Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra working with the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
On the official visit to Japan paid by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the high ranking delegation of Viet Nam, on November 24, 2021, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra had a working session with the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo.
Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra speaking at the working session
At the meeting, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra stated that GRIPS has maintained a very good cooperation in training with Viet Nam over the past years. From 2014 to 2019, on average, Viet Nam sent two groups of public officials per year to GRIPS to study under the framework of the Project 165 of the Central Committee for Organization. The total number of public officials trained under the Project 165 is about 100 people. However, during the past two years, the Covid-19 epidemic has temporarily disrupted the activity of sending Vietnamese officials to GRIPS. Therefore, the Minister expected that the two sides would co-review this activity of the Project 165 to renew the training in the near future.
Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra also said that through the project funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) Viet Nam has sent 45 lecturers to GRIPS for research, study, and improvement of teaching methods and skills. In addition, 50 officials from MOHA agencies as well as NAPA came to Japan and particularly to GRIPS to study. She expressed the expectation that, in addition to the Project 165, GRIPS would continue to support NAPA in strengthening teaching capacity to better train a contingent of Vietnamese officials and sharing experience in the public administration reform and public policy making to serve Viet Nam’s development in the new period.
Working session
The two sides agreed to strengthen the training for Vietnamese leaders at strategic level under the Project 165 after the Covid-19 epidemic is better controlled. Besides, a new program for training of trainers for NAPA will be launched and there will be a signing ceremony of the agreements reached by both sides to deploy training programs in the near future.Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Akihiko Tanaka, GRIPS President expressed his pleasure to hear that Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra highly appreciated the training of Vietnamese officials at all levels from grassroots to local and to central under the Project 165 over the past years.
On the same day, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra had a meeting with the leaders of Hiroshima University. MOHA Minister and the President of Hiroshima University agreed on a number of issues related to cooperation in master degree training for future young leaders of Viet Nam, in use of digital technology in public administration, in joint master degree training with NAPA. The two sides expected to sign a memorandum of understanding on the mentioned issues this year.
