The ECO Secretary General attended the first meeting of the ECO High Level Expert Group on Human Resources Development held in Tehran on November 21-22, 2011. In His opening speech, while welcoming the participants he introduced the Organization saying that ECO has developed into a thriving regional organization and its international stature is growing. The Member States have been collaborating to accelerate the pace of regional development through their common endeavors. Underlining the importance of the human resource development he referred to the Article II (h) of the Treaty of Izmir, the founding Charter of ECO, which identifies “developing joint programmes for human resource development in ECO region” as one of the objectives of the Organization. He stressed upon the Member States for collective efforts and regular exchange of experiences in the field of Human Resources Development.
Delegates from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Host), Kyrgyz Republic, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Turkey participated in the event. The Honourable Ambassadors of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan also attended the inaugural session of the Meeting.
H.E. Dr. Lotfollah Frouzandeh, Vice-President for Management and Human Capital Development of the Islamic Republic of Iran inaugurated the Meeting. During two days Meeting the participating Delegates highlighted their countries positions on the Human Resource Development reflecting the organizational structure, recruitment and promotion policies, systems for performance evaluation and appraisal of the employees, functions and responsibilities of their respective departments involved in this field, economic and socio economic situation of their respective countries and discussed the challenges confronting them. They also exchanged information and experiences on the most important issues of Human Resource Development such as Recruitment System, Training System, Compensation System, Down-sizing Government Structure, Strengthening the Monitoring & Controlling Role of Government, Private Sector Partnership, Electronic Government, and Performance Appraisal.
It was decided that the 1st Ministerial Level Meeting on Human Resource Development ("The First Meeting of the ECO Ministers/Heads of the HRD Responsible Organizations/Commissions") be held in October/November 2012. The Islamic Republic of Iran offered to host the Ministerial Level Meeting which was appreciated. However, any other interested Member State can convey its readiness to host the said Meeting to the Secretariat in two months time.
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