Korea helps in capacity building

Training programme in Korea:

Ministry officials with KOICA representatives

Water Supply and Drainage Ministry Additional Secretary Sarath Chandrasiri Vithana and 21 officials from the ministries of Finance and Planning, Public Administration and Home Affairs, Economic Development, Industry and Commerce, Irrigation and Water Resources Management, Land and Land Development and Local Government and Provincial Councils, attended the Capacity Building for Economic Development country-specific fellowship programme in Korea from June 7 to 23, as part of the 2012 Korea International Cooperation Agency's (KOICA) fellowship programme to Sri Lanka.

This programme was specially designed to provide Sri Lankan officials, responsible for various economic development agendas at national and local level, with opportunities to obtain knowledge through theoretical lectures on Korean economic development, rural development, fiscal and financial policy, business development and trade promotion policy, environmental conservation, and income distribution.

Under this training course, group discussions and presentations were held to seek ways to attend to major agricultural development issues in Sri Lanka.

In addition, participants also went on field trips to the Korean Farmers School, Posco, Hyundai Heavy Industry, Hyundai Motors, Kotra, etc to better understand the Korean economy.

With the aim to support human resource development in Sri Lanka which is deemed critical to national development, KOICA is making efforts to offer various thematic fellowship programmes to Lanka officials.