities and highlighting their resilience. This year’s CSO Sustainability Index for MENA, which reports on the state of CSO sectors in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen, describes both these opportunities and challenges.
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/08.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/03.html
E-government—digital interactions between governments and people—varies greatly among and within regions, but most countries are making progress on providing greater access, according to the 2014 UN E-Government Survey launched today. The findings show that the Republic of Korea tops the global e-government ranking, and that Europe remains first among regions.
The report also shows that many countries are expanding electronic participation, utilizing more mobile and social media tools, expanding usage and making more government data available online. However, challenges remain, such as lack of resources, digital inequalities and a lack of leadership for e-government.
“E-government holds tremendous potential to improve the way that governments deliver public services and enhance broad stakeholder involvement in public service,” said Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Secretary-General for the International Conference on Small Island Developing States.
For more information: http://unpan3.un.org/egovkb#.U7HG_PldVlq
OECD Event Agenda: Risk Governance and Resilient Cities, at the UN World Conf...OECD Governance
Agenda for the OECD event on "Risk Governance and Resilient Cities", at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, Japan, 16 March 2015. For further information see www.oecd.org/gov/risk/un-world-conference-on-disaster-risk-reduction-2015.htm
OECD International Forum on Open Government - AgendaOECD Governance
The International Forum on Open Government gathers open government leaders from around the world in order to debate the contribution of the principles of transparency, accountability and citizens’ participation to good governance and socio-economic development. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/international-forum-on-open-government.htm
Diaspora organizations and their humanitarian response in tunisiaJamaity
How has the Tunisian diaspora responded when COVID-19 hit their country of origin? How did they support and engage with families, communities back in Tunisia? And did they coordinate with the wider humanitarian system when delivering humanitarian aid?
DEMAC has conducted a Real-time review between July and September 2021, providing a rapid analysis of the humanitarian response of Tunisian diaspora organizations to the fourth and most severe wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Normal life came to an abrupt halt in the first quarter of 2020 as the COVID-19 virus spread around the globe. Confronted by myriad unprecedented challenges, including political and economic unrest, the closure of civic space, and a decline in financial viability, CSOs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) demonstrated remarkable resilience. They reacted quickly to the constantly changing circumstances by providing critical services, thereby demonstrating their value to the societies in which they are based. In addition, CSOs increasingly adopted new technologies, allowing them to develop new ways of working, providing services to their constituents, and increasing their own capacities. The pandemic thus served as a litmus test, both exposing CSOs’ vulnerabilities and highlighting their resilience. This year’s CSO Sustainability Index for MENA, which reports on the state of CSO sectors in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen, describes both these opportunities and challenges.
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/08.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/03.html
E-government—digital interactions between governments and people—varies greatly among and within regions, but most countries are making progress on providing greater access, according to the 2014 UN E-Government Survey launched today. The findings show that the Republic of Korea tops the global e-government ranking, and that Europe remains first among regions.
The report also shows that many countries are expanding electronic participation, utilizing more mobile and social media tools, expanding usage and making more government data available online. However, challenges remain, such as lack of resources, digital inequalities and a lack of leadership for e-government.
“E-government holds tremendous potential to improve the way that governments deliver public services and enhance broad stakeholder involvement in public service,” said Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Secretary-General for the International Conference on Small Island Developing States.
For more information: http://unpan3.un.org/egovkb#.U7HG_PldVlq
Remarks by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General of The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/06.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/05.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/07.html
Global Forum on Public Governance, "Women's Leadership in Public Life: Fostering Diversity for Inclusive Growth". OECD, Paris 2-4 April, 2014. More information at http://www.oecd.org/gov/oecdglobalforumonpublicgovernance.htm
Youth report presentation
PRESENTATION OF THE OECD REGIONAL REPORT “YOUTH IN THE MENA REGION: HOW TO BRING THEM IN” Steering Group Meeting of the MENA-OECD Initiative 9 November 2015, Rabat
Agenda: Women in Public Life in the Middle East and North Africa, 5 March 201...OECD Governance
The event “Women in Public Life in the Middle East and North Africa” will be held on 5th March 2015 in Madrid, Spain. The discussions will examine good practices and challenges on gender sensitive policies and gender budgeting, as well as the progress made in legal reforms to advance on gender equality and promote women’s political participation in the region.
popular participation-decentralization-in-africa-minJamaity
At the end of World War II, all but three African nations (Ethiopia, Liberia and South
Africa) were ruled by some European State. Then the independence movement began:
first in North Africa with Libya (1951), and over the next five years, Egypt, the Sudan.
