ADB to Help Train 300 Gov't Officials in 2009
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) kicked off the 2009 Executive Public Policy Training Program on March 23, targeting to enroll more than 300 senior and mid-level government officials this year.
The training program, with funding from the Japanese government, aims to improve knowledge and skills for Vietnamese officials so that they can better analyze and formulate policy reforms as well as more effectively implement new policies being adopted by the country.
Addressing the launching, Ayumi Konishi, ADB country director, said that in order to respond to new challenges as Vietnam is becoming a middle-income country, Vietnamese government officials need to be well equipped.
The training program is within a framework of the Asian Development Bank’s Regional Technical Assistance for Public Policy Training Program, costing US$18 million in the 2007-2010 period, for three Indochinese nations of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
The program was initiated in Vietnam in 2007 and extended to Cambodia and Laos in 2009.
In the 2007-2008 period, the program provided training for 450 Vietnamese officials. It is expected that by the end of 2010, some 1,100 Vietnamese government civil servants will have benefited from the training program. (Investment, VietnamNet)
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