The Korea Institute for Development Strategy (KDS) hosted a New Year’s Gathering and Knowledge Sharing Meeting of the Masterplan Report of the KOICA Project for Capacity Building of the Kurdistan Institute of Public Administration(KIPA), KRG Iraq on Jan. 20, 2015 at Renaissance Hotel, Seoul.
The gathering was attended by Mr. Ju Seong-Jae (Assistant Manager of KOICA), Project Manager Park Kyung-bae (Executive Director of KDS), Prof. Ha Mi-seung of Konkuk Univ., Director of masterplan team, and other eighteen experts involved in the Project.
PM Park Kyung-bae addressed the gathering underlining that “The Project aims to build government officials who serve as the professional vanguard the KRG needs to achieve the Vision 2020.”
As a part of KRG’s efforts to build competent and highly qualified public officials, the KRG proposed that the Korea International Cooperation Agency(KOICA) offer a Project for capacity building of KIPA.
Through the Project, the KRG aims at emulating Korea’s national development experience over the past 66 years or so since the establishment of Korean government in 1948 by successful training of highly dedicated and committed government officials to national development.
In response to KRG’s proposal, the KOICA launched “The Project for Capacity Building of the KIPA.” KOICA chose and designated KDS in consortium with Konkuk Univ. as the PMC in December 2013. Since embarking on the Project in early 2014, KDS and Konkuk Univ. have provided research and consulting services.
The “Vision 2020” calls for dedication and leading roles KRG public officials take on. Such responsibilities and roles should be played by competent, creative and innovative officials. Therefore, building effective systems and institutions for training competent public officials is the most important preconditions to fulfilling “Vision 2020” of KRG.
KIPA Masterplan is pre-requisite to establishing HRD systems and institutions for the development and enhancement of KRG public officials’ competency. A Masterplan is required to build a strong base of KRG HRD in a long-term and comprehensive perspective for the future of KRG, rather than a short-term and piecemeal one.
The masterplan team has formulated and drawn up HRD vision, goals and strategies on the basis of environmental analysis such as job analysis, workforce analysis, and training need analysis. In addition, the team proposed an effective training system and a long-term training plan for KRG and KIPA, based on competency diagnosis and a new competency model.
On the heels of the plenary presentation on the report of Masterplan, the experts in attendance had a lengthy and in-depth discussions in three groups in an attempt to link comprehensively all tasks of the project one another. This meeting helped the respective project teams enable to establish an entirely consistent KIPA HRD system by maintaining synergetic relationships among tasks such as re-engineering of organization, capacity building of HRD officials and KIPA trainers, and development of programs and training skills.
