On Wednesday 1 April 2009, the second RCPAR Advisory Board meeting took place in NVJ Athens Plaza hotel. Three new members from Croatia, Serbia and Kyrgyzstan have joined the Advisory Board, which now counts 15 members.

In the presence of Greek Ministers of Interior and Economy, Prokopios Pavlopoulos and Ioannis Papathanassiou, the UN Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States, Kori Udovicki and the UNDP Democratic Governance Practice Director of the Bureau for Development Policy, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, the April 2009 issue of the regional Development and Transition newsletter devoted to Reform of the State was launched in Athens, in the Bank of Greece, on 31 March 2009, between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm.

RCPAR Steering Committee meeting took place in Athens on 11 November 2008 in the morning. The main objectives of the meeting were to mutually reaffirm the expectations stemming from the partnership and the Project, and to highlight the principles the partnership is based upon. The first Advisory Board meeting took place in Athens on 11 and 12 November 2008. The meeting started with an introduction of the current members of the Board to the Steering Committee. A presentation of the historical background of the RCPAR, as well as the current 5 year Project, followed. The strategic orientation of the Centre was also discussed, as well as the roles and procedures of the Advisory Board in the RCPAR framework.

The UNDP Regional Centre for Public Administration Reform (RCPAR) in cooperation with the Hellenic Institute of Administrative Sciences (HIAS), and the national section of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) organised a two-day International Forum on Transparency in Administrative Processes in Thessaloniki, Greece on June 13 and 14, 2008. The Forum was supported by the Ministry of the Interior of the Hellenic Republic. Around 35 senior public servants, academics and representatives of leading civil society organisations, including Transparency International, from countries in the region of South-East Europe participated in the Forum.

In order to introduce the new partnership, an Inaugural Meeting of Regional Networks of Public Administration Reform Practitioners and Experts was organised in Alexandroupolis, Greece on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 November 2006. The meeting brought together more than 60 participants, public administration practitioners and experts from Europe and the CIS, other external experts, representatives of international organizations and of the host Government, and UNDP staff.

The Hellenic Institute of Administrative Sciences (HIAS), the national section of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) hosted around 40 participants from 13 countries in a two day workshop on e-government applications in the service of citizens in Thessaloniki on 31 March and 1 April. The workshop, which was attended by senior staff of the UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre (BRC), brought together senior civil servants engaged in public administration modernization, in the area of e-government applications, as well as other practitioners and academics from the countries in South-Eastern Europe.