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Year one of renewed Tanzania program closes with promising outlook


Tuesday, September 18, 2018


WANJU – The Tanzanian heads, officers, and secretaries in LOGODI’s “Capacity Building Program on Local Government Administration and Leadership Management (Tanzania)” received their certificates of completion today, marking a successful end to the first year of the new series.

With a three-year term carrying on nine years of customized training for the country’s officials from 2007 to 2015, the KOICA-sponsored program took its 10 participants around Korea with an outlook toward better governance and accountability and a foundation for the local administrative system in Tanzania.

For the past two weeks, participants listened to talks by professors from leading higher education institutions Korea University and Yonsei University and by the President and Vice President of the Korea Institute for Development Strategy (KDS). Topics discussed the pursuit of a “New Tanzania” through good governance and local government; trust and transparency in local governments; economic development and the role of public officials in Korea; and strategic HRM and HRD in the Korean Government. A seminar with senior local government officials was also organized, to allow for deeper exchange between the countries and for better understanding of local government in Tanzania and Korea.

Study and site visits included the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Hyundai Motor Company in Asan City of Chungnam Province, and Wanju County Government. While at LOGODI, participants enjoyed cultural activities arranged for them at Jeonju Hanok Village, such as with a tea ceremony, folk songs, and the traditional dress, hanbok.

On the day before the closing ceremony, the participants presented action plans they had devised and fine-tuned over the course of their stay, to be applied in their workplaces upon their return home.

In his farewell remarks, LOGODI President Park Jae-min thanked the participants for their enthusiasm, sincerity, and energy during the program, and assured them of his institute’s pledge to share not only their successes but any challenges along the way. Quoting an African proverb that “a friend is someone to share the path with,” President Park added that the closing ceremony was not an end but rather the start to a friendship with the now alumni.