All posts tagged "Diversity"
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Mission critical: building diverse teams to improve government outcomes
Truly diverse and inclusive government organisations are better placed to innovate, to identify risk, and to deliver improved services for citizens than those that aren’t. But there remain barriers to
- Posted June 25, 2023
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Today’s government digital leaders ask: where are tomorrow’s?
In the battle to attract digital professionals, governments find themselves outgunned on pay by the private sector. At the Global Government Digital Summit, digital leaders from 12 countries explored the
- Posted April 3, 2023
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International Women’s Day: listen to GGF’s women leaders podcast
To mark International Women’s Day, we bring you a special edition podcast in which two top civil servants discuss their experiences as women in government, their public service’s journey towards
- Posted March 7, 2023
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US publishes inaugural report on diversity in federal government
The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has published the first annual report on government-wide diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. The report includes workforce demographics, and highlights progress on strategic
- Posted February 23, 2023
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Pursuing gender parity in the public sector: women leaders’ views
At a webinar on how to achieve gender parity in civil and public services, leaders from Canada and South Africa shared their own experiences as women in government, their respective
- Posted February 6, 2023
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Select IT staff exempt from Canadian government return-to-office mandate; US revitalises agency internship programmes: workforce & management news in brief
Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canadian federal government exempts some IT workers from return-to-office rules The Canadian federal government
- Posted January 26, 2023
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Former government department chiefs blast ‘homogeneity of thought’ in UK civil service
Two former UK government department bosses have called for civil service reform but say its failures are systemically rooted and unlikely to change under the current educational, cultural and corporate
- Posted January 24, 2023
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Sage advice for civil servants: the best bits of Leading Questions Series 2
We take a look back at Global Government Forum’s 2022 podcasts, sharing snippets of wisdom that our guests have gleaned from decades of public service This year, Global Government Forum
- Posted December 28, 2022
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Women Leaders Index: how the Canadian public service achieved gender parity in its highest ranks
Canada is the only G20 country to have reached gender balance in public service leadership positions, a new report from Global Government Forum has found. Here, long-time public service leader
- Posted November 30, 2022
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Proportion of women civil service leaders improves internationally – but only one G20 country has achieved gender parity in top jobs
Less than one in three senior civil servants across the governments of G20 countries are women, new research from Global Government Forum has found. The latest Women Leaders Index found
- Posted November 23, 2022