PARTNERSHIPS FOR CIVIL SERVICE EXCELLENCE: TRENDS FROM THE ASTANA CIVIL SERVICE HUB PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

Panel objectives:

Panel aims to bring together experts and practitioners ACSH (Regional Hub of Civil Service in Astana: www.regionalhub.org) participating countries, including government officials, academia and multilateral organizations to:

·Shed light onto the transformations of the civil service in the concerned countries for the benefit of the NISPAcee members, particularly scholars and practitioners with research interests in the region;

·Facilitate the exchange of practical experience in addressing key civil service challenges, focusing on country-specific challenges and reform initiatives;

·Explore the ACSH’s role to enable multilateral cooperation and learning opportunities among the countries of the region;

·Provide a dialogue platform for addressing knowledge needs and capacity-building opportunities;

·Potentially form peer-to-peer learning alliances aimed at addressing priority civil service areas;

·Facilitate networking of the ACSH participating countries with the NISPAcee members.

Additional arrangements: In case the venue allow for an exhibition, the ACSH exhibit booth is planned to be installed

Agenda

Opening remarks:

1. Mr. Alikhan Baimenov, Chairman of Steering Committee, Astana Civil Service Hub

2. Mr. Juraj Nemec, President of NISPAcee

Presenters:

Representatives of ACSH participating countries:

1. "New trends in the civil service system of the Republic of Azerbaijan: Challenges and prosperities"

Mr. Bahram Khalilov, Deputy Chairman to the Board of Directors of the State Examination Center of the Republic of Azerbaijan

2. "Civil Service Reform and Professionalization in the Republic of Belarus”

Mr. Alexander Ivanovsky, professor, advisor to the rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of Belarus

3. "Ongoing reforms in the civil service system of the Republic of Armenia: the current challenges and bottlenecks”

Ms. Ruzanna Khachatryan, Head of Development Programs and Professional Excellence Department, Civil Service Council of the Republic of Armenia

4. "Civil Service Reform and Capacity Building: case of Kazakhstan”

Dr. Gulimzhan Suleimenova, Directorof the Institute for Civil Servants Executive Education Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan

5. "Current Civil Service Trends in the Republic of Estonia”

Ms. Mari Pedak, senior consultant, e-Governance Academy of Estonia (TBC)