Tunisia and Morocco. The Sub-Saharan States soon followed, beginning with Ghana
(1957) and, by 1990, 42 other countries. Being newly independent and largely poor,
the thinking was that if a country could come up with a national plan for generating
and investing a sufficient amount of funds in a manner consistent with macro stability,
then that country would have met the pre-conditions for development. It would
be a “State” (central government) — led process whereby “the flexibility to implement
policies by technocrats was accorded price-of-place and accountability through checks
and balances was regarded as an encumbrance” (World Bank, WDR, 1997). It was not
an unreasonable strategy: national governments populated by good advisers and with
external technical and financial assistance would put the country on the sure path to
growth and development
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/04.html
Millions of people’s lives have improved due to concerted global, regional, national and local efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which serve as the foundation for the next global development agenda, according to the report launched by the Secretary-General on 7 July 2014.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/publications/mdg-report-2014.html#more-873
Today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa, according to a new United Nations report launched on 10 July 2014.
Gave a talk at StartCon about the future of Growth. I touch on viral marketing / referral marketing, fake news and social media, and marketplaces. Finally, the slides go through future technology platforms and how things might evolve there.
The Six Highest Performing B2B Blog Post FormatsBarry Feldman
If your B2B blogging goals include earning social media shares and backlinks to boost your search rankings, this infographic lists the size best approaches.
Each technological age has been marked by a shift in how the industrial platform enables companies to rethink their business processes and create wealth. In the talk I argue that we are limiting our view of what this next industrial/digital age can offer because of how we read, measure and through that perceive the world (how we cherry pick data). Companies are locked in metrics and quantitative measures, data that can fit into a spreadsheet. And by that they see the digital transformation merely as an efficiency tool to the fossil fuel age. But we need to stretch further…
32 Ways a Digital Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your BusinessBarry Feldman
How can a digital marketing consultant help your business? In this resource we'll count the ways. 24 additional marketing resources are bundled for free.
The “Definitions of Empowerment” represents a collaborative effort, made possible by the answers received from people all over the world on the Empowerment theme. Their invaluable contributions were essential for the preparation of the Empowerment Publication.
In order to collect people’s ideas and experiences, the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of UNDESA launched an on-line survey on “Promoting Empowerment of People”.
Remarks by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General of The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/06.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/05.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/07.html
Global Forum on Public Governance, "Women's Leadership in Public Life: Fostering Diversity for Inclusive Growth". OECD, Paris 2-4 April, 2014. More information at http://www.oecd.org/gov/oecdglobalforumonpublicgovernance.htm
Youth report presentation
PRESENTATION OF THE OECD REGIONAL REPORT “YOUTH IN THE MENA REGION: HOW TO BRING THEM IN” Steering Group Meeting of the MENA-OECD Initiative 9 November 2015, Rabat
Agenda: Women in Public Life in the Middle East and North Africa, 5 March 201...OECD Governance
The event “Women in Public Life in the Middle East and North Africa” will be held on 5th March 2015 in Madrid, Spain. The discussions will examine good practices and challenges on gender sensitive policies and gender budgeting, as well as the progress made in legal reforms to advance on gender equality and promote women’s political participation in the region.
popular participation-decentralization-in-africa-minJamaity
At the end of World War II, all but three African nations (Ethiopia, Liberia and South
Africa) were ruled by some European State. Then the independence movement began:
first in North Africa with Libya (1951), and over the next five years, Egypt, the Sudan.
