Promoting Inclusive and Accountable Public Services for Sustainable Development

A/RES/69/327View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 21b Culture and sustainable development, published in 2014.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 7	Institutions and digital transformation	22
	Subprogramme 9	Planning and public management for development	6

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 7	Institutions and digital transformation	22	—
	Subprogramme 9	Planning and public management for development	6	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Accountability Capacity Building International Cooperation Public Services Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that the United Nations system has a central role to play in promoting international cooperation in strengthening public institutions and public services for sustainable development;

Also reaffirms that the foundations for sustainable development at all levels include transparent, inclusive, participatory and accountable public institutions and professional, ethical, responsive and information and communications technology-enabled public services;

Encourages all countries that have not yet done so to ratify and accede to the United Nations Convention against Corruption,Error: Reference source not found and encourages parties to review its implementation, while reiterating the commitment to making the Convention an effective instrument to deter, detect, prevent and counter corruption and bribery, prosecute those involved in corrupt activities and recover and return stolen assets to their country of origin, and to strengthening international cooperation and national institutions to combat money-laundering and the financing of terrorism;

Encourages the international community to develop good practices on asset return, while supporting the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank and other international initiatives that support the recovery of stolen assets, urges that regional conventions against corruption be updated and ratified, and reiterates the aim of eliminating safe havens that create incentives for transfer abroad of stolen assets and illicit financial flows, while working to strengthen regulatory frameworks at all levels to further increase transparency and accountability of financial institutions and the corporate sector, as well as public administrations;

Urges the international community to continue to promote the exchange of information, the exchange of experience and the sharing of lessons learned and best practices, as appropriate, in strengthening inclusive and accountable public institutions and public services;

Encourages Member States, observer States and observers to promote effective and accountable leadership, high standards of professionalism, ethics, integrity, transparency, accountability, responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness in public institutions and the delivery of public services at all appropriate levels;

Reaffirms that the foundations of sustainable development at all levels include transparent, participatory and accountable governance and a professional, ethical, responsive and information and communications technology-enabled public administration, and encourages the international community to continue to support capacity development in public governance and institution-building at all levels, with a view to accelerating progress towards sustainable development;

Recognizes the importance of strengthening public administration institutions, improving public sector human resources capacity and fostering knowledge creation and innovation and the utilization of information technology for development in public administration and in the implementation of internationally agreed development goals;

Encourages Member States to utilize information and communications technologies in the design of public policies and the provision of public services in order to support national development efforts and respond effectively to national and local needs and priorities;

Underlines that service to citizens should be at the centre of transforming public administration, requiring appropriate institutional frameworks, professional and ethical leadership, a focus on diversity and gender equality, harnessing information and communications technologies, innovation, responsibility and public sector capacity-building;

Recognizes, in their specific context, the positive contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities, including through some of their traditional values and principles, to strengthening individual and societal commitments in order to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and transparency of public administration and promote inclusive and accountable public services for sustainable development, including the Andean principles of ama suwa (do not be a thief), ama llulla (do not be a liar) and ama qhilla (do not be lazy), the Inupiat values of pitqiksiġautaiññiq (honesty) and qiksiksrautiqaġniq (respect for others) and the Blackfoot value of tukuki (impartiality and incorruptibility), while recognizing that it is a duty of States, regardless of their political, economic and cultural systems, to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Calls for renewed efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in public services and to enhance equality in access to services by all, especially persons with disabilities, the elderly, women, youth, children and other disadvantaged groups;

Stresses the need for government institutions, the judicial system and the legislative system to be gender-sensitive and for the continued promotion of the full participation of women in such institutions;

Encourages all States, observers and relevant United Nations institutions to continue to intensify their cooperation, including in capacity-building, with the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions in order to promote good governance at all levels by ensuring efficiency, accountability, effectiveness and transparency through strengthened supreme audit institutions, including, as appropriate, the improvement of public accounting systems;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide assistance, in particular to developing countries, at their request, in their efforts to strengthen public institutions and public services for sustainable development by, inter alia, fostering information-sharing and the exchange of experience, lessons learned and best practices, as appropriate, including through United Nations Public Service Day, the United Nations Public Service Awards and the United Nations Public Administration Network, providing assistance in institution-building and improving the integration and coordination, as well as the innovation, of public sector initiatives and activities in sustainable development;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the status of the implementation of and follow-up to the present resolution in the context of his reporting on the Committee of Experts on Public Administration.

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