Report of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration on Its 12th Session

E/RES/2013/23View PDF

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A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 13g Public administration and development, published in 2013.

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15 versions · 2008–2025

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Development Administration Local Government Public Administration

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15 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the conclusions of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration, contained in the report on its twelfth session, on the role of responsive and accountable public governance in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda;⁶

⁶Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 24 (E/2013/44), chap. III, sect. B.

Notes the involvement of the United Nations system in the work of the Committee, and encourages the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat and others to continue to strengthen inter-agency cooperation in addressing the multidimensional nature of governance and in promoting a holistic, transformative approach to governance, public administration and institutional development at the national and local levels, with a view to strengthening the enabling environment for sustainable development;

Also notes the global thematic consultation on governance, co-led by the United Nations Development Programme and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and its valuable contribution to promoting open, inclusive and broad-based deliberations on the post-2015 development agenda;

Reaffirms that the foundations for sustainable development at all levels include transparent, participatory and accountable governance and a professional, ethical, responsive and information and communications technology-enabled public administration;

Stresses the centrality of effective and responsive local governance with sufficient and appropriate authority and resources for sustainable development, and emphasizes the need to strengthen governance, public administration and professionalism at both the national and the local levels, to improve the delivery of public services;

Notes that the Committee has a role in supporting the Economic and Social Council in addressing the global development agenda, bearing in mind the need for expert and insightful global advice on governance and public administration in its various dimensions, and encourages the Committee to remain involved in and to contribute to the relevant intergovernmental and expert processes relating to the post-2015 development agenda and the follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, as appropriate;

Encourages Member States:

To promote effective leadership, high standards of professionalism, ethics, integrity, transparency, accountability, responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector at the national and local levels through, inter alia, the use of information and communications technologies;

To promote public trust and accountability by providing access to information, fostering the use of open government data in public institutions and publicly funded organizations and optimizing citizen engagement, including through relevant and ongoing initiatives, and requests the Secretary-General to take steps to support Governments in this regard, in cooperation with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and other United Nations system entities, as appropriate;

To continue to support capacity-building in public governance and institution-building at all levels by, inter alia, encouraging innovation in the public service, fully harnessing the potential of information and communications technologies in all areas of government, engaging citizens and encouraging public participation in managing development;

To promote the effective management of 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;

Requests the Secretariat to continue:

To address gaps in research, monitoring, capacity development and implementation in governance and public administration and, in particular, to further develop its public administration country studies and to increase the scope and depth of its capacity-development activities with the aim of better assisting countries, according to their specific contexts and needs, in strengthening participatory governance, strengthening public administration, advancing public-private partnerships, promoting innovation and knowledge transfer in the public sector and better defining e-government strategies and policies;

To promote transformative government and innovation in public governance so as to achieve sustainable development by further promoting advocacy and knowledge transfer on good governance at the global, regional, national and local levels, through, inter alia, United Nations Public Service Day, the United Nations Public Service Awards and the United Nations Public Administration Network, by developing capacity-building tools and approaches, including self-assessment tools, and providing advisory services in the field, as appropriate;

To assist in the implementation of the Plan of Action adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society at its first phase, held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003,⁷ and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, adopted by the Summit at its second phase, held in Tunis from 16 to 18 November 2005,⁸ on issues related to e-government, e-participation, mobile government, open government data, the use of information and communications technologies in parliaments and the Internet Governance Forum.

⁷See A/C.2/59/3, annex.

⁸See A/60/687.

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