Tunisia and Morocco. The Sub-Saharan States soon followed, beginning with Ghana
(1957) and, by 1990, 42 other countries. Being newly independent and largely poor,
the thinking was that if a country could come up with a national plan for generating
and investing a sufficient amount of funds in a manner consistent with macro stability,
then that country would have met the pre-conditions for development. It would
be a “State” (central government) — led process whereby “the flexibility to implement
policies by technocrats was accorded price-of-place and accountability through checks
and balances was regarded as an encumbrance” (World Bank, WDR, 1997). It was not
an unreasonable strategy: national governments populated by good advisers and with
external technical and financial assistance would put the country on the sure path to
growth and development
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/04.html
Millions of people’s lives have improved due to concerted global, regional, national and local efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which serve as the foundation for the next global development agenda, according to the report launched by the Secretary-General on 7 July 2014.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/publications/mdg-report-2014.html#more-873
Today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa, according to a new United Nations report launched on 10 July 2014.
Gave a talk at StartCon about the future of Growth. I touch on viral marketing / referral marketing, fake news and social media, and marketplaces. Finally, the slides go through future technology platforms and how things might evolve there.
The Six Highest Performing B2B Blog Post FormatsBarry Feldman
If your B2B blogging goals include earning social media shares and backlinks to boost your search rankings, this infographic lists the size best approaches.
Each technological age has been marked by a shift in how the industrial platform enables companies to rethink their business processes and create wealth. In the talk I argue that we are limiting our view of what this next industrial/digital age can offer because of how we read, measure and through that perceive the world (how we cherry pick data). Companies are locked in metrics and quantitative measures, data that can fit into a spreadsheet. And by that they see the digital transformation merely as an efficiency tool to the fossil fuel age. But we need to stretch further…
32 Ways a Digital Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your BusinessBarry Feldman
How can a digital marketing consultant help your business? In this resource we'll count the ways. 24 additional marketing resources are bundled for free.
The “Definitions of Empowerment” represents a collaborative effort, made possible by the answers received from people all over the world on the Empowerment theme. Their invaluable contributions were essential for the preparation of the Empowerment Publication.
In order to collect people’s ideas and experiences, the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of UNDESA launched an on-line survey on “Promoting Empowerment of People”.
This Compendium of Innovative Practices of Citizen Engagement by Supreme Audit Institutions for Public Accountability provides an overview of successful examples and innovations in the engagement of citizens by Supreme Audit Institutions(SAIs). It is indebted to the deliberations on Effective practices of cooperation between Supreme Audit Institutions and citizens to enhance public accountability of the 21st United Nations/International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (UN/INTOSAI) Symposium, held in 2011.
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/index.html
The national anti corruption conference 2014Lwazi L.
The purpose of the National Anti-Corruption Conference 2014 is to lobby for multi-sectoral collaboration and standardisation in the fight against corruption in South Africa. The Conference provides an opportunity for high-level
government and business representatives, as well as civil society, to examine best practices for combating corruption with a particular focus on; promoting transparency and integrity in organising sport and other major events and
establishing cutting-edge measures for governments and business to combat corruption.
Speech delivered, one year onwards, for the launch of " Our Common Agenda" plan and proposal- by SG Guterres.
Speech delivered at the UNGA, 4th August, 2022
This publication provides an overview of 145 successful innovations in governance and public administration from 50 countries that received the United Nations Public Service Awards, which is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. The purpose of this book is to disseminate, through descriptive case studies, information about innovative practices by looking at the problem that led to an innovation; the solution that was designed and implemented to respond to the specific challenge; the actors and steps involved in the innovation process, and lessons learned. Learning more about how public institutions from around the world have solved difficult governance challenges can be a powerful and inspirational tool for those engaged in improving public sector performance.
Speech by Ambassador Andrea Matteo Fontana, EU Delegation to Jordan, launching ceremony of the SIGMA report on "Integrity risk assessment in the Jordanian Procurement System", 30 January 2017.
The Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Develo...Dr Lendy Spires
Post-2015 “Our vision and our responsibility are to end extreme poverty in all its forms in the context of sustainable development and to have in place the building blocks of sustained prosperity for all.” i ThePanelcametogetherwithasenseofoptimismandadeeprespectfortheMillennium Development Goals (MDGs). The 13 years since the millennium have seen the fastest reduction in poverty in human history: there are half a billion fewer people living below an international poverty line of $1.25 a day. Child death rates have fallen by more than 30%, with about three million children’s lives saved each year compared to 2000. Deaths from malaria have fallen by one quarter. This unprecedented progress has been driven by a combination of economic growth, better policies, and the global commitment to the MDGs, which set out an inspirational rallying cry for the whole world. Given this remarkable success, it would be a mistake to simply tear up the MDGs and start from scratch.
