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Address at the Conferment of
Degrees to the Senior and Middle-level Training Officials of the Royal School of
Administration 2008 and the Official Opening of Continuous Training for 2009
Royal School of Administration, 17 June 2009
Your Venerable Monks,
H.E Jean-Francois Desmazierés,
Ambassador of the Republic of France to
the Kingdom of Cambodia,
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Distinguished Guests,
Dear all the Faculty Members and
Graduates!
Today I am most honored and pleased to participate in the
ceremony of presenting diplomas to 214 senior and middle officials trainees in
2008 and the official opening of the continuing education for 2009 at the Royal
School of Administration. The solemn ceremony this morning recalls a great deal
of memories we have jointly built, especially the capacity building for our
civil servants, which is always in my mindset.
Along with that, I would like to highly evaluate and honestly
appreciate the masterworks and various achievements, which have been made by the
Royal School of Administration in a cause to participate in the social
development as well as responding to the human resource development in Cambodia
as stated in the Rectangular Strategy-Phase II of the Royal Government
for Growth, Employment, Equity and Efficiency. The fruits obtained from
here have become seeds, spreading all over the society.
On behalf of the Royal Government, my wife and I would like to
express congratulations and appreciations for the efforts made by all students
and trainees of the Royal School of Administration as well as highly evaluating
the training provided by faculty members and professors of the Royal School of
Administration, who have fruitfully and noticeably achieved the results. The
joint efforts with patient spirit and high attention have actively participated
and properly and timely responded to the policies of the Royal Government in
integrating Cambodia into the regional and global grouping, which require the
people to be more competent, highly knowledgeable for receiving the supreme
competition in the labor market and improving the economic efficiency for
national sustainable development. The fruitful results we have achieved today is
also another witness reflecting the efforts made by the Royal Government in
building human resources, which is one of the prioritized areas in implementing
the Rectangular Strategy-Phase II of the Royal Government.
At the same time, today achievement will also contribute to the
socio-economic development, poverty reduction and improvement of people’s
livelihoods, which is the main aim of the Royal Government through strengthening
the efficiency of public administration to be creative, responsible as well as
behaving gentle personality.
On behalf of the Royal Government, I would like to particularly
thank the Government and people of France through H.E Jean-Francois Desmazierés, the Ambassador of France to the Kingdom of Cambodia, who have pricelessly
contributed to fund a project on solidarity, priority to sustain the
modernization of the public function, especially the modernization of the Royal
School of Administration since the first start and I hope that this good
cooperation will still be pursued. Moreover, I would like to thank and welcome
the cooperation of the GTZ and UNDP and other training
institutions in the region and world, which have cooperated with the Royal
School of Administration in swapping experiences and training programs with an
objective to further strengthen the quality of civil servants training and
research on public administration.
All graduates who about to receive the diplomas shortly, will get
engaged in the public services soon; and you must maintain your personal efforts
by trying the utmost to show off your talents and patience especially define and
abide by personal disciplines in order to achieve success in all duties
provided.
Moreover, I hope
all of you will use your knowledge in a sensible manner to bring about benefits
to our country. Also, you must keep in mind that the reception of certificates
does not imply that you have finished your study, but you must continue to
conduct research and improve your knowledge on regular basis to enhance both
your competency and knowledge.
As you have been
aware, the world is entering the era of knowledge and IT where human resource
with competency, talent, innovation and vibrancy is deemed essential for
achieving growth and poverty reduction. Prioritizing human resource development
is an effective way to improve human characters, promote sustainable
development, and ensure equitable distribution of growth.
In this spirit,
the Royal Government is fully aware of the role of IT and communication in
enhancing efficiency of the public services and national development as
stipulated in the Royal Government’s policy for IT and communication
development. IT and communication development indeed will enable Cambodia to
realize its vision of “E-Administration” and “E-Government”, especially the vision of “Opened-Administration” which supply
information on the basis of people’s demand. I think, based on IT, we can
enhance the efficiency of public services with good governance and
accountability and improve people’s awareness on the structure and management in
public institutions. This will indeed enhance the approach how people can
participate in decision-making. This vision will move public services closer to
the people and serve them better.
