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Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi Elected Vice President of
United Nations (UN) Committee of Experts, 2 April 2006 Geraldine Fraser
Moleketi, Minister for Public Service and Administration, was elected as Vice
President of the second Committee of Experts on Public Administration and Finance
(UN CEPA) this week in New York. The term of this Committee will last until 2009.
Fraser-Moleketi was also a member of the first Committee that served the UN during
the period 2002 - 2005. The committee has a particular mandate to discuss
and give guidance regarding directions in which public administration will have
to take if member states of the UN are to meet the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs). The relevance of the work of this committee for the ongoing reform processes
of the UN is increasingly being recognised. This week, during his opening address
to the Fifth meeting of the UN CEPA, the Under Secretary-General for the United
Nations Council for Economic and Social Affairs (ECOSOC), Mr Jos Ocampo, made
specific reference to this. Ensuring greater efficacy throughout the UN is likely
to be enhanced through achieving greater coherence across the various bodies that
make up the UN. Ocampo underscored the critical role of good governance
and of the rule of law - the domain of the Committee of Experts - in the pursuit
of (a) Global development co-operation towards the accomplishments of MDGs (b)
North-South co-operation and growing South-South co-operation.
In her contribution
on the panel that discussed the contribution that innovation in the public sector
could make to ensuring the realisation of the MDGs, Fraser-Moleketi stressed that
innovation in terms of governance and administration should not be seen as automatically
translating into sustainable development nor the extension of democracy. The
potential that innovations hold for realising these goals have to be actively
pursued. Care needs to be taken that prevailing inequities in access to information
and communication technology, for example, does not add to greater alienation
and exclusion of disadvantaged communities from the benefits innovations in these
areas are to bestow. Enquiries:
Clayson Monyela
Tel: (012)
336 1167
Cell: 082 806 7406
Email: Claysonm@dpsa.gov.za Issued
by: Department of Public Service and Administration
2 April 2006 | 