A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through S...Andy Dabydeen
The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,” a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. The report calls upon the world to rally around a new Global Partnership that offers hope and a role to every person in the world.
The Panel was established by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron.
http://www.post2015hlp.org/the-report/
This presentation give a person various information from the functions, the people who have lead it, achievements and lots of other information on the UNDP.
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This monthly briefing highlights that financing conditions improve in euro area peripheral countries and in emerging economies, that the US economy bounces back after a difficult first quarter and that China’s first-quarter GDP growth is the slowest in two years.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
The World Youth Report 2013—Youth Migration and Development is the product of the efforts, contributions and support of many people and organizations. From the outset, the process of developing the Report involved a range of participatory
consultations designed to draw on the perspectives of youth on how migration affects them. These consultative sessions
included a five-week e-consultation process, a survey on youth migration and development, a call for visual art
illustrating the daily life experiences of young migrants as well as youth initiatives on migration and development,
and a Google+ Hangout held on 6 March 2013 to identify sustainable solutions for addressing youth migration challenges.
For more information: http://www.unworldyouthreport.org/
The global economy is expected to strengthen over the next two years, despite a downgrade of growth prospects for some developing economies and economies in transition, according to the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2014 mid-year update, launched on 21 May, 2014. Global growth has been revised slightly lower from the forecasts presented in the WESP 2014. Growth of world gross product (WGP) is now projected at 2.8 per cent in 2014 and 3.2 per cent in 2015, up from 2.2 per cent in 2013. However, this pace of expansion is still low compared to the growth path before the 2008 global financial crisis.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/index.shtml
The slides contain the detailed maps and graphs of World Fertility Patterns 2013 wall chart which presents the latest data available on indicators of fertility patterns at the national, regional and world levels.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/fertility/fertility-patterns-2013.shtml
The slides contain the detailed maps and graphs of World Contraceptive Patterns 2013 wall chart which presents the latest data available on two of the indicators under Millennium Development Goal 5 to improve maternal health: contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning. Estimates of specific contraceptive methods used in major areas and sub-regions of the world are also presented.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/family/contraceptive-wallchart-2013.shtml
This monthly briefing highlights that global employment remains a challenge; the United States Federal Reserve faces challenges in adjusting its monetary policy and that financial markets in emerging economies attempted to stabilize.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
The Economic and Social Council will hold its Special high-level meeting with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on 14 and 15 April at the United Nations Headquarters, New York. The overall theme of the meeting will be “Coherence, coordination and cooperation in the context of financing for sustainable development and the post-2015 development agenda”.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ecosoc/springmeetings/2014/index.htm
This monthly briefing highlights how the world economy is struggling to gain momentum, emerging economies facing policy dilemma in trying to stabilize currencies and the G20 meeting making a call for new measures to lift growth and create jobs.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
This monthly briefing highlights that emerging economies face renewed financial turbulence, that US economy registered robust GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2013 and that the last quarter of 2013 revealed a heterogeneous economic performance in the developing world.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
Published by the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of UN DESA, the report places special focus on policy and disadvantaged social groups, in addition to examining the consequences of high inequality. “Much can be learnt from those countries that managed to reduce inequality even under an uncertain and volatile global environment,” said Mr. Wu Hongbo, UN DESA’s Under–Secretary-General. “The international community can play a role in providing support to policies that help reduce inequality.”
A unique contribution of the report is that it brings special attention to the disparities that are experienced by five specific social and population groups – youth, indigenous peoples, older persons, persons with disabilities and migrants – and also illustrates how such disparities intersect with and reinforce one another.
The report illustrates that growing inequalities can be brought to a stop by integrated policies that are universal in principle while paying particular attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations. It reminds world leaders that, in addressing inequalities, policy matters.
