On March 2nd 2017, at the Highlands Campus, National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis (IGPA), University of Canberra (UC), Australia organized the training course “Policy design and public governance in the context of globalization and administration reform”. The main presenters at the training course were Professor Mark Evans, Director of Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Dr. John Paul Gagnon and Dr. Max Halupka.
Participated at the training course were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Quoc Cuong, member of the Party’s Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of Daklak Provincial Party, Dr. Nguyen Dang Que, CEO of NAPA Highlands Campus, Ms. Pham Thi Quynh Hoa, General Director of International Cooperation Department, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thai Thanh Ha, Deputy General Director of Department of Undergraduate Training Management and more than 40 participants from various provincial departments and local agencies in the Highlands region as well as NAPA staff and faculty in the Highlands Campus.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Quoc Cuong thanked NAPA and UC for organizing an important and useful training course in the Highlands region. He hoped that the training course will help public officials from the Highlands change in thinking and doing in policy research analysis and policy formulation and implementation.
At the training course, Professor Mark Evans showed the socio-economic trends in the context of global governance as well as the impact of these trends on public governance. Based on the provided inputs course participants exchanged ideas of consequence of the trends in public governance in Vietnam. Prof. Evans also showed how to design policy with consideration of public values and a focus on the citizen’s trust in government in the context of globalization; the required competency for public leaders in policy formulation and implementation in order to improve effectiveness of policies.
Giving a speech at the training course, Dr. Nguyen Dang Que appreciated the content of the training course and sharings by the presentors. He affirmed that the training course has contributed to the improvement of NAPA training course quality in the Highlands Campus.
On behalf of the local government, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran QuocCuong presented gifts, a specialty of the Highlands to the professors and hoped that the visit to the Highlands will leave a good memory to all of them.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Quoc Cuong, member of the Party’s Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of Daklak Provincial Party giving a speech at the training course
Dr. Nguyen Dang Que, CEO of NAPA Highlands Campus delivers a speech at the training course
Professor Mark Evans presents at the training course
