On 18 March 2020, the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) has submitted key messages and selected recommendations to the 2020 thematic review of the high-level political forum on sustainable development. The contribution, ‘Promoting effective governance and institutional reform to accelerate the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals  for accelerating progress and moving on transformative pathways for realizing the decade of action’, coordinated by CEPA member Louis Meuleman, can be downloaded from the HLPF 2020 website.