Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management

The Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) is a membership organisation dedicated to strengthening public management and consolidating democracy and good governance throughout the Commonwealth. It achieves this by building networks across the Commonwealth, through which it exchanges experiences on new developments, innovations and the reform of public administration.

CAPAM is a membership organisation dedicated to strengthening public management and consolidating democracy and good governance throughout the Commonwealth. It achieves this by building networks across the Commonwealth, through which it exchanges experiences on new developments, innovations and the reform of public administration.

Foundation: 1994

Activities

Conferences and seminars designed to promote networking and to advance innovation in public management, including: the annual Senior Public Executive Seminar; the annual Integrated Service Delivery Seminar; customised in-country executive seminars; and thematic regional seminars. The International Innovations Awards Programme (since 1997), with gold, silver and bronze winners, is announced at the biennial conferences. CAPAM has established a repository of materials on good practice in public administration housed online in the CAPAM E-library.

Publications

Commonwealth Innovations (quarterly); International Review of Administrative Science (quarterly); CAPAM Featured Reports (conferences).

General Enquiries

L’Esplanade Laurier, 300 Laurier Avenue West,
West Tower, Room A-1245, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6Z2, Canada

Tel: +1 613 996 5026
Fax: +1 613 947 9223
Email: capam@capam.org
www.capam.org