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Under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Minister of Finance, the Institute of Public Administration launched the Public Finance Program on Thursday, May 24, 2012, in the presence of a number of Undersecretaries, Assistant Undersecretaries, and senior officials in the financial sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This program comes in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance and in partnership with the College of Civil Service in Singapore. At the beginning of the ceremony, His Excellency the Minister of Finance delivered a speech in which he stressed that the public finance program embodies the extent of the interest that the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain attaches to the role played by the human element as a basic pillar of the development process, and this trend is emphasized in the Economic Vision of the Kingdom of Bahrain 2030 and the National Economic Strategy. The Minister also stressed in his speech the Ministry of Finance’s keenness to continuously develop the competencies and capabilities of staff working in the financial, accounting and administrative aspects of government work, and to strengthen cooperation in this field with the Institute of Public Administration as the government body concerned with training public sector employees and bringing them to the utmost levels of professionalism and distinguished professional performance. The Minister praised the Public Finance Program as a specialized professional program that aims to develop the job performance of workers in the financial sectors of the government apparatus and contributes directly to the efforts aimed at increasing productivity and improving the quality and type of services provided by various government agencies. He also noted With the contribution of the College of Civil Service of the Republic of Singapore in formulating the programme, which represents an enrichment of the joint cooperation relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Republic of Singapore in the financial and economic fields. His Excellency Dr. Raed bin Shams, Director General of the Institute of Public Administration, also delivered a speech in which he pointed out that the Institute of Public Administration had launched many professional training programs, which came in response to the requirements of Bahrain Economic Vision 2030, in addition to a number of in-depth studies and numerous researches to measure training needs at the level of the government sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Bin Shams stressed the importance of the program, which was launched after a year of continuous effort to identify the most important financial skills necessary to develop government financial sector employees. After that, the delegation of the Singapore Civil Service College shed light on the existing partnership between them and the Institute of Public Administration and ways of joint cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, which resulted in the Public Finance Programme. Ghada Shanaa, Senior Director of Specialized Development at the Institute of Public Administration, gave an introductory presentation about the program, explaining its importance and the outcomes from it, and explaining the target groups and the academic certificates. At the conclusion of the ceremony, those working on creating this integrated program were honored from the Institute of Public Administration and the Ministry of Finance, who designed the program over a full year in cooperation with an elite group of trainers in the field. Singapore Civil Service College. It is worth noting that the Institute of Public Administration is still receiving applications for nominations for the proposed courses, as it intends during this period to offer five of the courses included in the general plan of the program, which grants its participants three types of professional certificates divided between the basic certificate, the professional certificate, and the advanced professional certificate in public finance.