Human Resource Development Strategy of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to 2025 and Vision to the year 2030

1. Personnel development still lacks detailed plan, such as training planning, curriculum management, budget and training organization is not centralized, so the quality of personnel does not meet the needs of the political duties and can not collect information on personnel development continuously.

2. The Performance appraisal system of staffs and civil servants have not yet been able to use as a basis for formulating a personnel development plan.

3. Knowledge and capacity of technical staff and civil servants are not high, and the technical staff is not enough to meet the needs of the work. At the same time, many young technical staffs have a limited level of technical knowledge and English language, which does not meet the donor criteria, especially scholarships for master's and doctoral degrees.

4. Recruitment of staffs and civil servants at various levels is still insufficient in terms of quality, knowledge, professionalism and staff distribution, especially at the local level.

5. Promotion technical staffs are still limited to encourage farmers to organize productions, researches and technical service centers are not yet strong, not yet able to fulfill their political duties to the fullest, many centers, the station still lacks experienced technical staffs and skills to work equipment to budget.

6. Capacity building and training of civil servants through the actual work processes, especially at the grassroots level, production bases are not yet systematic.

7. Coordination between the relevant departments at both the central and local levels is not yet continuous. Improving production capacity and production chains, especially the formation of groups, leading to the establishment of cooperatives, although there are gaps, has not yet been strengthened and expanded. III. Human Resource Development Strategy to 2025 and Vision to the year 2030. 3.1 Vision to the year 2030 Human resource development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has to be ready in terms of knowledge and skills, revolutionary morality in leading management, scientific and technical research, and promotion of technical services to implement the agricultural, forestry and rural development plans effectively and efficiently. 3.2 Human Resource Development Strategy to 2025 3.2.1 Strategy 1: Increase political-ideological tasks  Purposes 1) Party members, key staffs, leading-management staffs as well as civil servants at all levels of the organization have to have clear political mindsets, aspirations, qualifications, and the ability to perform their tasks in a scientific and professional manner in their effective and efficient implementation. 5  Target

1. Party members, key officers, leading-management officers as well as civil servants at all levels of the organization have educated the Party's policy guidelines, resolutions, orders, rules and regulations, strategies, plans, action plans issued by higher levels on a regular and continuous basis;

2. To upgrade political theory for executives at various levels, such as: high political theory for senior executives (executive positions gategory 1-3) to 95% or more; Intermediate political theory provides 90% or more of middle level executives (executive positions category 4-5); The basic theory for party members and staffs and civil servants to 60%.  Focused tasks

1. To improve the format and organize the campaign to disseminate the policy guidelines of the Party and the State in each period in a systematic manner, in accordance with the goals and in accordance with the actual work;

2. To upgrade political theory and party-staff work for 5 days for party members and staff-civil servants. 3.2.2 Strategy 2: Build and manage civil servants efficiently and effectively  Purposes

1. In order to have continuous and systematic successors to lead and manage, to have specialized staffs sufficient to meet the needs in each phase of the implementation of agricultural, forestry and rural development strategies;

2. In order to have a personnel structure, especially in terms of seniority, qualifications (professional) that are proportional to the implementation of duties and the placement

3. In order to provide civil servants at all levels with self-development in all forms to become staffs with strong political qualities, professional knowledge, science- technology and modern agriculture in the systematic work that can be passed on from generation to generation.  Target

1. To build and upgrade professional doctoral degrees increased by an average of 66% from 61 to 101 people, master's degree increased by an average of 11% from 873 to 973 people, bachelor's degree increased by an average of 5% from 4113 to 4 3 1 3 people;

2. There are training courses in line with the goals, there is a budget for implementation;

3. To build and upgrade at least 1 ,8 0 0 trainers by focusing on training courses for trainers to have a basic knowledge of laws, sub-laws of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; Seed production and cultivation techniques for rice, maize, cassava, rubber, timber, vegetables and other potential crops, management and use of agricultural land, irrigation technicians, clean agricultural productions, production upgrading, animal husbandry-veterinary and aquaculture, forestry to train 10,100 people in basic agriculture;

