UAE – Mubasher: The joint task forces of the UAE and Uzbekistan governments have set a series of practical steps to transfer the UAE’s pioneering government work experience to Uzbekistan within three years.
This step coincides with the partnership agreement, signed in April 2019, coming into force in government modernisation between the two countries, according to a press release.
This came during intensive meetings between both parties that took place during the visit of a high-level Uzbekistan government delegation to the UAE.
The delegation was headed by Uzbekistan’s deputy prime minister Aziz Abdukhakimov with the company of more than 60 ministers and senior government officials.
“The two parties agreed to expand the scope of cooperation from 17 to 19 areas with the addition of taxation and human resources, as well as to implement 120 joint initiatives over the next three years, with 73 of these set for launch in 2019,” the release highlighted.
Both parties also approved specific timeframes to activate the partnership agreement and finish the joint initiatives’ schedule with a focus on improving service efficiency and institutional performance, leadership qualification, and capacity building.
The strategic partnership will see the transfer of the UAE model of government work in “modernisation, performance measurement, best practice application, and service delivery to establish an innovation- and excellence-based system of government in Uzbekistan,” the release added.
Expert task forces have been formed by the two countries under the terms of the agreement to support joint projects across 19 areas, “including government strategy, government performance, government innovation, coding, future education, future economy, global competitiveness, and ease of doing business.”
The partnership is part of the UAE’s government knowledge exchange programme, in which the country has also signed partnership agreements in government modernization with Egypt, Jordan, Costa Rica, and Portugal.
