This step reflects the UAE government’s vision and the Ministry of Interior’s strategy to achieve sustainable development and ensure a smooth transition to e-government.
Major General Khalifa Hareb Al Khaili, Acting Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior for Naturalisation, Residency and Ports Affairs, said: “Based on the police leadership’s directives to upgrade the level of professional work and scientific research in the area of naturalisation, residency and ports work at both the national and regional levels, the Emirates Institute of Naturalisation and Residency has adopted an integrated e-project to make good use of the up to 165 training programmes adopted and implemented by the United Nations and to design national e-programmes.” He explained that the inaugural phase of the project included preparing the main e-training centre at the Emirates Institute of Naturalisation and Residency, as well as forming a team of national professional trainers accredited by the United Nations as experts in e-training.
For his part, Dr Hatem Ali, Regional Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries said: “Through the existing partnership between UNODC and the UAE, represented by the Ministry of Interior, we signed a work and partnership agreement with the Emirates Institute of Naturalisation and Residency in order to provide law enforcement officers in the UAE with the United Nations’ advanced training methodology. This can be achieved through e-training, remote training, and assisting the institute in establishing an advanced e-training section that will be in charge of a number of national officers that are enrolled in the UN ‘Training of Trainers’ programme, in addition to employing national experts to manage this specialised section, which aims as part of its second phase, to establish e-training centres affiliated to the institute across the UAE. This section will also develop its e-programmes in Arabic, according to priorities and national characteristics.
Dr Hatem Ali also added that the United Nations’ Office has dispatched one of its specialised experts, in line with the MoU, to assist the institute in taking the previous measures during the next phase. He explained that that the main goal of this valuable partnership with the Emirates Institute is not only to help implement this advanced methodology or train national experts.
During the second phase, both parties will cooperate in order to position the institute as a regional institute specialised in implementing the UN methodology for e-training; and this is considered a first-of-its-kind achievement in the Gulf region.
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Quelle/Source: The Gulf Today, 18.05.2014
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