4. To increase the participation of women technicians in all activities, trainings and the exchange of lessons and experiences on various technical techniques of agriculture, forestry and rural development to 35%; Promote the participation of female staffs in decision-making at various levels to 25% or more, for public organizations 30%;

5. To provide English language training for technical staff to use in the work to increase the goal of upgrading the master's degree to 300 people;

6. All civil servants have a self-development plan with systematic monitoring, inspection and evaluation;

7. The staff structure is balanced by ensuring all 3 generations (senior, middle and junior);

8. The distribution structure of personnel in the organizational structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry from the central to the local level shall be in the following 6 proportions: 12% at the central level, 15% at the provincial level, 70% at the district level and 3% at colleges and schools;

9. Technical structure according to the professional groups to have the following proportions: 3% in the agricultural economy; Cultivation, crop protection 22%; Soil Science, Agricultural Chemistry 2%; Livestock 20%; Fisheries 2%; Veterinarians 3%; Environment, Ecology, Biodiversity 3%; Irrigation 8%; Water Resources 1%; Agricultural machinery 1%; Agricultural processing 1%, forestry 21%; Nutrition 1%; Agricultural Extension 1%; Rural Development 1%; Other subjects 10%;

10. Civil servants must have an annual self-development plan and must conduct self- study 1 0 0 hours per year or more related to 6 0 % responsibility and 4 0 % other knowledge;

11. All parties must have a guide on the implementation of each task to compile into a systematic knowledge center of the organization;

12. Civil servants who have participated in trainings, seminars, study tours in domestic and abroad must share the lessons learned from the participation to colleagues and disseminate through the website and journal of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry;

13. There is a modern civil servants management system.  Focused tasks

1. To assess the capacity of civil servants throughout the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry;

2. To upgrade the capacity of civil servants in charge of human resource development of the Departments and equivalent, Agriculture and Forestry and Irrigation Colleges, Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Offices, Vientiane Capital, District Agriculture and Forestry Offices;

3. To organize training on organization-personnel duties for civil servants to those in charge of organization-personnel throughout the agriculture and forestry sector;

4. All civil servants must develop a manual for the implementation of the work for which they are responsible by updating it in accordance with each period, as well as assessing the need for training and creating an annual staff-civil servant development plan as well as allocating the budget to organize training;

5. To identify staffing and personnel planning throughout the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as establish mechanisms to turn the staffs in the plan to identify leading-management, succession, technical staffs with knowledge, ability, and experience; staffs who receive scholarships after graduation to work at centers, agricultural technical service stations at various levels so that they can do research and promote agricultural production;

6. To establish technical and specialized staffs to respond to the development plan for the building of 200 bachelor degrees, 100 master degrees, 40 doctoral degrees;

7. To organize a three-month English language training course to prepare for the master's degree program being led by the Department of Organization and Personnel in doing budget plans, operational plans, and researching the goals of the participants so that the staff can use English according to the plan;

8. The ability to understand policies, public administration sytems and legislation, the use of information technology, foriegn languages – particularly English; The most priority is management ability in order to improve the organizational structure. Senior staffs must be a person with a vision, strategic thinking, the ability to adapt to changes, problem analysis skills, decision-making skills, working on a focused-result basis, the ability to build a efficient team, motivate subordinates, and have good communication, negotiation skills, good ethics, principal charateristics, and self-development based on changing situations. For technical officials, standard trainings should be organized regulary to meet thier needs and positions; 7

9. To coordinate with the technical departments, education institutes to research and improve the training curriculum and apply for approval, collect information on the needs of the village agricultural technical staffs in various fields, as well as budget and organize training according to plan;

10. To improve the database management system for the staffs and civil servants of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry so that it can be used uniformly at the central and local levels and can be integrated. 3.2.3 Strategy 3: Improve the education system of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to a higher quality  Purpose

1. Providing Agriculture and Forestry Colleges and Tha Ngon irrigation College with teaching-learning curriculums that are in line with the occupation of the country's socio-economic development structure in terms of regional and international integration;

