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His Excellency Dr. Raed Mohammed bin Shams, Director General of the Institute of Public Administration (BIPA), emphasized that investing in scientific research and best practices, especially in the field of public administration, is an essential pillar for improving the government operations, by linking government policymaking to systematic scientific foundations, and it is also the best way to overcome the difficulties and challenges faced by both the public and private sectors. By finding scientific solutions based on evidence and evidence, pointing to the importance of the integration process and the concerted local, regional and international efforts between research institutions and government agencies, in addition to partnership between different sectors to develop and support scientific research. This came during the institute’s participation in the International Institute for Administrative Sciences (IIAS) conference, which was held recently in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. Bin Shams added that the best practices session presented by the Institute, entitled “Administrative Flexibility between Challenges and Opportunities,” was announced by the IIAS at the conclusion of the conference as the best session in terms of its comprehensive scientific content, and its reliance on 11 scientifically peer-reviewed papers with geographical and demographic diversity, in addition to linking the subject of the study, which is administrative flexibility, to achieving sustainable development goals in the Middle East and North Africa region, adding that it also came out with a number of recommendations, the most prominent of which was the necessity of establishing an international center to measure administrative flexibility through the MENAPAR network or IIAS, and the importance of measuring administrative flexibility in the government operations in the region through rigorous scientific tools and linking it directly to achieving sustainable development goals. Bin Shams pointed out that giving the Institute the opportunity to design and present the first session on best management practices at the International Institute for Administrative Sciences (IIAS) conference is evidence of the position that the Kingdom of Bahrain has reached in the field of administrative sciences, and the pioneering developmental role that has gone beyond the local scope to reach the regional and global levels in order to advance government work in the region, praising the pioneering role of the Learning and Development Department, represented by Ishaq Al-Kooheji, Executive Director of the Learning and Development Department, who designed and chaired the session, and Faisal Al-Khayyat and Dana Al-Buaraki, who also contributed. In the design process and assist in running the session.