President of the National Academy of Public Administration Nguyen Ba Chien, Vice President of the EROPA Executive Council (Photo: quanlynhanuoc.vn)
The event, hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration, drew theparticipation of more than 300 international delegates, and 200 scholars, managers,and leaders from Vietnamese agencies and sectors.
They will deliberate on three topics, namely Socio-economic Recovery andDevelopment: Issues Raised and the Need for Renewal of Public Governance,Renewal of Public Governance to Promote Socio-economic Recovery andDevelopment, and Building Public Governance Capacity to Promote Socio-economicRecovery and Development.
Domesticand foreign scholars and scientists have registered to present some 170 papersat the event.
Public governance has been seen as a decisive factor for countries’ success,especially in the context that the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the strengthsand weaknesses of countries’ policies and mechanisms as well as theirleadership. Besides, the pandemic proved the close relations betweennational governance capacity and crisis management ability as well assustainable and prosperous development of each country.
A good public governance helps improve residents’ confidence in the Government,facilitating the Government’s operation. As thepandemic was put under control, countries should work to build and implementsocio-economic recovery and development in a fast and sustainable fashion so asto catch up with the world’s economic recovery pace.
The conference is expected to serve as a venue for EROPA member countries,including China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, the Republic of Korea,Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, to develop cooperation plans toimprove public governance capacity of senior public servants so as to meet thesocio-economic recovery requirements.
The EROPA, an internationalorganisation of states, groups and individuals in the region of Asia and thePacific, was founded in 1960 as a response to the common desire amongdeveloping and developed countries to promote regional cooperation in improvingknowledge, systems and practices of government administration to helpaccelerate economic and social development.
It was the first organisation in the region to be devoted to the development ofpublic administration in order to advance the economic and social developmentof countries in Asia and the Pacific.
The EROPA consists of ten state members in the region, 58 institutions andgroups in the area such as institutes or schools of public administration,universities, agencies and municipal corporations, and 229 individuals whoseachievements in the field of governance and public administration are recognised.
The National Academy of Public Administration became a state member of EROPA in1991./.
VNA
