The Dubai Government Excellence Program of the General Secretariat of the Executive Council held the final meeting for the exchange of knowledge for the third cycle of the “Dubai Learning Learn” initiative, with the participation of 10 projects representing 10 different government agencies.
The “In Dubai We Learn” initiative aims to foster a culture of institutional learning, transfer and exchange of knowledge in the government sector in Dubai through a set of reference comparison projects that are implemented through working teams from each participating government agency, so that the program team provides specialized training to the work teams, in addition to Follow-up of project implementation for a year, and the success stories of participating projects are documented in a specialized site for reference comparisons and best practices.
The event witnessed the official launch of the book of the second session of the initiative, preceded by a speech by the General Coordinator of the Dubai Government Excellence Program Dr. Hazaa Al-Naimi, and a panel discussion in the presence of Professor Ditan Adebangu from Greenwich University in the United Kingdom, and expert in government administration and digital transformation at the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines Arendt Hsar, and Director The Singapore Productivity Center was Dr. Won Konkhang, and the session was moderated by Senior Project Manager at Dubai Government Excellence Program Khaled Belhoul.
The Secretary-General of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Dubai, Abdullah Al Basti, valued the initiative’s role in preparing the national cadres capable of keeping pace with the emirate’s ambitions and achieving its vision for the future, in line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and the continuing directives of His Highness Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, aimed at consolidating the culture of excellence in government work and raising it towards new entrepreneurial horizons.
Al-Basti said: “His Highness the Crown Prince’s meeting with the employees of Dubai underlined the initiative (in Dubai we learn) His Highness’s keenness to closely follow the performance of government work, establish the principle of work in the spirit of one team, and encourage the government work team to refine their skills to be on the level of responsibility, and achieve the leadership’s vision by establishing Think of excellence to advance the path of leadership in government work in the emirate ».
The General Coordinator of the Dubai Government Excellence Program, Dr. Hazaa Al Nuaimi, stressed in his speech the importance of the initiative in enhancing the efficiency of human cadres to enhance the integrity of government work, and to continue to work to create creative leadership minds capable of achieving the aspirations and aspirations of the emirate.
The Dubai Municipality presented the “Digital Transformation of Contracts” project, the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority presented the “Green Charger 2.0” project, the Community Development Authority presented the “Empowering Happiness” project, while the Land and Property Department presented the “Smart Property Assessment” project, and the Dubai Police General Command participated in a project The “safe bags at the airport”, the Department of Economic Development presented a project to “improve the services of entrepreneurs”, and the Roads and Transport Authority participated in the “return on innovation” project, while the General Administration of Residency and Foreigners Affairs presented a project “the system of institutional integration”, and the Dubai Health Authority presented a project « Dubai is a heart-friendly city Dubai Foundation for Ambulance Services presented the "Journey of Innovation" project to develop an integrated system for innovation that would accelerate the effectiveness and results of all institutional components of innovation management, in line with international best practices to enhance preparedness for the future.
24 projects
In its two previous sessions, the “In Dubai Learn” initiative contributed to the development of 24 projects to enhance institutional performance, contributed to financial savings of up to 100 million dirhams, where six training sessions were attended by 130 trainees who received a certificate in the field of institutional learning and benchmarking, they contributed to Launching several development and improvement projects in their employers using the learning methodology of international best practices.