Capacity Development Tools

This Handbook offers background, specifications and practical examples for the improvement and/or establishment of civil registration, vital statistics and identity management systems. It presents model organizational and legal arrangements, as well as ideal descriptions, processes and protocols that are considered the gold standard. Although some national examples are offered, this text is not a technical report describing country practices, but a model to strive to. It aims to encourage countries to undertake long-term self-sustaining programmes of strengthening the management and…

The UNPAN Online Training Centre delivers courses on various topics in public administration. The main objective of the UNPAN Training Centre is to increase the opportunities for government officials from all over the world to access training materials on e-government. They are provided free of charge.

• This online training course contributes to Strategic intelligence and networking; it elaborates on the inter-relationships between knowledge management, business intelligence, and competitive intelligence (in the context of social networking); it also elaborates on social/organizational network analysis and how it can be used to map knowledge flows and knowledge gaps in organizations.

This course aims to enhance the capacity of civil servants in Africa. It aims to: 1) Understand the overall role of HRM for Africa’s development. 2) Identify current challenges and opportunities for HRM in Africa's public sector 3) Understand concepts and tools for the strategic management of human resources.

Currently 25 issues briefs on various aspects of youth development provide information on key challenges and situations facing youth globally, provding an overview of the situation of youth in specific contexts as well as UN work in the area.

This study applies an economic-wide framework to analyze the impact of the crisis on MDG achievement in six Latin American countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua).

The manuals aim at establishing a reliable monitoring and analysis system to alert policy makers about vulnerabilities that could hurt countries under changing global economic conditions. IMAS tries to address three challenges: To bring existing information together into an effective monitoring framework that allows for real-time assessments of the economic and social impacts of changing conditions in the world economy; To analyze risks related to different types of shocks, their transmissions, and likely effects on developing countries and various population groups To inform policy makers…

The manuals aim at establishing a reliable monitoring and analysis system to alert policy makers about vulnerabilities that could hurt countries under changing global economic conditions. IMAS tries to address three challenges: To bring existing information together into an effective monitoring framework that allows for real-time assessments of the economic and social impacts of changing conditions in the world economy; To analyze risks related to different types of shocks, their transmissions, and likely effects on developing countries and various population groups To inform policy makers…

The Global Policy Model (GPM) is a tool for investigation of policy scenarios for the world economy . The model allows users to specify alternative assumptions about the future economic context and policy responses in different groups of countries and trace macro-economic outcomes over short, medium and long-term timescales.