Baku, November 5, AZERTAC
The UN Governance Innovation Summit: Advancing Future-Ready Institutions, co-organized by the State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of Azerbaijan and the United Nations, featured a panel session entitled “Regional Solutions for Resilient, Adaptive and Anticipatory Institutions.”
The session brought together experts and leaders of regional institutions and networks to share governance innovations that have demonstrated results across the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Caribbean, Central Asia, and Europe; discuss lessons learned from their implementation; and explore opportunities to adapt and scale successful approaches across countries and regions.
The discussion explored how innovations can accelerate governance transformation through more resilient, adaptive, anticipatory, and citizen-centered institutions.
Moderated by Cristina Rodriguez-Acosta, Governance and Public Administration Officer at the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the panel featured Dr. John-Mary Kauzya, Extraordinary Professor at the School of Public Leadership of South Africa’s Stellenbosch University; Dr. Armando Guio Español, Research Affiliate at Harvard Law School, Harvard University; Dr. Richard Stirling, Co-founder and CEO of the UK-based consultancy Oxford Insights; and Devon Rowe, Executive Director of the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD).