Public Services Dept To Host EROPA Seminar
By Azlan Othman

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Public Services Department (JPA) will play host to an international Eastern Regional Organisation for Public Administration (EROPA) seminar next week.

Awg Hj Rosli bin Pehin Dato Hj Mohd Salleh, Secretary to the event's organising committee said the seminar would promote information sharing on good practices and conduct in public administration and management within the region, develop an appreciation of the value and importance of effective and efficient public administration as well as develop and promote the study of public administration.

It would also foster cooperation, communication and understanding among organisations and individuals having an interest in public administration and develop leadership qualities and management expertise, he added.

His Royal Highness Prince Hj Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister's Office, is expected to officiate the opening ceremony on November 14 at the International Convention Centre.

The seminar will be preceded by the 52' Executive Council Meeting on November 13. This year's theme reads ` Modemising the Civil Service in Alignment with the National Development Goals".

The theme was chosen to align with the Prime Minister's Office strategic themes to "Modernise the Civil Service". This is in light of the changing organisational environment that realised the weaknesses of traditional public bureaucracies, the needs for liberalisation for public sector management, the pressure to provide good public governance and the rapid development of e-Government to facilitate the achievement of good public governance, said Awg Hj Rosli.

The sub-themes to-be tackled in the workshops are "performance management and governance", "enhancing integrity in the public service", "building partnership for public service delivery", "e-governance and capacity-building towards a modernised civil service".

The Eastern Regional Organisation for Public Administration (EROPA) is an organisation of states, groups and individuals in the general Asia Pacific area. The organisation came into being in 1960 in response to a common desire among developing countries to promote regional cooperation in improving knowledge systems and practices of government administration to help accelerate economic and social development.

Key players of public administration are expected to be present at the seminar to discuss capacity-building issues of civil service and will provide a platform to address the civil service reform issues related to socio-economic governance and management of public enterprises in the implementation of national development goals.

The seminar will be conducted in five plenary sessions in accordance to the subthemes chosen. Concurrent sessions will be held after the plenary sessions.

Meanwhile some 300 local participants from several ministries, departments and institutions and individuals are expected to attend the seminar.

Registration is still open for all who wish to participate regardless of whether they are in the government or private sector or individuals.

Forms can be obtained from the Secretariat at the Public Service Department or can be downloaded from their website www.jpa.gov.bn. Registration fee for local participants is B$250. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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