The Governance and Institutional Development Division (GIDD) works as a partner with all Commonwealth peoples, committed to providing excellent technical assistance for capacity-building and sustainable development in public institutions in particular, and in private-sector and civil society institutions with public responsibilities.
It is responsible for promoting the ‘new public administration’ ethos in the Commonwealth, with the aim of assisting member countries in their efforts to improve the performance of their public services as part of the structures of good governance. The long-term vision of GIDD is that every Commonwealth country will have an effective system of public administration providing the essential institutional infrastructure for an appropriately balanced system of democratic governance, economic competitiveness, social cohesion and environmental sustainability, which will be a symbol of Commonwealth membership.
Commonwealth Secretariat,
Marlborough House, Pall Mall,
London SW1Y 5HX, UK
Phone: +44 20 7747 6500
Fax: +44 20 7930 0827