WELL-TRAINED MANAGERS ENABLE MODERN ADMINISTRATION IN AFGHANISTAN
To ensure that responsiveness is more than just a soundbite, Afghanistan is investing in thorough training for managers as it establishes a modern administrative system. The yardstick used to measure the effectiveness of decentralised administrative bodies is firstly responsiveness to people and to their needs, and secondly the speed and reliability of service delivery.
NATIONWIDE STANDARD FOR MANAGERS
Between 2012 and 2016, on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office, GIZ supported the Afghan Government in establishing a nationwide training standard for public service managers. The University of Potsdam, the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, and the Centre for International Migration and Development were all involved.
The experts advised five Afghan universities on establishing faculties of administrative sciences and Bachelor degree courses, as well as providing advanced training for deans and lecturers. The first 430 students graduated at the end of 2015. And some 2,500 students at the five universities were enrolled for the degree course in Public Administration – a good fifth of them women.