All posts tagged "COVID-19 coronavirus"

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  WHO to recommend a global health board to oversee pandemic preparation and response

  A World Health Organisation commission is set to recommend the creation of a global health board to oversee the world’s preparation and responsiveness to future pandemics, according to a former

  • Posted June 14, 2021
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  There’s no going back: the future of hybrid working in civil services

  Research shows that many officials do not want to return to the office full-time after the pandemic. At a recent GGF webinar, experts from across the world discussed how governments

  • Posted June 10, 2021
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  Public trust in government isn’t only essential to service delivery – it restores the public sector too

  Opinion: Trust strengthens links with communities, and those bonds help to attract broader talent into public service, writes former New Zealand civil service chief Iain Rennie. After COVID-19, we must seize the

  • Posted June 2, 2021
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  OECD warns of uneven economic recovery from COVID-19, despite global growth

  Despite a brighter global economic outlook, the world risks an uneven exit from the COVID-19 pandemic unless vaccines are distributed equitably across the globe, the OECD has warned. On Monday

  • Posted June 1, 2021
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  Always a fresh crisis: building a resilient civil service

  Even in the depths of a major crisis, national governments must keep watching the horizon for the next looming threat. At the 2021 Global Government Summit, top officials from 13

  • Posted May 23, 2021
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  Cabinet Office leads a review into UK’s resilience

  A review of national resilience — designed to help the UK government learn lessons from its preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic — is underway, the chief operating officer of the

  • Posted May 19, 2021
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  Lessons learned: policy must focus on pandemic prevention, not just preparedness

  As the world looks to a future after COVID-19, experts are urging governments to concentrate on preventing viruses from spilling over into humans. But this takes cross-departmental co-ordination, bringing together

  • Posted May 18, 2021
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  Crystal clear: Sir Ian Diamond on using data to profile the pandemic

  The UK civil service has transformed its data operations during the pandemic, says Office for National Statistics chief Professor Sir Ian Diamond – web-scraping, integrating datasets, and building partnerships with

  • Posted May 11, 2021
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  UK officials keen to retain remote working, survey finds

  The vast majority of UK civil servants have adapted well to remote working and want to continue working flexibly after the pandemic, according to new research – though there are

  • Posted May 3, 2021
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  COVID elimination strategies saved economies as well as lives, say scientists

  Countries that focused on eliminating COVID-19 performed better on health, economic and civil liberties measures compared with those that opted to mitigate the virus, a group of leading scientists has

  • Posted April 29, 2021
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