Governance and public administration
In the area of governance and public administration, the United Nations strengthens the capacity of Governments for developing countries and countries with economies in transition, at their request, for policy analysi and development, and socio-economic development management, including the infrastructure necessary for their institutional and human resources development, as well as for implementing relevant commitments agreed upon at major United Nations conferences.
Particular attention is given to strengthening governance systems and institutions, administrative restructuring, civil service reform, human resources development and public administration training, improving performance of the public sector, increasing public- and private-sector interaction, promoting management innovation, improving the management of development programmes, enhancing government legal capacity, and strengthening the regulatory framework, resource mobilization, revenue administration, financial management, and transparency and accountability through the provision of advisory services, technical assistance and human resources devlopment.
Advisors
Ms. Adriana Alberti
Governance and Public administration; Democratization and Institution Building; Globalization and the State; Judicial administration; South-South cooperation.
Ms. Atnafu Almaz
Public sector management, election administration, non-profit organisation management, human resources management, project design and co-ordination, operations management, programme and project monitoring and evaluation.
Ms. Elia Yi Armstrong
Public sector ethics; corruption and development; public service reform; policy coordination mechanisms; administrative policies.
Mr. Murtala Jimoh (Olajide) Balogun
Contemporary governance and public sector management theory; public service ethics and values (including the development and application of indicators for tracking ethical compliance and violations in the public domain); comparative civil service reform strategies (plus the development of performance indicators and "customer" service standards, as well as the design and implementation of citizen charters and related "customer-oriented" reform initiatives); personnel policies and practices in supra-national organisations (and in organisations faced with serious diversity, "inclusiveness", employee motivation, and underlying management challenges); decentralisation and local government reform in Sub-Saharan Africa; and, design, conduct, and evaluation of policy seminars and senior-level capacity building programmes.
Ms. Angela Capati Caruso
Public economics; economic decentralization; entrepreneurship and small enterprise development; project design, management and evaluation; fund-raising; organization of meetings.
Mr. Julio D'arcy
Economic development planning; sectoral and regional planning; public expenditure and investment policies and public investment programming; social and economic evaluation of multisectoral projects; monetary, public finance and balance of payments policies; banking regulations.
Mr. Idrissa Diagne
Macro- and micro-economic analysis, strategies and policies; structural adjustment policies and their social impact; public finance and fiscal policies, including social expenditure; international debt policies and management; investment programming and information systems for socio-economic management
Mr. Ulrich Graute
Policy analysis and advice, Leadership development, Programme and Project Management. Partners who are currently using advice by Ulrich Graute include the Committee of Experts in Public Administration of the UN Economic and Social Council (CEPA, ECOSOC), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the DESA Working Group on the Financial Crisis and the UN Centre for Regional Development in Nagoya, Japan.
Ms. Seema Hafeez
E-government, E-participation, governance, poverty and macroeconomic policy, and public economics; including government expenditures and financing.
Ms. Yolande Jemiai
Human resources management, civil service reform, programme and project design, management, monitoring and evaluation, social policy analysis, rehabilitation and emergency response.
Mr. Olympios Christou Katsiaouni
Capacity building for social and economic institutions relevant to the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, the National Human Development Reports, NHDRs, and to Poverty Reduction Policies. Technical support for the development of socio-economic instruments in support of MDGs, NHDRs and Long Term Strategic Vision. Direct support and coordination of economic management, including development plans, resource mobilization, aid management and coordination, and impact assessment and project evaluations. Organisation and coordination of workshops, seminars and other interactive forums dealing with socio-economic governance, pro-poor economic policies and monitoring of MDGs. Strengthening sub-national governance bodies and structures, including at district and community level, for civil society mobilisation, decentralised forms of governance and sustainable development.
Mr. John-Mary Kauzya
Governance capacity assessment and programme design, human resource management, training programmes design, delivery and evaluation, organisational auditing and restructuring, institutional development, Civil service reform, decentralisation, policy analysis and planning, general management and administration, strategic corporate planning.
Mr. Richard Kerby
Assist developing government in creating and implementing E-Government Policies and making those policies operational. Using E-Governance as a foundation for transparent and efficient government. Developing Public Policy for Information and Communication Technologies, Internet Policy and Development, Internet Governance. Assist governments in developing sound economic policies. The use of the private sector to support governments through Public-Private Partnerships, Micro-Financing, Small and Medium Enterprise, and implementing enabling private sector policies. The use South-South Collaboration in cross-fertilization of knowledge. Knowledge Management and building capacity using ICTs.
Mr. Jean Le Nay
Macroeconomics including short- and medium-term forecasting, national accounts and planning; industrial strategies and the public industrial sector; regional and local development
Mr. Garegin R. Manukyan
Decentralization reform, professionalism in the public sector, human resources development of civil servants, technical co-operation projects
Mr. Alphonse Mekolo
Good governance and civil service reform; decentralisation and institutional analysis; management and evaluation of development projects and programmes; strategic management policy and programme formulation; training for top leaders; institutional capacity building and human resource development; evaluation of country cooperation programmes
Mr. Daniel Olden
Development economics and planning, particularly regional economics and planning; planning and management of international development assistance
Ms. Elida Reci
Pro-poor public finance; strategy preparation/review/implementation, aid Coordination; economic policy and legislation; enterprise development, FDI and regulatory governance; institutional capacity building; international economic relations - multinational, regional and bilateral agreements.
Ms. Gay A. Rosenblum-Kumar
National conflict management capacity development; democratization; governance institutional development in developing and transitional countries; and peace-building in post-conflict reconstruction.
Mr. Sekou Soumahoro
Macro-economic policy and development strategy; national capacities for strategic planning and economic management; resource mobilization and aid coordination; environmental management plans
Ms. Esther Stern
Audit and control, fraud detection, performance monitoring, financial management and evaluation; promotion of economy, efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditure; people management and public administration; assessment of country financial accountability, international organizations and of technical assistance programmes/projects
Mr. José Manuel Sucre Ciffoni
Governance capacity assessment; human resources management; training programmes design, delivery and evaluation; facilitating participative diagnosis, analysis, and planning workshops; institutional development and participatory governance; judiciary and civil service reform; decentralization; post conflict reconstruction and reforms of the public service.
Mr. Alexei Tikhomirov
Socio-economic policy and macroeconomic management during transition to market-oriented structures; economic adjustment and reform; multisectoral planning and management; development programmes and institutions
Mr. Yoshinobu Yonekawa
Socio-economic development and development policy, particularly in Asia and the Pacific; programme and project formulation; intersectoral development; linkages among social development, development policies, public administration, and aid coordination