Raised awareness of the importance of methodologies and approaches to strengthen effective governance and public institutions in the Arab region. Strengthening the capacity of schools of public administration who are the main actors in the training and who can build the capacity of civil servants for undertaking tasks of policy formulation and implementation is essential to improve the quality and effectiveness of public policy management, implementation, and evaluation in countries across the regionز

The Curriculum, which is a holistic and integrated framework, translates the 11 Principles of Effective Governance into practice through capacity development training material on governance and public institutions. It aims to promote critical understanding of sustainable development issues, enhance governance capacity, and strengthen public servants' awareness of their active role in contributing to the achievement of the SDGs. The Curriculum is a comprehensive set of Training of Trainers Capacity Development Toolkits, which contain ready-to-use and customizable training material on key governance dimensions needed to advance the implementation of the SDGs. The Curriculum provides methodologies and approaches to advance knowledge and assist governments in developing capacities at the individual, organizational, and institutional levels to drive the transformational change to implement the 2030 Agenda. This curriculum will be developed further, adapted and tailored to the specific contexts and needs of the countries of the Arab region, in particular in the context of crisis, conflict, and fragile institutional settings.

Detailed presentations were made of the elements of each tool kit and training programme as follows:

• Toolkit on Changing Mindsets in Public Institutions to Implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• Toolkit on Transparency, Accountability and Ethics in Public Institutions
• Toolkit on Strengthening Institutional Arrangements and Governance Capacities for Policy Coherence
• Toolkit on Effective National to Local Public Governance for SDG Implementation
• Toolkit on Government Innovation for Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups
• Toolkit on Risk-informed Governance and Innovative Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience
• Toolkit on Innovation and Digital Government for Public Service Delivery

• The importance of a Common Arab Regional Job Competencies Framework for Senior Public Servants, and its specific relevance for the Arab Countries?
• Highlighted Job Competencies and the complexity of the implementation of the SDGs;
• Description of the pillars of the competency framework: the concept of governance and principles of public administration, Sustainable leadership and the public service value system;
• Presentation of the key competencies to implement the SDGs

Participants from the participating Arab countries were afforded the opportunity to comment, ask questions and focus on the specific elements from the curriculum which fit their needs. Panelists addressed the questions and provided answers and further explanations to queries made by the participants from the Arab countriesز

Summary of the key elements of the discussions, and way forward. It was noted that the curriculum will be developed further, adapted and tailored to the specific contexts and needs of the countries of the Arab region, in particular in the context of crisis, conflict, and fragile institutional settings. Participating countries to consult internally and express to ESCWA their specific needs and preferences in terms of capacity building training on specific toolkits. In the next phase, ESCWA will develop and adapt the curriculum to the Arab region specific needs and launch the capacity-building training program.