- The Department (DARPG) is an institutional member of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (HAS) since 1998. IIAS with its headquarters at Brussels, Belgium, was established for the purpose of promoting the development of Administrative Sciences.
- The Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM), with its headquarters at Ottawa, Canada, is an organization dedicated to strengthening public management and consolidating democracy and good governance throughout the Commonwealth. It was formed in 1994 as a result of decisions taken at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Harare in 1991 and in Cyprus in 1993.
- The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India became an institutional member of CAPAM in
- Since 1998, CAPAM has been announcing its Biennial International Innovations Awards Programme to promote the spirit of innovation in the Public Service by recognizing those who have made significant contribution to improving governance and services to the public.
- The ‘Sugarcane Information System’ of India won the overall Gold medal of CAPAM International Innovation Award, 2012.
- The Prime Minister of India, the President of Brazil and the President of South Africa met in Brasilia (Brazil) on 13th September, 2006 for the 15th Summit meeting of the IBSA dialogue forum. Pursuant to the IBSA Summit decision, an IBSA Working Group on Public Administration (WGPA) has been set up by the three countries.
- DARPG signed a Project Document “Strengthening Public Administration and Governance” with UNDP on 3rd February, 2014 as part of Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP).
- The International Symposium under DARPG-UNDP Annual Work Plan 2014 was organized in Delhi from 7~8 October, 2014.
- In the fiscal year 2013-14, financial assistance of Rs.3 lakh each was provided for professional documentation of the following six initiatives of various state governments.
- Mobile Book Keeping (m-book-keeping) in Andhra Pradesh,
- Online Recruitment Processing System in Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission
- Good Governance Practices in Rajasthan Police
- SCORE-e-Registration in Bihar
- Bhoochetana in Karnataka
- Public Grievance Redressal System in Karnataka
- DARPG is engaged in producing documentary films on best practices across the country. These films are useful for the administrators and the dissemination of success stories would facilitate replication of the same elsewhere.
- DARPG has taken up an initiative to design and develop a web based repository of good governance initiatives and best practices. The GKC Portal can be accessed at gov.in
- The Digital Repository is envisaged as a tool to enable, capture, organize and store for easy retrieval of digital contents, various selected case studies of “Good Governance Practices” in India and abroad.
- In the 12th Five Year Plan scheme of the Department of ARPG, a new activity, namely ‘Research and Evaluation Studies’ was initiated in 2013-14.
- DARPG is bringing out a quarterly journal “Management in Government” since 1969 in order to provide forum for exchange of views and opinions among administrators, academicians, scholars and others interested in public administration and public sector management.
- A monthly newsletter ‘Civil Services News’ is being brought out since January, 1988 for serving and retired Government servants.
