His Excellency the Secretary-General of the Shura Council: Bahrain places its trust in youth to achieve national aspirations and contribute to the development process
His Excellency Counselor Osama Ahmed Al-Asfour, Secretary-General of the Shura Council, said that the Kingdom of Bahrain always places its confidence in young cadres who have consistently demonstrated their ability to manage various challenges and advance the wheel of innovation and development, stressing the importance of young people continuing their efforts to acquire administrative expertise, and integrating them with scientific and training expertise in order to improve national outcomes and initiatives, whether in the field of government work or the private sector, in a way that contributes to achieving the national aspirations expected of them and managing the development process in the Kingdom. This came during His Excellency’s meeting with members of the third batch of the “HIPO Youth” program for youth leaders via video communication technology, which is held between August 1 and September 8, 2021 AD, in cooperation between the Institute of Public Administration and the Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs, in addition to Injaz Bahrain, Gafcon, and the Bahrain Institute for Banking and Financial Studies. His Excellency the Secretary-General of the Shura Council added that the national responsibility of ensuring the highest level of performance is borne by all officials and leaders in the government and private sectors, indicating that this responsibility requires them to transfer their administrative expertise and the successful performance practices in which they work to young people, with the need to ensure their qualification so that they can advance national outcomes and develop the wheel of development without neglecting to employ innovation and creativity to keep pace. National aspirations and visions. For his part, His Excellency Dr. Raed Mohammed bin Shams, Director General of the Institute of Public Administration (BIPA), confirmed that the “HIPO Youth” program has today become a house of administrative expertise, through which the Institute and its partners aim to qualify young national cadres and develop their skills in order to take the reins of the administrative work system in accordance with best practices, administrative expertise and scientific methodologies, noting that the program contributes to creating a conscious generation capable of developing and implementing forward-looking administrative strategies that keep pace with the development aspirations of the Kingdom. Bahrain. Dr. Bin Shams added that the Hypo program will not only develop and qualify young people with professional and academic expertise, but will also make them experience the experience of creating actual youth initiatives that serve the youth sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain, through a group of projects that will be asked of them and that require them to employ the expertise and experiences they have acquired, and the mechanisms of innovation and creativity to come up with national outputs that keep pace with national ambitions and aspirations. The projects will also be adopted if they meet the necessary requirements by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs.
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