The Kingdom of Bahrain has witnessed, in the period from 23 to 24 April 2014, the first conference on Public Administration Research (MENAPAR). This conference was launched by the Institute of Public Administration in the Kingdom of Bahrain (BIPA) in partnership with the Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to announce the official establishment of the “MENAPAR” Organization, which brings together countries the Middle East and North Africa under the umbrella of the Public Administration Research.
The MENAPAR Organization came to confront the major challenges and changes affecting the development programs in the Arab countries, and in the decision-making process and policies in the public sector, as well as to study the extent of interdependence with other sectors and its reflection on them, based on methodical and scientific studies stemming from practitioners and thinkers in the areas of public administration, to suit the aspirations of citizens through providing desirable public services and thus improving public administration being the backbone of prosperity and development.
BIPA seeks - through MENAPAR organization - to bring together all Arab countries with their mixture of experiences and practices in the administrative sciences, aiming to establish a research agenda for public administration that its outputs serve public sector, and its diversity enriches the exchange of knowledge, ideas, experiences and science of common interest in the fields of public administration. MENAPAR will work on analyzing and studying many of the current issues in public administration, and extracting the ingredients for success in order to strengthen them through cross-examining the experience of others and take advantage of the knowledge and experiences, to draw attention to and apply best practices in this field.