2. Education institutions under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry can organize teaching and learning and guide students to organize production in order to be self- sufficient in consumption as well as to improve their skills in farming management;

3. The infrastructure of Agriculture and Forestry Colleges and the Tha Ngon irrigation College have been improved, staffs-teachers have been developed their capacity in accordance with national and regional education standards to be able to create personnel to serve the society according to the needs of the labor market;

4. Education institutions under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry have more domestic and private partners, both domestic and foreign.  Target

1. To increase more dual cooperation training systems;

2. To develop curriculums that focus on students with specific abilities, skills and experience, knowledge of foreign languages to create employment opportunities and support the labor market of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) to grow within the region;

3. Agriculture and forestry and Irrigation Colleges have various professional development groups, including the public and private sectors;

4. Students have productive farm activities on campus and practical training outside of the educational institution equipped with equipment and apply for modern technology to the teaching-learning of the theory and practice enough to be ready to participate in skill tests and participate in professional skills competitions at various levels;

5. Education institutions have been improved in terms of infrastructure, facilities and good and green scenery to meet national and regional education quality standards;

6. There are students enrolled in 4 agriculture and forestry colleges and Tha Ngon irrigation College under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, comprising of 11 courses which have been revised to focus on skills, and be able to meet the needs of the labor market, in the next five years (2021-2025), estimates plan to enroll a total of 4,077 students;

7. To provide technical trainings and other forms of services to society.  Focused Tasks

1. Colleges have placed a master plan on the development, land allocation, detailed land use and infrastructure, and the facilities of the Agriculture and Forestry College and the Tha Ngon Irrigation college have been developed to the standard based on the forest and infrastructure development plans of the colleges;

2. To develop an integrated learning curriculum, sign MOUs with partners, entrepreneurs, and implement integrated learning-teaching practices to include professional groups including the public, private, production groups, cooperatives, 8 provide students with an understanding of the labor market, and to raise awareness of agricultural entrepreneurship initiatives to become self-employed in the future;

3. To improve and develop the quality of internship system by focusing on more private internships to create employment opportunities for graduates, as well as follow-up of students after graduation to study the needs of the market, to evaluate the curriculum, and to review both the three-year system and the continuous one-year system for 1.5 years to improve the teaching and learning contents to be consistent at least 2 years per once;

4. To upgrade the knowledge and skills of teachers in various fields in various forms related to teaching and learning, technical services by coordinating with the government, local and foreign entrepreneurs to ensure the training of quality personnel, to generate income and gradually improve living standards;

5. To implement 12 standards and 45 indicators on the quality assurance of education set by the Ministry of Education and Sports to ensure good quality. IV. Implementation Measures

1. Leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry are responsible for leading and directing the implementation of the strategy for human resource development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in each period and reserve the budget as appropriate;

2. The department of organization and personnel is responsible for coordinating with permanent secretary office, departments, institutes, agriculture and forestry colleges, Tha Ngon Irrigation college, Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Offices, Vientiane Capital, District Agriculture and Forestry Offices throughout the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry;

3. Leaders at each level integrate the strategic plan for the employees under their jurisdiction and create conditions to facilitate the implementation with innovation;

4. To establish a database system to collect information on human resource development so that it can monitor and evaluate reports to higher levels and the National Commission for the Development of National Human Resources on a regular and accurate basis in each period;

5. To transform this strategic plan into a detailed program plan of each department, division, and division, as well as to implement it periodically, appropriately, and to be truly effective. V. Monitoring and Evaluation

1. There is a plan to collect statistical information to ensure the accuracy, clarity and continuity to create the report of each party 0 2 times a year to the Department of Organization and Personnel to compile the report of the National Human Resource Development Board;

2. To monitor the progress of the implementation of the Human Resource Development Strategy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry up to 2025, evaluate based on the actual success in the implementation;