For more information:
http://undesadspd.org/ReportontheWorldSocialSituation/2013.aspx
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/02.html
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014 reports that the global economy is improving but remains vulnerable to new and old headwinds. Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate from a sluggish 2.1 per cent in 2013 to 3.0 per cent in 2014 and 3.3 per cent in 2015. The report warns of the risks associated with the upcoming unwinding of quantitative easing programs in major developed economies.
For more information: http://bit.ly/WESP
This monthly briefing highlights that the world economy is expected to improve in 2014; that unemployment rates remain a major challenge; and downside risks to the baseline scenario persist.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/index.html
This monthly briefing highlights that anaemic economic recovery is accompanied by tame inflation in developed economies; that GDP growth is stronger than expected in the United States and that currencies in some emerging economies are under pressure again.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
International Human Solidarity Day serves to remind us about the importance of solidarity for the achievement of the international agreements on social development, including programmes of action of international conferences and multilateral accords. The theme in 2013 is "Bridging the gaps to reach the Millennium Development Goals".
For more information:
http://undesadspd.org/InternationalDays/InternationalHumanSolidarityDay/2013.aspx
What is the outlook for the global economy in 2014 and beyond? Get the latest figures and updates on current trends in the first chapter of the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2014: The global economic outlook released on 18 December 2013.
For more information: http://bit.ly/WESP
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/index.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/index.html
This monthly briefing highlights that global manufacturing production has improved. Economic recovery is slowly strengthening in developed economies; and public fiscal stimulus programmes have been a determinant factor in economic growth in many developing countries.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/index.shtml
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21st session of UN-INTOSAI Symposium
Remarks by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General of The 2012 UN Conference on
Sustainable Development
Vienna, 13 July 2011
Mr. Terence Nombembe [Chairman of the Governing Board of INTOSAI and Auditor General of South Africa],
Mr. Joseph Moser [President of the Court of Audit of Austria and Secretary General of INTOSAI],
Mr. Wolfgang Waldner [Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affair of Austria],
Mr. Anders Johnson [Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union],
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great pleasure to attend the UN/INTOSAI Symposium.
I am told that I am the first Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs to attend the Symposium.
For several years, I have been trying to join you and share my thoughts. I have profound respect for supreme audit institutions
(SAIs) and for the work you do.
You help make our world a better one, cleaner, healthier and stronger.
So, I wish to start by thanking INTOSAI for collaborating with the United Nations and for working with the Department of Economic
and Social Affairs in convening this 21st UN-INTOSAI Symposium.
Our two organizations have had a long history of collaboration.
It is a collaboration that has yielded concrete benefits for our Member States, by enhancing public awareness of the role and
contributions of supreme audit institutions and by disseminating the message of clean government, accountability and anti-corruption.
Excellencies,
While we celebrate our achievements, we are also keenly aware that we can, and should do more.
Amid continuing waves of globalization, our world is undergoing historic change.
Right now, humanity stands at a crossroads.
Some signs point in the right direction. Growth in a number of developing countries has contributed to poverty reductions. Thanks to
social development, we have also witnessed improved child health and education, including for girls. Before the global financial crisis,
the world was largely on track to meet the MDGs by 2015. Given political will, we can redouble our efforts and we can be back on
track to achieving the MDGs, as shown at the MDG Summit last September.
Yet, other signs point in the wrong direction. Our ecosystems are under unprecedented stresses. Recently, a new report on the
world’s oceans found that accelerated environmental changes are causing much more serious damage than previously thought. We
see food, oil and other commodity prices at historic highs. More and more countries are water stressed.
These crises are interlinked. Our dependence on fossil fuels worsens climate change, which in turn is threatening food production,
leading to social unrest.
How can we tackle these inter-linked crises? How does this have to do with INTOSAI?
The answer is simple - Everything!
It has everything to do with INTOSAI, its members and your work.
Supreme audit institutions play a major role in auditing government accounts and operations and in promoting sound financial
management and overall accountability.
You promote good governance by enhancing transparency, accountability, by fighting corruption and by fostering the efficient and
effective use of public resources for the benefit of the public.
All of this work contributes to strengthening the three pillars of sustainable development.
The simple truth is – without good governance, sustainable development will not be sustained.
