Center of Excellence (COE)

The 57th session of the APO Governing Body Meeting in Bangkok in April 2015 approved the establishment of the APO COE on Public-sector Productivity (PSP) in the Philippines. Under the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), the center supports the APO in promoting and implementing PSP-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. The COE on PSP has initiated projects to help member country governments improve their performance and productivity such as research, assessment of needs for future capacity-building initiatives, training of PSP practitioners so that they can lead capacity-building initiatives, introducing new knowledge, and continuing review of the APO PSP Framework. 

The COE was formally launched in November 2015 with the involvement of various stakeholders including those from the public sector. The launch highlighted the commitment of the Philippine government to supporting the APO COE on PSP under the auspices of the DAP. 

Specifically, the COE-PSP has the following objectives

1. Promote the advancement of the public sector productivity movement in Asia and the Pacific region;

2. Help address common and critical issues on public sector productivity performance besetting the APO member countries;

3. Foster cutting-edge research, facilitate training and knowledge-sharing, and support outreach to APO member countries in raising productivity of the public sector organizations in the region; and

4. Serve as a hub of a ‘web of collaborators’ (physical or virtual) on innovation and productivity in the public sector.

The designation of a COE is a key strategy of the APO to develop NPOs such as the DAP in areas where NPOs possess unique strengths and expertise. The DAP is a government corporation with more than four decades of dedicated support in training senior government officials to be highly effective, conducting strategic and innovative research in public sector efficiency, providing technical assistance along the lines of public sector efficiency and national productivity, and serving as nexus for catalyzing the exchange of ideas and expertise in productivity and development in Asia and the Pacific. 

Through the DAP, the COE-PSP has initiated projects that would help member countries improve their public sector performance and productivity. Among the activities include research, needs assessment, capacity building initiatives, introduction of new knowledge, and continuing review of the APO Public Sector Productivity Framework.

To know more about the COE-PSP Program, visit the website: https://coe-psp.dap.edu.ph/