The Executive Director of the Education and Training Directorate at the Institute of Public Administration (BIPA) Ishaq Ameen stressed that the Institute began to develop a new strategy to ensure the achievement of training objectives, through the inclusion of training modules that contribute to acquainting the participants on manners to develop and implement development plans at both practical and personal levels, where the Institute will ensure – in cooperation with trainees' immediate administrators – adopting these plans and follow-up their implementation in coordination with various government ministries and institutions.
Mr. Ameen added that the Institute is applying the 100-working day plan, in the preparation program for government leaders (leaders), which depends on the trainee to plan improving the performance of his directorate through implementing this plan in a hundred days period after completing training program, on the other hand, the new government leaders preparation program (cadres); participants have to submit an Individual Development Plan (IDP) under the supervision of their superiors to ensure binding application, bearing in mind that care should be taken to explain ways of enabling program outputs application in the working environment and the methods to overcome potential obstacles.
BIPA has recently celebrated the graduation of 24 trainees of the 8th batch of (Leaders) program, and 20 trainees of the 2nd batch of (Cadres) program, from several and different government agencies, in the presence of their immediate superiors at work, where a discussion arose in regard to activities and work completed in both programs and remarks were voiced, especially that presenting the 2nd batch of Cadres program went in line with the new design that fits the training needs for preparing a second row of leaders of the public sector employees in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
It is worth mentioning that the leadership programs offered by BIPA are accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) in the UK, where trainees are selected based on specific criteria, after carrying the interviews necessary to ensure readiness, as the program extends for weeks, where a variety of training events and activities are included, it also includes several major units such as civil service law and its execution regulations, the law of tenders and biddings, in addition to the field visits to the sites of work of the trainees, in order to strengthen the institutional communication and learning from the experiences of successful government organizations in this area.