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The Institute of Public Administration concluded the fifth symposium for institutes of public administration and administrative development in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, where the participants recommended the necessity of spreading the culture of performance management measurement among government institutions by focusing on implementing training programs for their officials and benefiting from the opinions and suggestions of customers and beneficiaries of the services provided in government institutions and including them in the goals and standards of institutional performance management, in addition to the necessity of benefiting from the national experiences applied in each GCC country to the performance management system in the government sector through the exchange of experts and specialists in performance management systems. In its closing session, the symposium - which was held on Sunday and Monday, April 1 and 2 - discussed the Sultanate of Oman’s working paper, which presented Oman’s digital experience as a proposed model and highlighted the impact of e-government on its use of information and communications technology through various dimensions such as the administrative, procedural and strategic dimension. Then the Institute of Administrative Development in the State of Qatar presented a working paper entitled “Future Challenges for Public Administration Institutions in Achieving Excellence and Developing Government Performance,” which contained concepts and definitions of excellence and developing government performance in Qatar and the role of government institutions in it. The current situation in Qatar and the most prominent future challenges for public administration and development institutions were also discussed. As for the service office Civil Affairs in the State of Kuwait touched on the most prominent modern systems and methods and the elements of their success in developing government performance, by reviewing the methods and methods of work in government agencies and demonstrating the impact of using modern administrative approaches in planning and managing performance and the benefits of continuous development of the performance and efficiency evaluation process. At the end of the symposium, working papers were discussed and recommendations were presented for follow-up implementation at the next meeting in Riyadh. Participants also praised the national experiences of member states in performance management and expressed their desire to actually benefit from them through study and application in a way that suits the needs and aspirations of each country.