Strategic planning is a key to draw successful and result-oriented policies, according to Shura Council’s secretary-general Abdul Jalil Ebrahim Al-Turraif.
“Future policies will boost the huge role undertaken by the general secretariat in supporting the efforts of the legislative authority in the service of the motherland and the citizens and in order to develop the work of the general secretariat which is the forefront backer to the honorable members’ o the Shura Council,” he said.
The Shura Council’s secretary-general hailed during his reception of Jan Dip Al-Haj, strategic planning expert from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on the occasion of a workshop being held regarding development of the Council’s strategic action plans for directors, managers and departmental heads in cooperation with the Shura Council and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) aimed at supporting cadres, development of parliamentary capabilities of the general secretariat’s staff members in addition to supporting and developing skills of member of parliament (MPs).
The secretary-general expressed his gratitude and appreciation of the efforts exerted by the UNDP in the Kingdom of Bahrain and wished the UNDP programme and its officer’s success and good luck.
The workshop is being held between 4th to 6th September 2011 in collaboration with the UNDP program for directors, managers and departmental heads of the Shura Council’s general secretariat. Jan Dip Al-haj will give lectures during workshop in order to introduce the participants to the principles, concepts and methodologies of strategic planning and in order to brush up their strategic skills and to inform the participants on training techniques and technologies which can be adopted in the Shura Council’s strategic plans in addition to helping the participants to prepare the overall framework of the Shura Council’s strategic plan so that this framework may be crystallized to produce strategic plans later on.
The workshop will provide the participants ample opportunity to exchange expertise and knowledge and to construct common language amongst them which contributes into the formation of peers support groups.