ASCI’s Programme on Results Based Management at Dhaka
At the invitation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Administrative Staff College of India conducted a Programme on Results Based Management at Dhaka, Bangladesh for the officials of the Food Processing and Monitoring Unit of the Govt. of Bangladesh, and 11 Administrative Ministries working with FPMU. Twenty participants attended this programme with designations ranging from Research Directors, Senior Assistant Chief, and Senior Assistant Secretary etc. The programme was delivered as part of the activities of the National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme (NFPCSP), which is jointly implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN and the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU), Ministry of Food and Disaster Management, Government of Bangladesh with financial support from the European Commission and USAID.
The main aim of the programme was to help the officials responsible for implementing the National Food Security Policy and Strategy of Bangladesh to develop plans with focus on results.
The programme was led by Dr. B. Kinnera Murthy, Professor and Chairperson of Strategic Management Area, along with Dr. A A Firdausi, Professor, Human Resource Management. The programme was designed with a practical orientation. The approach of ASCI faculty in relating to Bangladesh ground realities was highly appreciated. The programme was a great success not only as evident from the feed back of the programme, but also because of the unprecedented attendance in the training programme, as compared to all the other training programmes which FPMU has undergone earlier. A couple of participants remarked that the practical orientation made all the concepts of Results Based Management such as impacts, outputs, outcomes, risks and assumptions very clear to them for the first time, even though they were introduced to these concepts earlier.
The programme is likely to lead to more training interventions both at Dhaka and in Hyderabad. It is even more gratifying that this has replicated our earlier intervention with the FAO project in Syria a couple of years back, where training by ASCI was appreciated for its utility and delivery.
