Report of the EROPA Seminar on " Administrative Reforms and Innovation "

Abstract

Mr. President, it is a great honour for me to present to you and the General Assembly a summary report on the discussions which transpired during the four sessions of the Seminar last Friday and Monday, revolving around the very theme of this General Assembly, "Administrative Reforms and Innovations in Asia." As there will be available detailed written reports of each of the four seminar sessions prepared by the four rapporteures, namely, Drs. Amara, Abueva, Siagian and Hsueh, I will limit anyself to making only a brief general summary around several major subthemes of the Seminar. These included the following: (1) the concept of administrative reform; (2) the ecological and political setting of administrative reform; (3) the role of political leadership in administrative reform; (4) the crucial role of administrators as change agents and the adequacy of the traditional bureaucracy in providing the right milieu for administrative reform; and (5) the strategy and conduct of administrative reform