Training on population and development work for more than 300 population officers and officials

Attending the training were comrade Duong Dinh Chinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Department of Health, along with representatives of departments under the Department of Population - Family Planning, the Steering Committee for Population and Development, the Health Center and population officials in 21 districts, cities and towns. Photo: My Ha

Speaking at the opening of the conference, DirectorHealth servicehas affirmed: Improving the quality of civil servants and public employees through training and fostering has always been identified by our Party and State as one of the top political tasks.

With a deep awareness of that importance, in 2020, the Department of Health, Department ofPopulation - Family PlanningThe province has advised the Provincial People's Committee to issue a Project on training and improving the quality of civil servants and public employees working on population in Nghe An province for the period 2020 - 2025; in which "Training and providing information on population and development work for civil servants and public employees who are leaders, managers and members of the Steering Committee for population and development work at all levels" is identified as the first important task in the tasks of the Project and becomes the content of training and organizing annual training.

Director of the Department of Health Duong Dinh Chinh speaks at the opening ceremony. Photo: MH

The purpose of training is to update, provide information, equip basic and specialized knowledge on population and development, in order to meet the requirements of tasks in the new situation. Through training courses to improve operational capacity, members of the steering committee of the "Strategic staff team" will have the opportunity to exchange, discuss, share experiences, good practices, practical solutions, to promote the effectiveness of leadership roles; overcome difficulties, obstacles, and apply appropriately to the reality of population work in the locality.

The Director of the Department of Health also shared the difficulties of the Population sector in 2021. Due to the impact of the epidemic, the whole sector had to focus on epidemic prevention, so many activities and goals of the Population sector were interrupted and affected.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Cu - Chairman of the Scientific Council - Institute for Population, Family and Children Research introduces 60 years of Vietnam's population policy. Photo: My Ha

In the above special context, the implementation of the training course by the Population Department to provide information on population and development work is of utmost importance. The training course with the participation of population experts from the Central Government will be an opportunity for the population workers in the province to grasp the whole picture of population and development work, the impacts of population on economic and social life and orientation on some key contents of population work in Nghe An in the coming time.

The training course is scheduled to take place over 3 days with about 300 trainees.

The training content will focus on two main topics, which are 60 years of Vietnam's population policy: achievements, impacts and lessons learned, introduced by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Cu - Chairman of the Scientific Council - Institute for Population, Family and Children Research.

In addition, Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich Lien - Deputy Director of the Training Center - General Department of Population will have a topic on orientation of some key contents on population work in Nghe An and the role of grassroots authorities in population and development work; orientation of activities of the Steering Committee for population and development work at district and commune levels in the province in the coming time.