The Guidance Tool-kit on “Reconstructing Public Administration after Conflict” was initiated by Haiyan Qian, former Director of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) and then developed under the overall responsibility of Juwang Zhu Director of DPADM of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

 

The Tool-kit was developed by John-Mary Kauzya, Chief of DPADM’s Public Administration Capacity Branch (PACB); Alphonse Mekolo, Inter-regional Adviser in the area of post-conflict public administration reconstruction, and Adriana Alberti, Governance and Public Administration Officer in DPADM. The development of its online platform was designed and supervised by Alphonse Mekolo with technical expertise of Michelle Alvès de Lima and Xiao Wang, Programme Assistants in DPADM.

 

We would like to express our gratitude to the members of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration for their constructive advice on developing this Tool-kit, including, Mikhail Dmitriev, Bin Hao, Nashash Hyam, Fransisco Longo Martinez, Philip L. K Yeo, Odette Ramsingh, Maragaret Saner, Valeria Termini, Gwendoline Williams, Susan L. Woodward and Najat Zarrouk. We would also like to thank the professionals in DPADM who have offered their views and comments on the first draft of the Tool-kit’s outline. A number of individuals have provided useful substantive inputs into this publication, including Ignacio Armillas, Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, United States. We would also like to express our appreciation to Varfin Donzo, Charlotta Falenius, Ariela Papajani, Nigera Reaves, Yuka Tearda, Jinghan Zeng, Obiamaka Palmer Gladys, Emma Anderson, Yesinia Bueno, Jade Manzano, Leila Kengueleoua, Venetta Benjamin, Na Hao, Rayan Izzeldin and Mario Aller San Millán who served as interns in UNDESA/DPADM, for their support in gathering relevant information to this Tool-kit and in making it more user-friendlly.