Mao Chi Channa

The Royal School of Administration (RSA or ERA) cooperated with Council for Administrative Reform (CAR) and Civil Service College (CSC) of Singapore hold a conference in the morning of Friday, July 24, 2009 at the conference center of ERA, Phnom Penh. The conference has presented about the public service reform of Cambodia by Excellency Chhuon Chham, the vice-general secretary of the Council for administrative reform (CAR) and about the Human Resource Management of Singapore by Ms. Jaime Teong, the Associate Fellow with the Center for Governance and Leadership, Civil Service College Singapore.

Excellency Chhuon Chham had a say about the improving and reforming of public service of Cambodia, that it was started from zero level when at that time (1979), the officers worked without salary. Moreover, he shared about The National Program for Administrative Reform (2009-2013) that government of Cambodia has to

• Improving Transparency & Quality in the Delivery of Public Services
• Improving Accountability & Efficiency in Public Service
• Human & Institutional Capacity Development
• Human Resource Management & Payroll and
• Cadre Management & Deployment

This is a great conference that we can share the experiences and outlook in Human Resource Management in Public Service of Cambodia and Singapore and also it makes closer cooperation of both governments, said by Excellency Ly Kimsok, the director of Royal School of Administration.

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“What a Minister Expects of the Public Service” is the topic lectured by The former Western Australian Premier, Professor Geoff Gallop, the Director of Graduate School of Government (GSG) of the University of Sydney to 350 students of Royal School of Administration (ERA) of Cambodia on Wednesday, July 22, 2009. This class lecture is under the presidency of Excellency Ms. Margaret Adamson the ambassador of Australia based in Phnom Penh and Excellency Ly Kimsok the director of Royal School of Administration.

After showing his background, that he worked as an elected member of parliament for 20 years , worked as a minister for three yera (1990-1993) and five years as a Primier of Western Autralia (2001-2006),  the Professor Geoff Gallop has shared experience of working and lectured all students about the key rules to good government.

 As a student of that conference, I (Mao chi channa) have learned that there are eleven keys rules in order to good government. All of them are:

1. Understanding the role of Minister: to understand the responsibility of Minister including his policy leadership and political authority.
2. Understanding the Life of Minister: Not only to learn about the role of Minister but understanding also the life of Minister in order to prepare the good strategies to work with her/him.
3. Expect the Unexpected: the life of your minister becomes your life. Anything can happen such as Hectic, Pressured, and events. So better to assumption what will be happened in the future, so you can prepare the solution in advance.
4. Make sure there are no surprises: good government is crucial and to good government need good risk management. So should be no crises.
5. Be preparing to be judge: as a staff of public service is not working for the Minister but also for the public and you advantage, so it is impossible equation. So prepare yourself to make good outcome as well as outputs and it must be effectiveness as well as efficiency.
6. Become a trusted adviser: high quality, on time, up-to-date realistic advice and avoid superficiality.
7. Educate your Minister on implementation: strategy and policy is empty if without implementation.
8. Think and act strategically and co-operatively across government: keep touch with what is happening across government. So creating networking to whole of government attitude is required.
9. Establish rules for communication: need clear effective rules on information flows-form and content especially the relations between Minister and departmental officers.
10. Be loyal to the values and system of public service: You are required to work with a government whose priorities may not be your own. Professionalism and system of public service both of internal and external environment must be mutual trust.
11. Remember that frustration is part of your reality: working as public service provider, Sometimes what you intend and what happens can be quite different. You will have many disappointments. You will have many frustrations. So the best way is be patient.

“What explains success?” and he explain that to be success we need right decision.  The right decision is from experience and experience is got from wrong decision “.

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The temple pets in Cambodia are the pets belong to Temple (Pagoda) that are fed and taken care by monks, nuns or the members of temple. Most of those pests are dogs, cats, chickens, duck, and geese and so on.  In general, the temple pets live in the temple with peaceful environment, they are not threatened. There are few cases that those animals become the temple pets, first case, they are thought as an evil animal or bad luck animals. Second case they are sacrificed to god or tutelary spirits or the spirits of dead. Third case, they were street pets that have no place to stay.

The religion in Cambodia is not only Buddhism, but multi religions. Among of them, Buddhism and Hinduism are playing main role in this country, so the abstractionism is practicing. In fact, they believe in bad and good luck that bring by pets or animals. They can note the evil animals or bad luck pets by strange characteristics such as uncommon point of that animal. For example, a dog or pig has 5 legs, the caw that has unlucky strange spot on the body…………. act. Moreover, they believe that only the power of pagoda and the dharma can pacify the misfortune and avoid the villagers from the danger. As the result, those animals are taken to live in the pagoda.

Furthermore, the people sacrificed the animals to gods or spirits in order pray to get fortune or to fill full their desire. For example, they promise with the spirit of dead or tutelary sprit to offer the food or alive animals for their good running business, or they was ordered from fortune-teller to sacrifice the alive animal to spirit to avoid from bad luck and so on, therefore  when  the wish is completed, the people always do as they promised. The chickens are the most animals for this kind of sacrifice.

As well, the street pets (Homeless) are taken to live in the temple such as cats and dogs. Some people they love pets and want to feed them so much but they have no ability enough. Feeding pets need time and money. They have no different choose beside take them to pagoda. Case in point, they feed only one female cat, latter on she has kids. It can be 3 to 5 kids, so the feeder cannot responsible any more. So the best way is taking them to pagoda where they believe that the holy place and their pets will be looked after well from the members of pagoda.

In conclusion, the temple pets are the animals that related to the beliefs in Khmer society, even though, they are fed well from monks and nuns in the harmony atmosphere, no scaring, no killing, no sinning any more. They live in this peaceful place till the end of life.

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