3. Departments of Organization and Personnel, Permanent Secretary Office, Departments, Institutions, Centers and Equivalents of the Ministries, Departments of Agriculture and Forestry of Vientiane Province, Vientiane Capital, Agriculture and Forestry University and Tha Ngon irrigation College under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to be in charge of coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the rights and responsibilities set forth. 9 Appedix: Human Resource Development Action Plan of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Year 2021-2025 Strategy Focused Works Projects Budget Responsible Parties

1. Improve the format and organize the propaganda of the Build a political-ideological Internal budget Party Executive Committee, policy guidelines of the State Party in each period in a party Ministry of Agriculture and

1. Increase systematic manner, in accordance with the goals and in line Forestry political- with the actual works ideological 2. Organize 5 days training on basic political theory, party-staff Upgrading Project for Internal budget Party Executive Committee, works work for party members and staff-civil servants. Political Theory- Ministry of Agriculture and Administration and Party Forestry and Staff works

1. Assess the need for training and develop development plans Agriculture and Forestry Internal budget Ministry of Agriculture and of staff and civil servants throughout the Ministry of Human Resource Forestry, Organization of all Agriculture and Forestry. Development Project parties

2. Upgrading capacity building of staffs in charge of human Strengthen organizational Internal budget and seeking Ministry of Agriculture and resource development of the Departments and equivalent, works for staffs sources of funding Forestry, Organization of all Departments of Agriculture and Forestry, schools, parties Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Departments, Vientiane Capital, District Agriculture and Forestry Offices.

2. Build and 3. Organize training on organization-personnel for staffs and Strengthen organizational Internal budget and seeking Ministry of Agriculture and manage staff civil servants in charge of organization-personnel works for staffs sources of funding Forestry, Organization of all and civil throughout the agriculture and forestry sector. parties servants 4. All staffs and civil servants must develop a manual for the Write manuals for work Internal budget and seeking Ministry of Agriculture and efficiently implementation of the work for which they are responsible, implementation sources of funding Forestry, Organization of all and with consistent updates from time to time, as well as an parties effectively assessment of training needs and the development of an annual staffs-civil servants development plan, as well as budgeting for implementing such trainings.

5. Define positions and workforce planning throughout the Improve staff-civil servant Internal budget and seeking Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as establish management sources of funding Forestry, Organization of all mechanisms to turn the staffs in the plan to identify leading- parties management, succession-replacement, technical staffs with knowledge, ability, experience; Staffs who have received scholarships after graduation and perform their works at the centers, agricultural technical service stations at various levels, so that they can do research and promote the work of commercial agricultural production.

6. Create technical staffs, specialized staffs in response to the Agriculture and Forestry Internal budget and seeking Ministry of Agriculture and sectoral development plan in building 200 bachelor's Human Resource sources of funding Forestry, Organization of all degrees, 100 master's degrees, 40 doctoral degrees. Development Project parties 1

7. Organize a 3-month English language training for the target Agriculture and Forestry Internal budget and seeking Ministry of Agriculture and group to prepare for a master's degree program under the Human Resource sources of funding Forestry, Organization of all leadership of the Department of Organization and Personnel Development Project parties in creating budgets, action plans and researching target participants so that staff and civil servants can use English as planned.

2. Build and 8. Organize the training of leading and managing staffs in a Improve staff-civil servant Internal and External Ministry of Agriculture and manage staff systematic manner in accordance with the defined capacity management Budget Forestry and civil limits, namely: The capacity of senior staffs as a basis for the servants use of information technology can understand policies, efficiently and systems, governance and legislation in the organization of effectively strategic vision and research, problem analysis anddecisions, implementation focuses on the results of motivation and negotiation (communication skills), adaptation and management, change of ethics and qualifications, self- development capacity, for technical staffs to be upgraded to meet the standards of academic staffs and management positions.

9. Coordinate with the technical departments, educational Agriculture and Forestry Internal and External Ministry of Agriculture and institutions to research and improve the training curriculum Human Resource Forestry and apply for approval, collect information on the needs of Development Project the village agricultural technical staffs in various fields, as well as budget and organize training as planned.

10. Improve the database system for staff management of the Improve staff-civil servant Internal and External Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to be modern, management Forestry uniform at the central and local levels and to be able to integrate with each other.

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