Government of Azerbaijan Interested in Turkish Experience
USAID’s Public Investment Policy project, in close collaboration with World Learning Incorporation and support from Turkish International Cooperation Agency, brought a delegation of 16 practitioners from the Government of Azerbaijan’s (GOAZ) Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Agriculture, Committee for Irrigation for Water Supply to Ankara, Turkey as a follow-up to a USAID-sponsored 2006 study tour and subsequent multi-week training on Public Investment Analysis and Management. The purpose of the trip was to expose the government practitioners to another country in its region where a public investment program is being successfully implemented, and help them gain first-hand knowledge and skills from their Turkish counterparts.
The Azerbaijani delegation had a number of practical trainings at the State Planning Organization (Turkey’s equivalent of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Economic Development), and full-day workshops at the Ministry of Finance and State Treasury Department. The PIP project also arranged half-day internships for a few GOAZ practitioners in relevant departments of the State Planning Organization. The GOAZ delegates expressed their appreciation for what they felt was a very useful trip, and admitted that their experience would help them to more effectively and efficiently implement Azerbaijan’s own public investment policy program.
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A group of senior government officials visited Turkey’s central agencies to learn from their economic management experience
Photo Credit: Sabira Shihaliyeva |
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