Excellencies,
I come before you today to appeal to you – join us in our shared pursuit of global sustainable development – an environmentally
sustainable, socially just, equitable and economically prosperous world.
It is time we re-energize and reinforce our collaboration toward this goal.
It is time we bring our historic partnership to new heights.
We are ready to open a new Chapter in our collaboration.
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Dear Colleagues,
Our discussions at this Symposium will focus on how supreme audit institutions can promote citizen engagement in accountability
and how we can communicate the very relevant work of these institutions to the public.
The United Nations is ready to help disseminate your role and your tremendous contributions.
In doing so, we are highlighting our shared messages on accountability, anti-corruption and good governance.
During the three days of this 21st Symposium, I hope we will manage to identify ways in which our future cooperation can promote
these shared objectives.
In this context, I would like to elaborate on anti-corruption.
Corruption continues to be endemic in many countries, developed and developing. This is not a developing world problem. As well
as morally apprehensible, corruption affects overall economic performance, damages people’s trust in public institutions and threatens
the Rule of Law.
From a development perspective, corruption undermines the allocation of resources, leads to wastes and adds to business costs.
It weakens the institutional foundation on which sustainable development depends.
Sadly, corruption hurts the poor more, who already bear the brunt of economic decline, are more dependent on the provision of
public services, and are least capable of paying the extra costs associated with all forms of corruption.
Clearly, good governance must start with and end with fight against corruption.
For several years, I have told my UN colleagues – public administration must accord priority attention to fighting corruption.
There will be no efficient and effective public administration so long as the scourge of corruption continues to poison public services
to citizens. Only by fostering accountability, transparency and anti-corruption can we create an enabling environment to achieve the
vision of sustainable development.
At my request, DESA has undertaken several initiatives.
The Department is actively engaged with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), based here in Vienna, in
implementing the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
Through our Division of Public Administration and Development Management, DESA and UNODC have created a new category within
the United Nations Public Service Awards. This award acknowledges those practices pursued by public administration to prevent and
fight corruption.
Three weeks ago in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, the UN recognized innovative practices in this category for the first time, at the UN
Public Service Awards. Local governments and public institutions in Egypt, Mexico, Oman, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia and
South Africa won the awards. The awards were given to initiatives that are considered both effective and replicable in other countries
in fighting corruption, in areas such as transparent public procurement, transparent recruitment of civil servants and fair elections.
Also, together with UNODC, we have initiated capacity-building activities, such as training workshops and expert group meetings, to
improve public sector institutions, enhance accountability and prevent corruption.
Excellencies,
We are ready to broaden and deepen our collaboration with INTOSAI and its members in this area. We need your expertise in audit
and your knowledge of accountability.
In this regard, allow me to raise one question – how can this biennial forum be used to advance sustainable development by
sharing lessons learned and best practices in strengthening public institutions, including audit institutions? How can we use this
Symposium and other collaborative activities, including capacity building activities, in order to help Member States attain the best
possible performance in public administration, and thereby serve the needs of all people?
I hope this 21st session of UN-INTOSAI Symposium will provide us with concrete ideas for action and for the way forward.
On our side, I have instructed DESA and its Division for Public Administration and Development Management to start building up our
capacity in accountability, good governance and anti-corruption, working in conjunction with UNODC and INTOSAI.
Together, we can do more than we can do alone.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Before I conclude, I want to bring to your attention the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20.
Rio+20 will focus on two themes, a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and the
institutional framework for sustainable development, which is the UN speak for governance for sustainable development.
Good governance at all levels is essential for sustainable development.
There is a lot INTOSAI and its members can do in support of good governance for sustainable development.
Member States are looking at various options to strengthen institutions for sustainable development at the national, regional and
international levels.
In my capacity as the Secretary-General of Rio+20, I invite you to examine this theme, assess gaps and obstacles and put forward
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your proposals for action and solutions.
Let INTOSAI and its members be our partner in our journey toward sustainable development.
Rio+20 is about tomorrow, about the future. And sustainable development should be our common future.
History has given all of us an opportunity to make a difference. You can contribute, by helping Member States build better
institutions for sustainable development.
Let us do it, together, in partnership.
I thank you.
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