Manama, Dec. 7( BNA) Shaikh Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister, chaired the fourth board meeting of the Institute of Public Administration( IPA) for 2025.
Deputy Prime Minister chairs IPA Board meeting
The institute’s performance pointers for the time demonstrated clear growth in demand for training and development. IPA delivered 137 training programmes and courses through accredited coaches, serving 5,265 trainees from the public and private sectors and individualities, an increase of further than 46 compared with the former time.
The Deputy Prime Minister said that the IPA continues to play a major part in enhancing government performance, developing mortal capital and strengthening the capabilities of public capabilities in line with Bahrain’s comprehensive development pretensions under the leadership of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and the directives of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister.
Shaikh Khalid bin Abdullah noted that IPA’s programmes are effectively meeting the training requirements of both public and private sectors, and keeping pace with ultramodern developments in operation and governance. This growing part reflects the institute’s methodology of streamlining training approaches, espousing transnational norms in evaluation and quality, and creating an terrain that encourages invention and nonstop enhancement.
The board approved the periodic plan for 2026, which includes launching the National Programme for Government Leadership Development, continuing professional programmes and short courses, and developing services in assessment, guidance and coaching, to strengthen professional and leadership qualifications in both sectors and offer individualities openings to make chops and upgrade their moxie.
The board ate IPA’s institutional addition in the public qualifications frame under the Education and Training Quality Authority, considering it an achievement that reinforces the institute’s status as an accredited training provider, aligning its programmes with public frame situations and enhancing trust among heirs and mates.
The board also noted the acceptance of the first batch of scholars for the Master’s programme in Leadership and Innovation, offered by IPA in cooperation with King’s College London, with studies listed to start in January 2026.
Shaikha Rana bint Isa bin Duaij Al Khalifa, Director General of IPA, presented a report on the institute’s main achievements for the time, including entering transnational delegation from the UK grounded NOCN Group, subscribing memoranda of understanding with original and indigenous realities to expand training and development hookups, and her election to the board of the International Institute of Administrative lores for the 2025 – 2028 term.
Shaikh Khalid bin Abdullah confided the sweats of the IPA board and superintendent operation during the time, noting the clear enhancement in performance pointers and enforced enterprise. He emphasised that these sweats enhance the institute’s donation to advancing executive lores and perfecting practices across government bodies.
The Deputy Prime Minister also expressed expectation for farther measures to ameliorate effectiveness in both public and private sectors, supporting pathways to comprehensive and sustainable growth for the Kingdom.