Along with this,
efficient administration is essential for bettering the quality of public
services and poverty reduction, and can act as a mechanism for institutional
capacity building which will change the public servants’ behaviour and attitude.
People’s welfares and national development depend on many factors, and efficient
public administration is one of them. I think public servants who are motivated
to fulfil their duties with determination and honesty, and transform themselves
from managers to respected servants to address people’s needs with efficiency,
moral standard, accountability, transparency, and effectiveness is the
pre-requisite to strengthening public administration to achieve the vision of “Serving the People Better”.
In this spirit,
the Royal Government has continued to strengthen good governance at all levels
of governmental institutions to ensure that the provision of public services are
conducted in a transparent, efficient and responsible manner in order to promote
state of law and social justice and ethics through broadened and deepened
reforms, including judicial reform, anti-corruption, public administration
reform, decentralization and de-concentration, armed force reform, economic and
financial reform, land reform, natural resource management reform, and so forth.
Along with this,
the Royal Government has been implementing its administration reform which
concentrates on enhancing public services, raising public servants’ salary,
capacity building and the use of IT. Moreover, the Royal Government has
disseminated the strategic directives of public administration reform and work
plan 2009-2013 which aim at bettering public services in response to people’s
needs.
Over the last 5
years, we have implemented numerous public administration reform programs,
including public servant census to create an electronic database for managing
human resource, introduction of electronic new payroll system for public
servants, rationalization of public service, legislation and legal document for
managing public servants, introduction of 1st and 2nd work
plan for good governance which cover 9 priority sectors, the introduction of
public services and implementation of Priority Mission Group, the implementation
of merit-base payment system, and so forth. From the implementation of its
Strategic Framework for Deconcentration and Decentralization which was adopted
in 2005, the Royal Government has established a national committee for
democratic development at sub-national levels and held successfully the local
election for provincial, municipal and district councils on May 17, 2009. The victorious result of the last election, a new
achievement, reflects Government’s will in strengthening democracy at
sub-national level aiming at ensuring sustainable economic growth with
comprehensive foundation, more competitive capacity, improving management
capacity and quality service delivery aiming to meet various local needs and
upgrade people health.
Indeed,
the implementation of decentralization and de-concentration policy and organic
laws has contributed to strengthening gender equality and promoting youth role
of both sexes, particularly women in decision making at the sub-national level.
In this
spirit, I would like to support the initiative of the Royal School of
Administration in cooperation with the Ministry of interior under the support of
Franco cooperation project and technical assistant cooperation from Germany to
conduct presentation on “Theoretical and practical implementation of
Cambodia’s decentralization and de-concentration” to all government
officials at all level to deeply understand and effectively applied. Taking the
opportunity, I would like to request to all development partners to cooperate
with the Royal School of Administration in improving the training with more
comprehensive climate aiming at meeting the Government’s need in the area.
Once
again, on behalf of the royal government, I would like to praise and
congratulate to 214 graduates, who successfully finished the course and will
obtain up-coming certificate, board of directors, officials, teachers and
employees in the Royal School of Administration, who exert theirs most efforts
in achieving intellectual resource development mission for our nation. We must
bear in mind that quality and effective task with good effort of board of
directors, employees and teachers of the Royal School of Administration will
bring the quality and efficiency of public service delivery application in
Cambodia.
Finally,
along with the Conferment of Degrees to the Senior
and Middle-level Training Officials of the Royal School of Administration 2008
and the Official Opening of Continuous Training for 2009,
me and my wife wish Your Venerable Monks, ladies and gentlemen, board of
directors, employees and teachers of the Royal School of Administration, all
graduates and new trainers with 4 Gems of Buddhist Blessings.
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