Government of Timor-Leste

On September 13, the Government of Timor-Leste, represented by the Ministry of State Administration and Territorial Planning (MoSATP) and the Government of Australia, through AusAID, delivered the Public Sector Development and Training Capacity Development Program certificates to 68 public servants, in a ceremony at the Hotel Timor.

The Secretary of State for Administrative Reform (SERA), Florindo Pereira, highlighted  that "Timor-Leste needs Management Training for trainers, so that after the course they can transfer their knowledge to colleagues in their institutions."

Florindo Pereira stressed that this was a good program, which continues to be implemented, but one that the trainers have to do before going through the assessment so that they may then prepare training manuals, according to the needs of each institution.

The trainees are public servants from the National Institute of Public Administration, the Secretariat of State for Professional Training and Employment, the Ministry of Social Solidarity, the Secretariat of State of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Economy and Development, the Ministry of Tourism, Commerce and Industry, Secretariat of State for the Promotion of Equality, the Secretariat of State of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Justice, the Library of Ermera, the Ministry of Education and the Crystal Foundation.

Present at the ceremony were the Secretary of State for Administrative Reform, Florindo Pereira, the head of AusAID program in Timor-Leste, Vincent Ashcroft, the Director of the Center for VET Practice from the Swinburne University of Technology Australia, Jillian Slater and the participants on the Program Public Sector Development and Training in Timor-Leste.