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• Providing quality training in public administration and management

• Promoting & disseminating best-practice in the region

• Improving organisational performance primarily in the public sector

• Improving the skills of practising administrators and managers

• Increasing the number of trained personnel in the region

• Ensuring a continuing supply of highly trained graduates in public administration and management

• Contributing toward improved performance of the economies of the SADC member states

In attaining these objectives, the programme will take into consideration the relevant developments that have taken place in the region. These include, amongst others:

• Changes in administration and managerial roles and styles

• An emphasis on policy analysis and coordination

• The shift in emphasis from procedural enforcement to effective service delivery to private enterprise and to the public at large

• An emphasis on public sector reform

• The privatisation and commercialisation of public entities

• The change from central planning to sectorial planning

• A general emphasis on political and economic liberalisation

• The emphasis on good governance, accountability, ethics, leadership and codes of conduct

• Concerns with value for money and performance management