The Minister of State
for Ministry of Personal, Public Grievances and Pensions, Smt.
Vasundhara Raje will inaugurate the second Specialized International
Conference of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences
(IIAS) being held in New Delhi from November 6 to 9, 2002. More
than 300 delegates from over 50 countries and fifteen international/regional
associations are expected to participate in the Conference. The
conference with the main theme "Towards Quality Governance
for Sustainable Growth and Development" will debate on important
topics. These are; i) Sustainable Growth and Development in the
information age, ii) Towards an accountable, transparent, efficient
and honest administration, ii) Strengthening administrative capacities
and using human resources for growth and development and iv) Relations
between international organizations and national administration
in sustainable development policies. Ms. Geraldine Fraser Moleketi,
Minister of Public Service and Administration, Government of South
Africa will be the General Rapporteur for the Conference.
The Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions (Department of Administrative Reforms
and Public Grievances), which is hosting the Conference, became
an institutional member of the IIAS in 1998. The advantage of
becoming an institutional member of the IIAS was that it would
enable the Government of India to get information on the latest
developments in the field of public administration through participation
in the international meetings and seminars organized by the IIAS,
as well as through various journals, documents and study reports
prepared by the Institute.
The IIAS, which has
consultative status with the Economic and Social council of the
United Nations, UNESCO and the International Labour Office, organizes
its major meetings to provide international forum where productive
exchanges between practioners and academics and between men and
women from varied horizons and belonging to diverse cultures take
place. These provide an opportunity to study, examine, summarize
and discern the major trends and problems facing public administration/management
and institutional development at the world or regional level.
The meetings provide a platform for exchange and views and country
experiences, innovations and practices in the areas of public
administration, specific to the theme of the Conference. It enables
the participants who are researchers and specialists in administrative
sciences to analyze fully the study of public administration in
its entirety and in all regions of the world, with a specific
emphasis on interfaces of public administration and development.
The first Specialized
International Conference of IIAS was held at Sunningdale, U.K.
in 1999. The other major Conferences organized by IIAS are; 23rd
Congress at Dubai (UAE) in 1995, 3rd International
Conference, Beijing (China) in 1996, Round Table conference, Quebec
City (Qyebec) in 1997, 24th Congress, Paris (France)
in 1998, First Regional International conference, Bologna (Italy)
in 2000 and 25th International Congress at Athens,
(Greece) in 2001.
The IIAS with its
seat in Brussels, was established in 1930 by the International
Congress of Administrative Sciences in Madrid. The IIAS is the
first of the specialized institutions to affirm, worldwide, its
scientific willingness to resolve the problems and challenges
facing nation and international administrations. The Institute’s
history demonstrates its capacity to respond to the needs of the
industrialized countries as well as to those of the countries
in transition and the developing countries.
