As a part of KOICA’s Capacity Building
Improvement and Advancement for Tomorrow (CIAT) Program, the Korea Institute
for Development Strategy(KDS) has successfully run the 2nd Year
Training Program titled ‘2018 Development Cooperation Capacity Building
(Ghana)- Policy Building Course’ in Korea from May 10th to 19th,
2018.
For the second-year training course, 12
high-level officials from Ghanaian government including Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Ministry of Trade and Commerce and Ministry of Foods and Agriculture
were invited to Korea. The course was aimed to support Ghana in achieving the
goals of the Coordinated Programme of Economic and Social Development Policies
(CPESDP, 2017-2024) through the sharing of Korea’s development experience and
to encourage Ghana’s high-level officials to promote policy initiatives for
inclusive and sustainable development.
The program consists of a series of
lectures on Korea’s experience on developing diverse sectors; site visits to
government and public institutions; workshops on policy formulation directions;
and extracurricular activities. Lecture subjects include; policy building and
implementation in stages of economic development in Korea, performance
management for productivity improvement in public sector, agricultural
modernization in Korea, etc.
Participants also visited Audit and
Inspection Research Institute, Korea Rural Community Corporation, Korea
Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training and other public
institutions, given opportunities to understand the roles and functions of each
institution and its achievements through trial and error for Korea’s economic
development.
On the basis of the lessons from lectures
and study visits, Ghanaian delegates have discussed the current issues and challenges
of relevant sectors in Ghana and presented their strategies and policy
initiatives for the development of Industry, agriculture, and vocational
education and training in Ghana during the two sessions of the ‘Policy
Formulation and Direction Workshop’. Dr. Chun, the President of KDS, and Prof.
Park, the Vice President of KDS, Dr. Oh, the former President of Korea Rural
Economic Institute, and Prof. Uh of the Korea University of Technology and
Education have provided essential and realistic policy advice and feedback
during the workshops.
**This was the last year of the multi-year
training program on Development Cooperation Capacity Building (’17-’18)-Policy
Building Course. KDS expects this program contributes to strengthening not only
the capacity of Ghanaian high-level officials in policy formulation and
implementation but also the bilateral cooperation between Korea and Ghana.
